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Many of today's mobile phones, like the slim iPhone Air, are lightweight and sleek, with an advanced design and the latest in modern technology. It's a far cry from previous models, which were bulkier, had buttons, and bulged in your pocket. But while mobile phones have evolved over the years, the current fixed-battery design is reverting to its old form, thanks to legislation from the European Union (EU). Based on these new guidelines, phones will once again need batteries that can be safely removed and replaced by the user.
The EU's legislation also mandates that replacement batteries, while meeting the device's technical specifications, not be bound by proprietary limits. This means that a phone must be able to accept a compatible battery that meets the device's safety and technical standards, whether or not it's manufacturer-branded. Plus, replacement batteries must be available to the user for at least 5 to 7 years following a model's end of production. The EU has placed a date of February 18, 2027, for these expectations to be met.
[...] The EU's new legislation requiring smartphones to have removable batteries accomplishes a few different things. First, allowing users to replace a spent battery with a new one helps extend the life of the device before its final disposal. Plus, it also enables battery repair or replacement without throwing out the entire phone. By giving users this capability, the rules are meant to encourage reuse of existing phones and help cut down on electronic waste.
[...] But if removable batteries become the norm once again, then phone design could take a step backward in terms of overall construction. That's because cases may need to become thicker to accommodate the removable batteries, and additional safety features would need to be added to protect the new design as well. Until the top phone manufacturers reveal newer models to satisfy the EU's standards, it's unclear what changes users can expect to see.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Tork on Monday March 02, @01:32AM (4 children)
I am not, of course, of the opinion that the entire market should bend to my whims. But I will warn ya'all that it wasn't all sunshine and roses, and now we're a lot more addicted to these things than we were way back when. I do hope hope hope if we're really heading this way they'll address that instead of using it for planned obsoleteness. Every cut they put into a phone case is a weakness to its integrity.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02, @02:35AM (1 child)
I have a phone waiting for me to take its battery-pillow for recycling. (Those things _scare_ me..)
and ya know what? It just "jostled itself apart." All that tape along the outter rim, and all that.. er.. tape. Yeah.
Hey, I bet you could fix your jostle problem with some (strong, decent) double-sided tape! If you want it to be _really_ hard to get apart, try using hot glue. (Hot glue tip: Wait for it to _really_ melt, not just "ok it's maleable now." That lets it bind much more thoroughly, and heat the surface it's binding to before it resolidifies.)
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday March 02, @03:07AM
I was thinking Crazy glue (super glue / cyanoacrylate ester) but double-sided, duct tape, whatever.
It's much easier to convert a removable battery phone into a non-removable one than the other way around.
I'm with you on the Li-ion battery worries. I've never had a fire but I've had several that fatten up. I have someone's Samsung tablet that's all puffed up and so far I haven't been able to get it apart.
I never used to think much of hot glue, but over the years I've used it more and more. I bought a really good hot glue gun- it has two heat settings. I pretty much always use it on high, and I let it sit a while to get the glue really hot, and yup, it sticks very well.
Another key is to get the parts together very quickly. If you let it start to cool too much as you slowly squeeze the parts together you'll get a gap and bad joint. You could use a hot air gun (heat gun) to preheat the parts you're going to glue to make very sure the glue bonds to the parts.
I was surprised to find out how much furniture and cabinetry (including kitchen cabinets) are held together with hot glue. I've had to repair some where the joints weren't quite knitted together and started coming apart.
You can use a heat gun to soften the glue.
A few years ago I replaced someone's well pump. It came with a waterproof wire splice kit, which was just some butt splices (metal cylinders) and hot glue-lined heatshrink tubing.
Where I work we build electronic stuff and we use mostly hot glue-lined heatshrink tubing. It seals very well.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday March 02, @03:48AM
This problem was solved in the 90's. I had a little flip phone with a removable battery, and it was rock solid.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by cereal_burpist on Wednesday March 04, @04:29AM
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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