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>>wicket+(OP)
What I don't get (plz help me) is why out of a sudden this vendors close up their phones and why is Google going this way? What's their intend?

>>frankz+Bx
It's not sudden, and it's about control. You probably don't remember a time when you could switch/remove batteries from your phone. All manufacturers removed this ability.

>>verisi+5A
I have a Volla Phone running Ubuntu Touch. In order to insert my SIM and SD cards I had to take off the back cover (which is intended and I just had to pull on a small gap in a corner of the device) which also made it very obvious that it's easy to take out the battery should I have the need to swap it out.