Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Is my phone about to explode? Here's why the EU is right to mandate removable batteries

For a long time now, smartphones have had glued-in non-removable batteries that you have to recharge, and it kind of sucks. I'm sure a lot of young people have never even had a smartphone with removable batteries. You might not even know how great it once was to be able to use a phone until it dies, pop-off the back, take a fresh battery out of your wallet, pop-in the new one and be back to fully functional in less than 2 minutes (including boot time). Even my fastest-charging 120W Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra takes 24 minutes to fully recharge. Sure, that's a lot faster than the hour or 3 hours it takes to charge an iPhone, but it's still a lot longer than the 60-second battery swap we used to be able to do.



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