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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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!