Samsung’s removable-battery smartphone is coming to the US for $499

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We’ve already seen Samsung’s new rugged smartphone with a removable battery, the Galaxy XCover Pro, because the company revealed it on its Finnish website before taking it down. Today, though, the company is officially announcing the phone and that will cost $499 when it’s available in the US in the first half of 2020. Samsung says it’s working with Verizon to bring the phone to market.
For that $499 price, you’re getting a phone with a swappable battery that’s a meaty 4,050mAh, and the phone even supports 15W fast charging, as well as with special docks that use pogo pins. The XCover Pro is intended to be used by workers in industrial settings or out in the field, so that huge battery should theoretically let workers use their phones…

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