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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Lithium polymer batteries tend to have odd shapes to fit around the bulkier components and maintain thinness. Some gadgets actually split their batteries into two parts. Non standard all the way.
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That's a poor excuse. Those designs were made that way because the battery is not easily replaceable and they didn't have to be designed to have an easily replaceable battery. The designs could have been made to make the batteries easy to replace. When you get into some of the devices, you see that the battery is very easy to replace. It's getting into it that's the hard part.
We are throwing away a lot of electronics that would still be in use if they had a user replaceable battery. The thing is, even if we no longer use these older device, we might be able to give them to someone else to use. But with the battery needing replaced and no way to replace it, it just gets thrown away.