European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
Good, the biggest reason I have to buy a new phone is the battery effectively dying. I've already decided that when my current phone needs to be charged at least twice a day then I'm buying a phone with replaceable parts, something like Fairphone. From experience my phone has at least 2, maybe even 3, years left so maybe by that time I have a lot more options to choose from.
Batteries used to be considered to be a part that needs to be replaced as part of regular maintenance, because they deteriorate pretty fast compared to the other parts. The fact that anyone ever thought batteries should not be replaceable astonishes me.
The batteries last longer now than the phone is usable with newer versions of the OS.
Apple got caught throttling older phones
This is great news!
It's always been absolutely crazy to me that a normally easy to replace part that has a known short lifespan would be moved deep in the bowels of the phone where you can't get to it.
I'm all for this. I don't think I'll use it but I appreciate it will be an option for those who may wish to use it.
I'd love to see it this would actually give some phones a longer lifespan. Especially for people like me that "charge" their phone 24/7 because of USB-Tethering.
Remember that LG phone where you could slide the entire bottom off and it had a battery in it like a hdd cage. That would be totally doable.
No more thin phones then?
Why would a replaceable battery require a thicker phone?
Now that you say it true why would it
any good reason for having a super thin phone?
I knew someone was gonna say that but of course I want it to be thin when I have it in my pocket the whole day. I have a case on my phone that makes it thicker and you can already kinda see it through my pants which doesn't really look good