The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception

Chris Remington@beehaw.org · 19 hours ago

The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 hours ago

They’re possible, but nowhere near as easy. Every time you pop that back off you wear the water protection. Within a year of use my S5 was not IP67 anymore. And all those warnings about it not being fully sealed? Nah. I’ll take a glued shut phone with glue that isn’t insane over that any day.

The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception

The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception

Phone batteries will need to be easily removable from next year — though new Apple CEO John Ternus isn't fully convinced about repairability