New EU regulation will require phones, portable gaming devices to have user replaceable batteries starting in 2027

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LurkerJ said:

Premium smartphones are essentially exempt because they're all waterproof (or are they considered water resistant?) and have high quality batteries.

Do people buy a new phone every few years because the battery is dying or because it's the device they use the most every single day and want to switch it up? I buying a new iPhone soon and selling/giving away my Galaxy, it has nothing to do with the battery

Waterproof doesn't just mean protected from "water splashing on the phone and being submerged for half an hour 1M deep" (IP67 and IP68 standards), but for devices “that are specifically designed to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance, in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion.” , so this doesn't apply to most consumer phones apart from speacial rugged ones, which are designed for this possibility. Action cams could claim this - but those in general already come with exchangeable batteries, so they're not really affected, either.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 16 July 2023