@ ClieOS: you argue that the rational solution to the non-swappable/replaceable battery (semantics!) is to pay to ship it off to China, using insured post (as my X5 could get lost), to then pay for Fiio's employees to replace it at a yet to be disclosed price, and obviously also have to pay Fiio the cost of return insured postage from China back to Europe for their doing so. Hmmm, don't you think that the costs of doing all that make dumping it on ebay to some sucker a far more rational way of 'solving' the problem which we all know will occur, of its battery no longer working efficiently after much regular usage?
Ok, CLieOS, if you don't mind, I will, when the day comes, call you on that.
If you allow, I will do as you suggest and report back, when the day comes. In other words, I will attempt to do just what you've suggested is a good solution, after I buy an X5. And I will indeed report back here, as I trust it is within forum rules to do so, of my experiences and also my costs in doing so. You say that that is the solution, so let's just see how good a solution that will be...
By the way, I'm also wondering if you suggest that I do the same with my X3? I'm sure its battery will drain first given how much I'm continuing to use it.
FWIW, I would submit that your solution, with respect, is an unnecessarily expensive and protracted way around a problem which will occur to all of us who use our portable devices enough. It is still submitted that the far easier way of dealing with a dwindling battery life is for manufacturers of portable devices to allow consumers to use easily bought and user-swappable batteries. But apparently, we'll just have to accept that the X5 will, when playing music files, draw so much current from its batteries, that we must only trust in the factory supplied battery to do the job properly. Hmmmm.
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As it has mentioned various times before, the battery is replaceable, just not swappable. It is not using an off-the-shelf smartphone battery since there is no smartphone battery that has large enough capacity (*Keep note that X5 battery is 76% larger the S3 / DX50 battery and 42% larger than S4 battery. Assuming X5 has 10 hours of playtime, you will get only 5.7 hours out S3 battery and 7 hours out of S4's battery). So if you want to replace the battery, you can contact FiiO and they will sell you one and you can replace it yourself, assuming you have the right tool and skill - or you can send it back and pay them to replace one for you.
The only way of using a smartphone battery is to accept a shorter operation time and a larger housing, There is no pleasing between maximizing battery capacity while keep the size down and easy battery swappability, FiiO just chooses one over the other at the end. That's why James said that if you really want to extend your battery life further, use a power bank. If you are willing to carry a secondary battery, then carrying a power bank shouldn't be that difficult to overcome. Not to mention most power bank should offer higher capacity than swappable battery anyway.
