[adamgravitis]

I massively disagree with the importance of swappable batteries. While I suppose there are people who are pretty happy hauling around a bunch of batteries with them, I haven't considered such a thing since camcorders were cool. A big part of keeping technology mainstream is to not require a utility belt.

(n.b. I don't mind if they're user-removable for replacement once they've totally died, but this also seems to have become rather rare for what I assume are manufacturing reasons)

[jschwartzi]

I took advantage of this when my phone's original battery began to swell. With a new phone I suppose I would have to send it in and pay hundreds of dollars to get it fixed. Instead I bought 4 replacement batteries off of Amazon for $6.00 each and fixed it myself.