Hello Eugene and list! I think the jury is still out when it comes to the best possible solution to what is best to have for a battery! The Pacmate use to have a replaceable battery but they went back to the internal battery similar to what the BN presently has. Keep in mind the Blazie style notetakers used the internal battery which is not user replaceable. I am on the Braille Sense list and some have had connection problems with their battery. When this happened, their unit would sometimes go to default settings. They sometimes had to slide a battery in twice before it would work and charge properly. Of course, someone with a Braille Sense could buy an extra battery to be sure but one must find a way to keep it charged or alternate between the two batteries. I think having a good battery connection plus minimizing the chance of massive lost data is the issue here. The braille sense also has a backup internal battery which functions when the larger outside battery is removed. What happens when that backup internal battery system fails? You could easily lose your data. You'd probably need to send it in to have the internal battery backup system replaced. Whenever a notetaker uses memory for storing data, this storage system is volatile! People have lost data for no apparent reason! Luckily, this has improved over the years. One should back up their data from time to time. The engineers at Humanware apparently feel the battery system they now use is the best way to keep down data loss! If the battery were to be changed, this would be a hardware change. The original battery in my classic unit almost made it to three years. I don't feel you have much to worry about. I believe you will get good use out of your battery before you need to send it in. A replaceable battery for the other unit is over a hundred dollars so does it really make much difference? It's that old saying that the other man's grass always looks greener. Perhaps someone from Humanware can comment on this but this is my take on the subject. I don't feel Humanware is intending to make our lives miserable! They probably feel they have the best battery system going for now!
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