I have a feeling they’re gonna charge like $200 to $400 more then blame the regulators.
Battery replacement is an issue, but is easily solved with good design. I don’t need the thinnest phone that’s difficult to hold, a few extra mm won’t affect my life negatively. I’d rather have something usable and maintainable.
My biggest gripe however is the built in obsolesce of software support life. Perfectly good electronics are rendered useless by the system not receiving software / security updates after a couple of years.
Some manufacturers have longer support than others. I don’t know how to encourage that but maybe there needs to be a minimum acceptable
I’d like to see a requirement for microSD card storage. The cost of storage an phones is entirely deplorable
Oh yea. One of the reasons why I went for a Samsung A-Series instead of the S-Series is the microSD card slot. Yes, that slot is just soooo goood.
I can get an A series phone for like $400 with IP67 Water Resistance, and buy a $130 1TB MicroSD card and Voila, a 1TB phone. The cheapest Galaxy S-Series phone with 1TB storage is a $1500 Galaxy S-Something Ultra.
Like bruh, I don’t want to pay $1000 more if all I want to do is watch youtube videos with it.
I can have an offline wikipedia, like 10 TV shows, a few movies, the top 100 of my favorite Youtube Videos, thousands of books (that I’ll probably never read), cat photos, more cat photos, cat videos, and even more cat videos… etc…
I have a mini computer in my pocket.
Sadly no replaceable battery tho 🤷♂️
Samsung A-Series
Okey so I googled it. “Low range android phones blabla…”. Checked the price. Oh yeah wtf it’s 400€ lol. That’s more than I ever paid for a phone, even including the current one, which is the most expensive, Honor 10, that I got before covid
I mean… $400 is what I was willing to spend. You could go lower.
But I used sub-$100 android phones and… they aren’t great. (very laggy)
Yup totally agreed, I tied one for 150,and it was barely usable, I decided I can’t force myself to use that
Maybe on an iPhone
Cost of storage on Samsung Galaxy phones are not exactly cheap either
Wdym? Apple is notoriously shit for this exact thing. They probably still sell 32gb phones for $800 and call it a budget phone. While a 128gb version would be $1200
Apple no longer have 32GB phones.
The minimum is now at 128GB for Apple’s cheapest phone. Its been the minimum since the iPhone 11
I understand your contempt for Apple, and I hate Apple too, but lets stick with the facts.
Apple’s latest phone:
Samsung’s latest phone:
About the same…
Begrudgingly
It sounds like the regulation is weak enough that the manufacturers won’t have to do much. I have to say batteries or chargers have gotten better. Batteries used to fail all the time, but they last much longer now. So people are less bothered.
They’ll either make the phones dumb again, or make the batteries replaceable again.
If they do the latter, they’ll probably just make them even thinner, requiring you to replace them more often.
They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It’s possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.
They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true.
Take a look at Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro
it’s still in production and being sold lol
I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won’t bother to do both for 99% of models, they’ll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.
That’s a ruggedized phone, most people don’t want a phone that’s twice as thick and doesn’t provide anywhere near twice the battery.
Wasn’t it actually apple with the adhesive strips that can easily be removed when a current is applied? Such tech would be awesome if more generally available
We will have to see.
Apple can charge $400 more, but if Samsung doesn’t, then they will lose market share.
And the EU is still one of the worlds three biggest markets.
So I am not really concerned.
And worst case, I switch to a Fairphone, which might not be bleeding edge, but it is still a better phone than my previous gen flagship Samsung or the flagship iPhone that came before it.
I see it as just running 2 years behind.
If your battery is replaceable, there will be cheaper 3rd party options.
They will sell repair kits.
As far as I know, they’ll have to include it with the sale of the phone in order to be compliant.
Not the battery itself, but like the tools to do the battery replacement.
