New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU

Yay, bonus:

Alongside the labels the EU is introducing “ecodesign requirements” imposing minimum standards on the same products. Those include protection from splashes of water (and dust particles larger than 1mm for phones), scratch and drop protection, batteries that retain at least 80 percent of their capacity after 800 charging cycles, and making “critical spare parts” available within 5-10 working days. Manufacturers are also required to provide operating system updates within six months of the source code becoming available — a bar that Samsung would have failed to meet with its recent One UI 7 rollout.

Go EU! 🇪🇺

I can hear the howl from the White House.

Wow, looks very promising 😍😍

Lol that drop icon

Reads "A drop" or "B dropped"

And is so expressive I can hear the crack - even though it's a shock resistance rather than crack-ability.