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It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:

The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

  • fluke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    You’ve got to be on a very old phone before you stop getting updates pushed through though? I know Apple are actually pretty good at legacy updates, but Android has got to be 5 or 6 years? Although the challenge is probably more to the variety of Anroid options out there in both the OS configurations and the hardware, where iOS is just iOS and the hardware is known.

    I feel that when you get to that age then your battery is pretty much cooked anyway unless it’s had very light use or the owner has been absolutely meticulous in it’s care.

    • UlrikHDAEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Got a Sony Xperia premium XZ from 2017 with the latest update being from 2019, android version 9

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think I’ve gotten an update on my 2019 era android phone for 3 years? Samsung before that usually stopped after a 1.5 years. Maybe it’s better now? I’d like to see a mandate to unlock bootloaders and give us root on our own darn phones, and maybe some standard like we have for PCs where MS and Linux both make generic OSs. I still don’t get why Android phones can’t just have generic Android updates provided by whatever distro you run.

    • Thadrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know the current state, my Galaxy S4 mini was shipped with android 4.3 and it never even got 5 from Samsung. Custom rims delivered but 6 wasn’t available at all (plus the hardware struggled at that point).

    • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s years. I always keep my phone as long as possible, but I was forced to replace my previous phone because my bank app was going to stop functioning on Android version X and lower. My current phone is now 4 years old and I hope I won’t have to replace it any time soon. I hate setting up new devices. :p

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m sure they dislike oil changes too - but they probably don’t like the outcome of never doing either even less.