Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That’s far from the case today…

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    1 year ago

    I’m all for this. The big argument against it is that it makes it harder to waterproof but I’ll take that over a phone I have to replace every 18 months because the battery is shit.

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          Yeah, I get it, I just remember phones exploding into 3 parts whenever you dropped it as well as the back cover wearing out to the point it wouldn’t even stay on. People really do just have the nostalgia blinders on; as long as there isn’t an arbitrary lockout there’s nothing wrong with having to open the phone to swap the battery. Plus you have a 0% chance of being SOL if you get a cheap Chinese battery and it blows up (the shop that swapped your battery would be on the hook).

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, that phone was not as nearly as indestructible as the internet memes would suggest, thanks for proving my point about nostalgia blinders. As you can see in this video the phone utterly explodes from a simple chest high drop. The casing itself even splits open and ejects the keys out from under the faceplate. Yeah such a “brick” huh. Ironically, the new 3310 he compares it against fares much much better in that drop.

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                Don’t know about the video, my personal experience and that of my generation is that we abused the duck out of those phones and they survived.

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                  No, this is not your personal experiences, that’s the nostalgia blinders yet again as if you couldn’t prove my point any more. I am actually old enough to have had a 3310 and they exploded at the slightest drop. Sure, you could put it back together and it’d work, until it didn’t.

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                1 year ago

                No, we have always had to make a compromise or a choice between sustainability, convenience, or price. The EU just decided to limit that choice to convenience or price.

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        That’s just not true. I’ve always been an android user and it’s non-trivial to change the battery, hasn’t been easy for years.

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      1 year ago

      I had a sony walkman in the late 90s that was waterproof. I could put CDs in it and replace the batteries. They can figure it out.