It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027

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Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

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Apple fanboy here… but they’re probably gonna market the feature with some cool new trendy name and make the battery replacements proprietary.

It will be built from the ground up 😂

Overcomplicated, overpriced, and they're gonna incentive just getting the next gen phone.

You mean built by some other manufacturer and marketed to seem like it was built from the ground up from Apple themselves.

$300 battery for your iPhone

Screens are now up there for genuine. Oh, and btw Apple very quietly implemented an “alert” when you have an aftermarket screen.

Now i hope it says something about availability of the replacement batteries...

Due to unexpectedly high demand, the $300 battery you ordered has 5 months waiting list. Payment in advance, of course, for your convenience.

I mean....battery replacements were ALWAYS proprietary. You can't pop a Galaxy S4 battery in a GS 5.

But you can put up a firmware barrier that keeps the phone from booting up, or at least from operating at full advertised capacity, unless it's an "authentic" battery that's been officially registered to that particular phone's serial number, which can only be done via special tools and software that are only available to official Apple repair shops. They've done it with cameras and screens and buttons, why not batteries? It's just another part.

At that point there's no way they can argue that the battery is user-serviceable without extra tools. Sure, they could argue that the law doesn't specify that they can't sabotage the device if you swap your battery but European courts have traditionally taken a dim view of that kind of tomfoolery.

I'm pretty sure that Apple aren't going to risk having to suddenly take all of their devices off the shelves. It's cheaper to comply.

You can buy third party batteries. The batteries are customized to the phone, but they aren't exclusively sold by the OEM.

They're going to see the battery is replaced and show your phone down. Just to be safe you know.

Oh you probably shouldn't go around admitting that so willingly.