European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
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non-replaceable batterys are also safety hazard. what if one starts swelling up due to age or fault? Only reason why they started doing that is so phones would become unusable faster.

To be fair though, I've never heard of a modern phone battery swelling. That's something that will happen years after it's EOL, and at that point the company is no longer obligated to supply a replacement (as ideal as that would be).

An integrated battery allows the company to minimize the size and design of the phone. It's not 100% greed and planned obsolescence, though its virtually guaranteed those are components of the design decision.

It was only 6 years ago Samsung note 7's were exploding all over the place.

As for chargers eu has already mandated usb-c interface so that's already solved.

Yeah, it was so big of a meme that there were popular mods for GTA replacing explosive charges with Note 7's.

at least eu already made usb-c the standard