"It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027"
Good, now make it mandatory by 2025 instead. And make the battery the same on all smartphones, similar to the earlier USB-C decision.
I can hear the screams of the lobbyists, but I don't care. 4 years is way too long. The emergency is NOW.
https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/
@ParadeGrotesque I posted recently about how a review for a 2004 Sony PDA I own complained that it didn't have a user replaceable battery.
It has a little compartment on the side you remove one screw from, then from there can unplug the battery pack which has a standard simple connector and it just slides out, you slide the new one in and pop the connector back in.
This was considered too technical to be user replaceable back then, but I'd KILL for that now.
We also need to #standardize Li #cells as well. Right now, it's as if every 1920s radio manufacturer that ever was had their own different, proprietary, and incompatible A, B, and C batteries, and we still had to live with that, buying batteries only from the manufacturer of the device.
This is perfectly feasible. We have #cylindrical cell standards, now we just have to define them for #prismatic #pouch cells. Make battery #sellers #compete on #quality and #price.
@cazabon @ParadeGrotesque
I've been saying this as well. "Imagine if every battery-operated device in your home used its own custom battery and the only place to get a new one is from the manufacturer?"
But the "Early Radio manufacturers" example makes me think more: "What if every radio only worked on a single frequency?" #ThinkOutsideTheBox
It's a step in the right direction.
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