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Of course, some of us have had a Fairphone for over ten years which has always had user-replaceable parts. I'm only on my second one, a V4. The Fairphone V1 became obsolete because its version of Android wasn't updated & apps stopped working but mine had two new batteries in 7 years for £20 each.

We need to turn away from planned obsolescence once and for all.

Why can’t we have this in the US? Answer: Republicans

Making the batteries standardized, easy and affordable to replace would mitigate this issue, but obviously it is not in the manufacturers interest to do so.

While that is true, the range of these cars continues to decrease over their lifespan, and battery health is difficult to assess and therefore guarantee. People should have the option to replace these batteries at reasonable prices. Obviously, manufacturers prefer that they don't.

I know that, I think Khelben does as well but is being deliberately disigenuous...

I'm glad you brought this up. The technology already exists for them to recycle the batteries and repurpose them back into either the grid or back in manufacturing process for new electric vehicles. It's just a matter of choice.

Bloody EU... Making things better for consumers... 😏

Brilliant.

to be fair, there was never a really good excuse to not have removale batteries. except for savin a few millimeters..

People over profit

If our congress people are smart they would put this in with the next tax break for the rich.

The Right To Repair is pretty important. Next to this the period for security updates is far too short specially when you don't need the latest and greatest hardware you can maintain much longer I often refurbish myself and my current mobile can still last for years but updates till Nov 2025 🥴

Another reason we should rejoin! FFS...

not sure why they thought anyone wanted phone bodies thinner than the cameras could be.

good. what about software updates? an important point of obsolescence.

Think greedy US corporations will follow this reasonable policy? Their priority is - MORE PROFIT.

How are these terms being defined? Longer lasting is incredibly vague. User replaceable how easily? Do you have to have it so you can pop the back off and swap it out or can you require tools?

Hopefully the repairability index will be standardised too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repaira...

The #UK has opted out. 🇪🇺 A third country.

YES. I type from an old phone with a cracked screen and a dying battery - maybe in the future I can just fix these things without learning phone surgery first

That is so overdue, worldwide. Is the US Gov't listening? 🤷

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The difference between capitalism and common sense.

OMG. No wonder Trump and the the Tech Bros are raging against the EU. This will also help curb waste. This is not before time.

Oh Apple's gonna love this

Back to the future 🫶

That's good governance.

I took my working Apple Mac to the Genuis Bar at the Apple store for a minor issue. They refused to look at it because it’s over seven years old. #apple

more similar to ram being soldered into the apple chipsets now and not the cable thing. the cable thing is more like the charger thing which was good btw but they were basically planning on swapping anyway because lightning was at the end of its life cycle in ~2022 but they were dragging their feet.

I don’t remember that. All of their phones charge faster over cable than they do wirelessly. The current iPhone supports 25W wirelessly, and 40W over a USB C cable.

They weirdly enough released a phone that doesn’t wirelessly charge this year, so that whole USB-C issue has really just gone away once they were left with no choice. And everything was fine.

Another example of why i'm so happy I moved to the EU.

They always lead the way.

They need to include ongoing security updates for that 10 years.

My Samsung update and my phone immediately charging extremely slowly, l am sure we're purely coincidental.

Great news.

Canada should do this.

ooooh but how are the electronic and 'phone companies supposed to make obscene profits.....

YEESSSSS!

They should go further and repeal the anti-circumvention laws....

So Apple will make these phones for Europe and not the US where it wants people to buy a new phone every 3 years.

I can't remember when was the last time I saw "user-replacable" battery phone or will be able to see here.

Eu is soon the only bulwark against corporate greed left in the world.

Eliminate corporate personhood. Planned obsolescence is a product of privatization. Privatization should be unconstitutional based on profits in the form of planned obsolescence.

Corporate greed's worst enemy: spare parts and manuals.

They used to come with those

Got all excited for a minute. Then remembered 2016 happened. Darn it.

Reason I want out of the US #... Wait, I lost count a while ago. Lots. Reason # Lots.

Available in the UK and had been for years: Fairphone. Modular, replaceable parts, no conflict minerals. Switch to fair. Switch to The Fairphone (Gen. 6). share.google/eSaCJziR1oyW...

They user in some great changes 😊

Canada - step the fuck up.

Long, long overdue. The ‘right to repair’ should apply to a much wider range of goods.

Remember when our cell phones had removable/replaceable batteries? Now they don’t. Progress?

Why can't we have nice things like this in the US?

I want user replaceable usb charging port.

Planned obsolescence makes me insane. It's theft.

That only matters if you're changing phones frequently. But in a world where your battery could be replaced for 10 years that doesn't have to be the case.

