Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

TL;DR

  • The European Council has ended its adoption procedure for rules related to phones with replaceable batteries.
  • By 2027, all phones released in the EU must have a battery the user can easily replace with no tools or expertise.
  • The regulation intends to introduce a circular economy for batteries.
  • 0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6@kbin.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    Hopefully this doesn’t go the way of charging cables and we have a different battery shape for every phone… Otherwise a 2040 regulation will be to standardize battery shape(s)

    • Vega@feddit.it
      2·
      1 year ago

      Battery shape (and connector) will sadly still be a thing for a long time, and usually it’s for engineering reasons, so I don’t really think it will be possible to standardize it

      • DeanFogg@lemm.ee
        02·
        1 year ago

        We really should just adopt the “best one” that becomes the standard. Only change it with significant advancement

        • richardwonka@lemmy.one
          2·
          1 year ago

          There isn’t one “best one”. Always depends on requirements, which vary by device, underlying technology and use case.

        • Dojan@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          It depends on the layout of the phone though. Size of camera module, placement of fingerprint sensors, other sensors/modules, heat sinks. You name it, really.

          As such the batteries tend to be oddly shaped, and even spread out in different places to get as much battery in as possible.

          The “best one” differs from phone to phone.