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It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

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[–] 62 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Its NOT just smartphones

Its damn near everything!

Electric cars, other electronics etc

Some are just not "user replacable" (such as a cars batteries)

this law will change all iPhones. It will also change all tablets, laptops, EVs, e-bikes, and anything else with a rechargeable battery

Headphones, gaming mice, gaminh controllers. Its gonna be great

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The big one at the moment - at least in the UK and IMHO - is disposable vapes. I see them everywhere, just tossed on the ground or at the side of the road. The reason I see them is because of their flashing blue LEDs still running, meaning there's at least a working battery and support circuitry in there. It's disgusting that something like that is tolerated. I'm hopeful that the requirement to have user-replacable batteries will eliminate them by making them uneconomical compared to standard vapes.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't understand why disposable vapes are even legal at all. I mean we banned friggin' plastic straws but this thing is fine?! Who even came up with such a terrible product in current times?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The EU by going after the self-mixing market. Bullshit like allowing duties on liquid that doesn't even contain nicotine so you end up paying through your nose for flavoured glycerine/propylene glycol mix. Limiting nicotine-containing liquids to 20mg/ml max, and 10ml bottles at that, while there were never any issues with what was legal here (Germany) under ordinary toxic substance laws (without being a chemist): 50mg/ml in any size you bloody want (usually 100ml because it degrades once you open it).

    Before those laws the market was largely modular systems, tank and mod separate, plenty of replaceable batteries, with all that bullshit added on vaping sensibly became so expensive that people went "meh, can just as well use a pre-built".

    The UK actually were the sensible ones in that area, but I guess the market shift reached them by sheer force of Chinese production capacity.

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