this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
2448 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

60044 readers
2831 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Great! This "water-resistance" bullshit is the biggest bigtech scam ever, it's insane how they almost killed repairability in the name of "water-resistance", that scam should have never been allowed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love water resistance. You don't need to get rid of water resistance for removal batteries, we had both, together, at the same time, before. Samsung s5 active.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As an owner of an S5 and S5 active, I had to say that I loved those phones.

It's 100% imperative that some of the people in my circle have waterproof phones. My BIL sat down in the lake and forgot he had put his phone in his swim trunks pocket. Instakill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My phones are constantly wet (not like that, degenerates) and IP68 has saved me more money than repairability.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's just a blatant lie that a phone with a removable battery can't be waterproof without being massive. I had a galaxy s5 active years ago that was, and the difference in thickness between that and the standard one was negligible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Phones are really at the point where there's not really much point being thinner - hell most people put protective cases on phones anyway that dramatically increase the thickness, I know I do!

If they could instead build the added protection a case gives you into the phone, on top of a headphone jack and a microSD slot I'd be set - we need a Panasonic toughphone or something.

BRING BACK THE STRENGTH OF THE NOKIA 3310 - I WANT A SMARTPHONE AS INDESTRUCTIBLE AS THAT!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure there were water resistant S class Samsungs with snapon back covers. Around 5th/6th generation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There were, I had every odd Samsung flagship phone since the S3, and two of them (S5 and S7 or S7 and S9) were waterproof with removable backs to change the battery (and SD card)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Never forget the Samsung S5 Active was water resistant for 1m/30min and still had a removable battery. They're pissing on our legs & telling us it's raining -- but the worst part is the majority of people believe them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The companies should try making water resistant devices. But the repairability or ease of changing batteries should not be neglected. Maybe another model that is a bit further expensive, covering the cost of making it water tight, should be also sold?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If there was an another model with removable battery they would intentionally make it a lot more expensive even if the production cost isn't that different. That defeats the whole point of doing all of this if you give them any chance for them to exploit something. I am just happy that this is happening and I am jealous this isn't in my country.