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EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027

www.pcmag.com EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027

The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.

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Do security updates for a minimum of 5 years next
- Or just open source the drivers and we'll have all the updates forever.
Back to the good old times! :)
- Really pumped that one of the major things making phones obsolete after a few years will just be...gone!
Omfg

The EU is good for something.

Tho it's still a shame that it's not the customers demand that is making this happen.

Mandatary memory card support and physical SIM forever next.
- Why did manufacturers take these features away???
  
  So they can sell you another phone sooner.
  
  To make the phones "waterproof" which is funny because even tho phones are water "waterproof" manufactures won't warrenty them out if there's water damage. Doesn't make much sense to me.
Apple's gonna def overcharge for the replacements
- lol Apple
With how capable modern mobile CPUs are phones could really last a long time without feeling "so last generation" very fast. So the battery really often is the bottleneck and not having it be replaceable would really just be planned obsolescence with extra steps. It's good to hear some good news once in a while.
Good! Bring back keyboards too!
- I'll cum if I see a good phone with a keyboard again
Headline from 2028: Why You phone Dies When It Gets Wet
- They had waterproof smartphones before this idiocy of non-replacable batteries. Ten years ago!
  
  Just some examples:
  
  Sony Xperia Active (2011)
  
  Samsung Galaxy S5 (2014)
  
  Today's smartphones are built cheap. Sadly. Louis Rossmam explains this well.
  
  Waterproofing was more difficult with replaceable batteries. It was a feature you paid extra for.
- But there was phones from 2010s with removable batteries and water protection.
  
  And sony have some water resistant phones with removable batteries now
  
  Sony has removable batteries? I knew they still have memory cards... Gotta look into that
  
  It's more expensive to waterproof a phone with a removable battery. Yes, there were phones from the 2010s that were waterproof and had removable batteries, but that was a feature you had to pay extra for.
- Well, you should put the cover back on

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