There are two decisions manufacturers take when designing new portable gadgets that make little sense to consumers. The first is a continued push to make devices thinner rather than increasing the ...

It was normal for phones to have removable batteries up until early 2010. Even laptop manufacturers gradually stopped making devices with removable batteries. Credits: iStock Apple started the trend ...

While you may agree to disagree, there are only two types of smartphones — the ones with removable battery and others with a non-removable battery. And it’s only obvious to get confused among the two ...

Once upon a time smartphones had memory card slots, headphone jacks and removable batteries that could easily be swapped in and out of smartphones. But that changed when Apple launched the iPhone in ...

These days, there are many laptops such as MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Ultrabooks that are designed to house non-removable and non-replaceable batteries. The non-removable batteries are becoming the ...

Apple got the ire of its users when it released the original iPhone with a fixed, non-removable battery. The mainstream media and blogosphere (myself included) barbecued Apple for the omission as ...

Apple’s MacBook Air and latest 17-inch MacBook Pro laptop have non-removable batteries. Asus, maker of the popular Eee netbook computers, plans to follow suit with its 1008HA model, due out mid-year ...