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.
The market has spoken. If there were enough normies who would want bulky phones with removable batteries they would buy them. But they don’t… They want shinny unibody phones with locked bootloaders and proprietary connectors. Only a small minority cares about these issues.
I really hope the consequences of that decision won’t be too noticeable. Granted, there aren’t great options for people that want removable batteries, but this is taking away consumer choice, just in the opposite direction.
If you don’t want to change your battery that’s your thing. It just gives you the option to, so I don’t see what option it’s taking
Every phone is a compromise, size, weight, how much space you use for battery, how much for ports, how much for easy accessibility. As I understand it, I won’t be able to get one that sacrifices easy accessibility for the other stuff. I just hope the compromises won’t be too bad.
I don’t think they will be big compromises. I mean they use batteries anyways, so the ability to change them easily won’t be that big of a deal. They managed to do that in the past and just decided that it’s more profitable to glue them in
I hope so, but a sturdier packaging for the battery with a solid connector, space for a bunch of screws, reusable gasket instead of just glue etc. all takes some space.