In the US, replacing a Samsung phone battery is not any cheaper than iPhone, and likely you'll get the phone next day unless you show up at the repair shop at 8am. Apple store? Just walk in one and you'll get it done in 1-2 hours.

It looks like Apple would charge $89 to replace a battery in my iPhone 13 Pro. I tried to find the price Samsung would charge for my wife's S21 but I had no luck (their site and SEO is a disaster). Is it much less than $89?

I paid £85 to replace the battery in an iPhone Mini 3 weeks ago, and my S22 battery can be officially replaced for £80.

Here Timpsons provide the service outlets for Samsung, although that probably does not help you. But it is basically the same price.

You can get the S22 repaired with no loss of functionality for significantly less than that if you go to another repairer and even the official channel is cheaper despite the S22 having a bigger battery than the 13 Mini.

And that’s for battery. Just take a look at screen repair if you want to cry.

> even the official channel is cheaper

Samsung.com/uk says £79, so I don't agree with that.

Is this freedom? Man you need to go into some lengths just to power up your piece of equipment. Next step is to be required to provide some biometry just to use a wall socket for the sake of protecting some children from electrocuting.

I mean you could just get a Fairphone or any other Android with replaceable batteries/parts. At least with Android you do have this freedom of choice.