A new EU law will require all mobile devices to have user-replaceable batteries by 2027. In this episode we take a look at the law, it’s consequences and right to repair.
A new EU law will require all mobile devices to have user-replaceable batteries by 2027. In this episode we take a look at the law, it’s consequences and right to repair.
I think it was apple, but someone claimed that removable batteries would make the phones thicker and more expensive to make.
Maybe it would make them thicker, but the phones didn’t get any cheaper with the removal of the headphone jack. I don’t need top tier cameras, so let’s meet in the middle.
Also, how much thinner do phones need to be? They are already so thin they don’t even advertise that as a selling point anymore.
I want a reasonably thin and light smartphone, not one that is paper thin and light as air. If manufacturers want to boast of their technological prowess, they should enhance their technology to solve environmental problems rather than thinness and lightness.
These days some phones are so thin they are even awkward to hold… specially when they have the rounded display around the edges, sometimes I press the touchscreen edges by mistake when holding it. And thin profiles make the cameras stick out, exposing them to damage.
I always end up buying a thick & rugged case anyway… the thinness even makes me afraid it’ll snap/crash easily. I never understood the thin obsession… I actually was ok with the size of the thick nokia phones from the 90s.