KISS singer Paul Stanley once said "the best thing about being rich is never having to worry about money". I think a similar theory applies to batteries and cellphones.
Earlier this week I was put into a situation where my phone's battery was almost dead (mostly due to being in areas with poor reception) and there was no convenient way to charge it. Long story short, I needed to get at least 17 hours out of a 12-hour battery. Had I still been using an iPhone or any other phone with a non-removable battery, I would've been up the creek without a paddle.
Thanks to the Samsung Galaxy Note's spare battery and standalone charger (an accessory which costs less than most quality iPhone cases), I was able to swap out my battery and go, without dragging a charger around in my pocket and searching high and low for an available receptacle.
It's for this reason I've concluded that if a phone lacks a removable battery (and doesn't at the very least, ship with one of those battery pack cases), it's not a phone at all - it's a toy. All the worse if the phone now uses a proprietary connector that's nearly impossible to find outside of giant electronics stores. It seems crazy to me that the same company that prides itself on building laptops with amazing battery life is willing to compromise their phones, all for the sake of shaving a couple of millimeters off the overall thickness.
Seems to me the market for an 18-hour phone would be bigger than the market for a 12-hour laptop.
