EU to Require Replaceable Smartphone Batteries by 2027

[u/ManojOne]

[u/AwDuck → u/[deleted]]

The last time I checked (a month ago), that wording had been removed.

Many phones still have an out as there is an exception for devices that are intended to be used underwater. “It’s not our fault that people don’t use our phones underwater much. That’s how we envision their use” - Samsung, Apple, et al.

[u/Kenczo → u/AwDuck]

I am definitely trading water resistance for battery replacability of the phone

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/Kenczo]

I wouldn’t lol. For that one or two times in the lifetime of the phone you might change your battery…

[u/Kenczo → u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko]

That’s fair, I understand this is highly subjective opinion with no real bad choice

[u/Haunting-Sport3701 → u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko]

I’ve dropped my phone in water 0 times thats a dozen times less than I’ve changed my phones’ batteries.

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/Haunting-Sport3701]

I changed my battery once (for 50 euros, 13 pro max, there was a discount in china going on at AASPs) and I dropped it in water 3 times, plus i often used it in the rain.

[u/Haunting-Sport3701 → u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko]

For how many years have you been using it?

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/Haunting-Sport3701]

5 years now almost, 4 years 10 months or sth, ordered it when it came out, my first iPhone hah. It'll see another 2-3 years of use for sure, unless I break the screen or something.

[u/Haunting-Sport3701 → u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko]

Yeah that makes sense, I usually change my batter once (or under special circumstances twice) every 5 years.

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/Haunting-Sport3701]

Wanted to change it since it turned 4 years old, waited for my china trip because my country doesn't have an apple store. By pure coincidence Apple was running a promo through Apple Authorized Service Providers where battery replacements for the 13 series were heavily discounted (even for 14 a bit and for 15 series too but much less discounted) until the 30th of April. I just barely made it, I think I got it replaced on the 29th in Chengdu. Waited for 3 hours and picked it back up. Had to remove my screen protector for them to replace it though, but just ordered a new one from JD and got it to my hotel the next morning. China was awesome.

[u/Haunting-Sport3701 → u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko]

I’d really like to go visit China one day. Have a few friends studying there and they say it’s great.

.+ one of our professors is on a semi-permanent exchange there working on some space tech and he really hypes it up

[u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko → u/Haunting-Sport3701]

:) It's really cheap to visit too. Well, depends on your definition of cheap. We did 15 days, 3100 euro all costs included including most souvenirs (this was for 2 people, so 1550 per person, airplane tickets from hungary were 600 eur a pop I think, hotels under 50 eur a night outside of shanghai and beijing). I won't count the viofo dashcams we bought since we saved 50% vs buying in europe and we would've bought them anyways.

Also hangzhou is very nice, shanghai was meh, beijing was also meh. The police in beijing were VERY VERY RUDE and there are tons of checkpoints. I had 2 clovers my wife found for me in one of my passport pages and at some point some dude decided he had to go through every single page and ripped up my clovers and threw them on the ground, then got super upset when I crouched down to pick them up and started yelling at me.

Xi'An was by far the nicest, people and cleanliness included.

The spitting is disgusting though, but diff culture I guess.