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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:

The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

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[–] SharpMaxwell@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (73 children)

I have seen countless videos on tiktok of people being against this move, and my question is why? why wouldn't anyone want to be able to extend the life of their expensive devices, why wouldn't people want easily repairable batteries that take less than 5 minutes to swap out?

the only argument ive seen against this is "OOH BUT BUT BUT THE AESTHETICS OF THE PHONE" who cares? function should always be over looks. and if anything it will end the trend of phones being glassy slabs and bring some innovation and new designs to the table. which will be interesting to see.

[–] pragma@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (22 children)

What about aesthetics? They used to have removable back covers before and there wasn't any seam visible. This is not even a valid argument imho.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Battery pull was always a great way to unfuck a frozen phone

[–] cmhe@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you have against waiting a day or two, not being able to use the phone, for the battery to run out so that you can reboot it? Simply removing the battery seems like to much effort. /s

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly that is mostly solved, all have some mechanism to reset it even if is completely frozen. Plus nowadays is not a that common occurrence.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, it doesn't happen often. Those mechanisms are often just some software running in some microcontroller, which can also fail and manifactorers like to cheapen out where possible.

It did happen to me maybe 2 times in >5 years, where not even long pressing power button helps. I was traveling by rail the last time and luckly had my ticket physically.

[–] Proweruser@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phones have a hardware interrupt. Just hold the power button for 30 to 45 seconds.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I had issues with my phone (OP8P) where that didn't helped.

I pressed the power button for minutes and the phone stayed unresponsive, only letting it run out of energy solved it.

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