Smartphones and Tablets
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Product Energy Efficiency - Smartphones and Tablets. The 2023 regulations cover smartphones, feature phones, cordless phones and slate tablets. They do not apply to tablet computers, to products with flexible main display (roll-up), and to smartphones for high security communication. Energy labelling is foreseen only for smartphones and slate tablets.

Manufacturers will be required to offer spare parts and publish security updates for an extended period. Energy labels will show a repairability index as well as energy efficiency.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    9·
    13 hours ago

    No requirements on replaceable batteries? That’s the main thing that’s missing here. That and making the USB-C port easy to repair, and suddenly you no longer need new phones, just extended software support and repairs.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
      5·
      4 hours ago

      User replaceable batteries are a part of the new battery directive and will be in force from sometime in 2027 if I recall correctly.

    • Luffy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 hours ago

      No requirements on replaceable batteries?

      Its in there. At least for phones without a high enough waterproof rating

      making the USB-C port easy to repair

      As far as I know it should be in there too, or at least a „make significant parts replaceable”

      • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        7 hours ago

        Its in there. At least for phones without a high enough waterproof rating

        Gonna guess all the phone manufacturers will coincidentally determine that waterproofing is a feature desperately needed by the European market on all tiers.

        Also won’t affect iPhones since they’re already all “waterproof.”

        • brisk@aussie.zone
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I don’t know if the changes coming into affect today have something different about replaceable batteries, but the 2027 replaceable battery requirement has this as the exemption:

          Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries

          2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

          (a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

          (b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

          The only thing there Apple could even pretend is “washable or rinsable”, and I’d be shocked* if they could get away with that.

          *not that shocked

      • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Wait, really? I’d love to see replaceable batteries make a comeback, but something tells me that companies will prefer to up the water resistance instead.