It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:
The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.
How do they define “removable”? Most batteries can be removed with enough effort. Good initiative though.
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Article 38:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-2-2023-INIT/en/pdf
Does that mean manufacturers will be able to get away with shit like this?
Did they ship it free of charge? If so, I guess yes then
Also, some very specialized tools are commercially available. In fact, i’m not sure what kind of tool is so special that you can’t buy it at all, outside of science and advanced measurements and such.
Basically every tool for repairing an iPhone (especially to fix the part serialization)
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I think it just requires common tools, I do not think it’s required to be hot swappable without any tools. But so far the final version of The legislation has not been written. The language you so far in reports is pretty vague.
I think what they’re trying to do is prevent people from using multiple different types of screws or proprietary screws. Or making it impossible to get to the battery without first removing other parts like the motherboard or the speakers etc…
I think they want to make it so anybody with a screwdriver can remove a battery if they get enough time. I don’t think the requiring that the battery’s literally be hot swappable although I would like to see it this budget phones go back to that.
Hopefully we can see some phones come to market without gobs of adhesive holding them together. It’d be great if I could actually open my phone with just a screwdriver. I truly don’t mind seeing screws on my device, especially since it almost instantly gets tossed into a case anyways.
Apple: Your honor, everyone has an iScrew and a MagicHeat and an iOpener and a MagicPryer. And if they don’t, we even offer a full bundle for only $300! These are very common tools.
First sentence of article preview mentions removable and replaceable