Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo

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• callmemagnus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, following the law not Nintendo

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Following Nintendo as in “removable only in EU, fuck the rest of the world”.

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• Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My mice have always had the grip fall off long before I experienced any battery issues.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mice don’t need sealed in batteries. What the hell…

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• seathru@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Calling it now. These “replaceable batteries” are going to be propitiatory and marked up like printer cartridges.

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  • AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So this is not the first time Logitech will have had a mouse with a replaceable battery. The Logitech G7 had a swappable rechargeable battery and it was great.

    But yes it was a proprietary battery, but you only needed 2. One in the mouse and one in the recharge station. Swapping them out was basically the push of one button. I would love it if they went back to that sort of design.

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    • seathru@quokk.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve had lots with replaceable batteries. I really miss my G604. You could swap the 2 AA’s in about 10 seconds without even picking the mouse up.

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    • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Savage, but then a mouse would be uncharacteristically heavy with a standard barrel battery, right??. A button may work but nobody makes rechargeable buttons yet.

      I switched from my fancy pants Turtle Beach Elite 800X headset, the top brand before Astro A40 and Arctis Nova Pro released, to a SteelSeries Siberia 800. Going from a dodgy, dying-battery premium headset to a midrange that comes with two batteries and more can be purchased was a (quite literal) game changer. So I can attest to Steelseries being great. Side bonus the batteries were coincidentally interchangeable with a few brands of Nokia but can’t remember which ones.

      My point is, SteelSeries are a great brand and they make mice with interchangeable, AAA, batteries. Like the Rival 3

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I prefer mine with a cord. It looks like there are still plenty of wireless mice available that use AA batteries. Eneloop batteries work great for those.

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Take note everybody, these are the companies that care more about profits than their consumers.

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• golinux@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I absolutely refuse to buy any small gadgets using rechargeable batteries. I buy either wired, or using standard AA/AAA batteries.
  I am seeing the similar trend in pocket and tabletop radios, which is an absolute nonsense.

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  • Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And you can get rechargeable AA and AAA batteries

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    • golinux@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly! Using proprietary battery shapes and sealing them inside the devices benefits only the manufacturer - everybody else loses. I also can’t believe the bullshit excuses they use to justify this: “open designs can’t be waterproof” (yes, they can), “sealed cases are thinner and lighter” (by a fraction of measurement nobody can even appreciate in daily use), etc.

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate not living in Europe

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good, it’s a start.

  Now if only they manage to prove they’ll stop their spyware/bloatware bs I might consider buying something from them. But I’m not in a hurry.

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• errer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this even a large number of mice in the USA? Every wireless mouse I’ve bought has a normal battery…

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Only the very low end in my experience use AA or AAA. Which one do you have?

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