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.

  • mister_flibble@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s just a blatant lie that a phone with a removable battery can’t be waterproof without being massive. I had a galaxy s5 active years ago that was, and the difference in thickness between that and the standard one was negligible.

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      1 year ago

      Phones are really at the point where there’s not really much point being thinner - hell most people put protective cases on phones anyway that dramatically increase the thickness, I know I do!

      If they could instead build the added protection a case gives you into the phone, on top of a headphone jack and a microSD slot I’d be set - we need a Panasonic toughphone or something.

      BRING BACK THE STRENGTH OF THE NOKIA 3310 - I WANT A SMARTPHONE AS INDESTRUCTIBLE AS THAT!