Leave it to the EU to protect consumers over corporations. Wish we could get the same here in the USA, but here it's always corporate profits (and their political contributions) over consumers almost every time.

The US will probably ban those phones because they are logical.

This is why the US tech bro $billionaires want to undermine and destabilize the EU and NATO They want unfettered control of policy wealth and political influence

We need that in the US. We're being so willingly fleeced, it's disgusting.

That is called the EU cyber resilience act. This act requeres a service period with safety updates. Now a on volentaire base, but if "Brussels " is not happy with the markt they will go " full commie" and will demand a minimal service time.

Why in the hell do we let the Corporate Overlords dictate what the hell we need and want? They, the corporations, know batteries will eventually die and have made it almost impossible to replace them. It is way better for their bottom line if we buy a new item! This is 🐂 💩!

That’s great, for them. We never get to have nice things like this, cause you know, capitalism. 💵

Go out and look at your lawn mower. Or snowblower - or car. You’ll find a sticker saying it conforms to California Emmisions standards. When a significant market sets a standard, it’s easier for a manufacturer to just do it. There are 450m people in the EU

Lobe pattern ones - I have some with a tool kit I bought from iFixit. Needed them to take the back off of a MacBook Pro to change the SSD. That’s something else that is stuck in place these days too !

I'd completely forgotten we used to be able to do that way back then

My old Windows phone had a user replaceable battery 🔋. It was a Nokia Lumia 950 Windows 10.

I remember when we had a Consumer Protection Agency that actually DID stuff.

Another W from the EU

Nice!

God's teeth, yes - I could do repairs on my first car (a '71 Chevy Nova) but my current vehicle? I'm lucky I can change the battery on the thing. STOP making stuff that doesn't last, can't be repaired - it's beyond stupid, it's suicidal.

The 2027 Battery Mandate is the end of "Sealed Glass Sandwiches." By 2026, manufacturers are frantic. Designing for 10-year parts availability and user-swappability kills thinness and water-resistance "hacks." It forces a move from disposable luxury to long-term utility. True sustainability.

Sounds great but what about support for the android or ioS version, as soon as there's no support anymore businesses won't let you use their app on your device.

Wow imagine a government working for the people instead of a few billionaires!

Yay!

Good. The only acceptable designed lifetime is "forever".

You can have any colour you want, so long as it's gold.

yes!

Good. It's time to start d*ck punching the oligarchs

After 10 years, force them to allow aftermarket parts too from 3rd parties. I have maybe $10k worth of things older than 10 years that I would love to fix and would otherwise still be serviceable.

iPhones are the worst

🎯

If my new car can last 10 years under a warranty, my phone should as well.

If only we had planned obsolescence for homelessness and disease instead. How do we make that happen? And leave consumer items alone.

i am european and i do NOT want this!

Planned obsolescence is bullshit

That's great, but the manufacturers will simply keep releasing software/firmware updates that make the phone damn near unusable within 2 years of you taking ownership of it.

Amen!!

Maybe. Current iPhones work great. And there are other options. Oh, and Apple won’t give up on > 400 million potential customers. They will adapt, as they always have done.

Apple changed from Lightning to USB-C to comply with EU regulations, so maybe it will…

I decided on a phone that allows me to change the battery if needed. It is easy and I can do it without problems (have done so in the past). When I go on holidays, I take a spare battery with me, just in case, at a cost of 12 Euro. Easy.

Ban #PlannedObsolescence. Guarantee us the #RightToRepair!

security compliant software updates may be the problem here

🫡👍🥊

Isn't it amazing how some governments recognize they can tell artificial legal constructs called corporations what they have to do in order to benefit their own people and societies in general, instead of pretending people must be left to the mercy of those corporations.

The EU is standing tall against the oligarchy. Thank you for being the adults in the room.

I thought I was being a boomer keeping my phone for 5 years, who keeps their phone for 10 lol

fuck yeah

👏👏👏👍

What a great idea!

While America continues its cell/tech scams.

I’m ok with that except the “user replaceable” part. That messes with the waterproofing and I think it’s a step back. If I want my battery on my iPhone replaced right now, a local tech is doing it under an hour for barely more than the cost of the battery.

I appreciate Google phones for long life service and not abandoning old phones

That’s more like it!

It will be very interesting how they achieve this to be end-user replaceable with new advances in how they cool batteries and devices while also charging them at 45W - 65W and so on!

Europe has returned as worldwide leaders!

WOW! That will never happen in the U.S. Powerful lobbies rule the regime and the government, when it was one. Planned obsolescence is behind all consumer products, from washing machines, to TVs, to cars. It's outright theft from consumers.

So long APPLE you monopolizing scoundrel 🎉👏

The EU leads the way, and I for one am thankful for their reasoned leadership.