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This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Wispy2891 to c/technology

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This is awesome! For only $450 you can get a machine that can automatically swap battery packs placed on bulky $120 phone cases.

You don't need to plug a cable in your phone anymore, your over engineered machine can swap battery packs for you

I never imagined that I would live this long to see the future

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[–] billwashere 10 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I mean a phone case with a removable battery? Yeah that’s cool. Already been done though … a very long time ago.

https://www.wired.com/2011/05/third-rail-case-adds-removable-battery-to-iphone/

But I don’t need a machine to take out the battery and replace it. It’s just something else to take up room on my nightstand and eventually break. I’d bet they somehow figure out a way to make it a subscription service too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I worked at Apple for a while and I can see a use case for this.

It was a little annoying to have to change your iPhone with the card reader attached (for taking payment and stuff in the shop floor) when it was out of battery. You would have to go upstairs and grab another one off charge, sign in, two factor, and then go downstairs to carry on. Only this one won’t pair with the card reader so you gotta do it again.

If you could just do this like the toaster then time saved would be a lot across a company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was thinking the same for a similar use case at my job that would nearly cut the number of phones we own in half, but we don't need the stupid toaster to remove and replace the battery. I'm a goddamn cripple and can do that myself.

[–] Valmond 1 points 5 hours ago

"Do you want to charge the free 20%?"

[–] bitjunkie 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah I had one of those charger cases for my S7