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All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU::undefined

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This needs to be sooner, they 100% have the ability to adhere to this law after the next generation

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So, would it be possible to get an eu model with any chance of working here in the U.S? I love a removable battery

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hell yes!! Step 1 of who knows towards better repairability for one of the most complex technologies accessible to most of the people on the planet.

Hopefully these companies will realize that it's just easier to make these changes globally and trickle this down to other countries, but we'll have to see. I personally would want the US to continue this trend, like with what we saw in the Agricultural Right to Repair Act. Maybe an Electronics Right to Repair Act?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

fuck yeah!! eu rules!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Next up: SCREENS.

I long for the day that a cracked screen becomes a simple swap-out fix.

Especially since so many corporate shitlords seem to intentionally "engineer obsolescence" by making them not very durable to even minor drops with reasonable cases (or various other bizarre things, like pets jumping up while you're taking a picture or similar)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Speaking of this topic, can someone recommend some "free" phone, free as in speech, with disk storage of at least 0.75 TB (with or without sd card)?

I wanted to get a pixel and install graphene on it, but the max storage there is 256 GB, which is miserably low, with no sd card. I'm considering Fairphone. Any suggestions?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Kinda late now, we used to have battery problems, they would lose performance after 1-2 years, but not anymore. It would be better if they forced manufacturers to provide easy glass and touchscreen replacement which tend to fail much before batteries

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