I suspect some companys will absolutely use this as Marketing stunt " Look how customer friendly we are" cant wait for the Iphone advertisements that make it look like they invented it for the first time ( they advertised in germany still like 3 months ago that you can delete sent messages )

So likely some companys will Release way earlier phones with Removeable batterys is my guess

  • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world
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    Probably. Now that it’s a legal requirement there may be a rush to be the first to offer it as a feature. Spin it so they’re doing this by choice for the consumer rather than being forced.

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    The marketing will be particularly ironic since nearly all of the current companies made phones with removable batteries as recently as five years ago.

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    Yeah my phone is about 5 years old right now, and I’m wondering if I can keep it alive til 2027 so my next one can have a removable battery. My current one is not too hard to replace the battery (have to undo a lot of tiny screws and some double sided tape, but nowhere near as bad as an iphone). But it’s the principle.

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    I wish these regulations would have shorter timeframes. It does not take 4 years to add a removeable battery. Decrease it to 2 years

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      Feel ya . but i guess they need to leave the companys time to plan new phones and processes and i guess the next line up is already pretty much done so they obviously cant force companys to scrap those