It’s Official: EU Adopts Rules to Force Replaceable Phone Batteries
The EU has officially adopted new rules requiring manufacturers to use replaceable batteries in smartphones. While sealed smartphones are the norm today, it wasn’t that many years ago when virtually all smartphones had a panel on the back that could be easily opened. Most phones had easily replaceable batteries and often had a slot for an extra memory card. Manufacturers have since moved to sealed handsets and non-replaceable batteries in an effort to produce sleeker designs. The EU wants to wind back the clock to those more user-friendly designs. The…
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