New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU
New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU
It's funny how the magic trick actually works: you force companies to affix information to a product, the consumer reads and reacts to the information, and the company has to create products that satisfy the informed demand.
Looking at you, Apple and Samsung, removing features from your products simply to force your customers into an ever more closed ecosystem.
from June 20th
LETS GOOOOOOOO
I should be happy about this idea, but knowing big tech all too well, phones will become less and less affordable, the stricter the EU gets.
Then again, this way maybe phones will become usable for longer, so price-value ratio might become slightly better.
What? What will be driving this unaffordability? Companies being unable to lie?
Is that not what we want? For € to go into actual features, held up by publicly and verbosely declared information about a product???
what would battery repairability score indicate? availability of replacement batteries?
They display the product’s energy efficiency rating, on a scale from A to G, along with battery life, the number of charge cycles the battery is rated for, letter grades for durability and repairability, and any applicable IP rating for protection from dust and water.
It looks like individual scores for the battery and repairability. The battery score seems to be just charge cycles. Repairability would probably something similar to iFixit but we'll have to see. I do like this though or at least the attempt of it.
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.
Good thing I got a OnePlus 12r before all this happened, great battery life,
