**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Apr 19 03:00:06 2018 Apr 19 05:54:47 My friend wants me to recommend a “smartphone” that he can get subsidised by his cellular provider, Fido in Canada. Here is the list of smartphones currently offered by Fido: https://www.fido.ca/nac/#/choose-phone You have to keep scrolling down to see the complete list. First of all, does anyone recognise any of these models as having an easily removable battery? The LG G5 meets this requirement but I only see the LG G6 and some other newer models in Apr 19 05:54:47 this list. Obviously all Apple products are eliminated based upon this hardware requirement. Some (most?) recent Samsung and LG models are also eliminated. I would ask Fido customer service but they are closed for today (Wednesday). Apr 19 05:56:39 gsmarena.com might show you if the battery is removable. i'm on N900 so probably can't even open that page Apr 19 06:02:08 I know how to check if a given model has an easily removable battery but I was hoping that I could partially outsource/crowdsource this process to filter the options faster than if I have to check all candidates by myself. Apr 19 06:05:54 I know that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and later are eliminated. Same for Galaxy S6 and later. If I recall correctly, the Galaxy S4 and maybe Galaxy S5 meet this requirement. LG G6 is eliminated. If I recall correctly, the LG V30 is eliminated too but the LG V20 is not. Apr 19 06:22:01 I forgot to mention that I also want an integrated 3.5-mm analog audio connector and an internal removable non-volatile memory (flash) card reader/writer, which eliminates Pixel 2 *. Apr 19 06:33:06 The infobox for a model of smartphone on the English-language Wikipedia really should have a mandatory field to say if the battery is easily removable instead of leaving this information as optional to be included in the single field for the battery because fanpersons or other persons who seek to remove negative/monolithic/non-user-serviceable aspects of the design of the product seem to remove “Non-removable” from the value of the battery field. Apr 19 06:43:21 Huawei P10 seems to be eliminated because all of the variants I have checked on http://phonedb.net/ so far appear to have a non-removable battery. Apr 19 07:29:28 I manually did the research by myself. Apparently Samsung Galaxy J3 Prime and LG K4 (2017) are the only models not eliminated by the requirement for an easily removable battery but neither of these models are high-end. Apr 19 07:30:04 i would still choose n900 over any of those Apr 19 07:41:54 I will not and neither will my friend for whom I am researching this stuff. Apr 19 08:54:58 :) Apr 19 09:42:02 good morning sicelo! Apr 19 09:42:10 hello **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Apr 20 03:00:01 2018