New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU
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I can hear the howl from the White House.
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Why is the energy usage so big and the repairability score so small?
These should be switched. Energy usage of the smartphone is less relevant, as it is a mobile device, so it is already designed to be energy efficient.
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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!
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Why is the energy usage so big and the repairability score so small?
These should be switched. Energy usage of the smartphone is less relevant, as it is a mobile device, so it is already designed to be energy efficient.
You are correct in general but the issue with repairability is already addressed separately* so it doesn't make sense to make it a big point here.
- See: Right to repair, the accessability of spare parts for end consumers in particular.
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You are correct in general but the issue with repairability is already addressed separately* so it doesn't make sense to make it a big point here.
- See: Right to repair, the accessability of spare parts for end consumers in particular.
I would expect a repair score to be about how easy it is to repair, can the battery be easily changed, is it glued down, etc.
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I would expect a repair score to be about how easy it is to repair, can the battery be easily changed, is it glued down, etc.
That's my point. In the future you won't see glued down batteries anymore, just like you won't have company-owned repairshop monopolies. That's already addressed. It will simply require some time until all members have put those new rules into national law. So why would they include reapirability in a new label system coming into effect much later.
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Wow, looks very promising
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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.
