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[EU] It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 years ago by ono@lemmy.ca to c/technology

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[–] alehel 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This will likely also see a rise in cheap knockoff batteries catching fire. It’s not unprecedented, and people are like “a battery is a battery”. Well, they aren’t.

If those batteries are being sold in the EU they would still have to meet EU requirements. This might be an issue if people go to buy them from places like aliexpress or something like that though.

That said, phones were available for years and years with replaceable batteries. Don't think I ever really heard of any of them catching fire before the Note 7 issues, and those were related to the phone not giving the batteries enough room to expand/contract, wasn't it?

[–] upstream 1 points 2 years ago

Plenty of cases before the note 7, just that it feels like they stopped reporting on it since the note 7.

The note 7 batteries had manufacturing defects so they short circuited internally. Having been given more room they would still have caught fire.