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[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.

You'll also need a battery, which in these cases then will come with a spudger, a tube of suitable glue, and instructions. Bring your own hairdryer I think is reasonable.

The idea is not so much that everyone will be replacing their own battery but that they could, which on the flipside then also means that shops will readily do it because they have no issue getting at parts and you don't need to be a specialist to do it. What won't fly is pulling an Apple and crypto-locking batteries to phones and requiring activation and only doing that for swaps made by the Apple store and stuff. Tesla tried to pull the same kind of shit with their cars in the EU and they got completely obliterated by regulations, up to and including price controls for their diagnosis software because they wanted to price out independent repair shops.

If you want a list of phones with actually replacable batteries try this.

Did you guys just stop testing after 15?

Times hundred. The labels have the zeroes, the database doesn't.

Also โ€œwith regard to energy labellingโ€ what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones โ€œRepeated free fall reliabilityโ€ or IP protection inside there?

That "energy" label is an old and well-known scheme that people are actively looking for when shopping for things, makes sense to tack other sustainability stuff onto it if you want people to see it. Does it make sense? No. Does it make sense? Yes.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 had a user-replaceable battery and a headphone jack, yet an IP67 rating. But yes, these are all glued in.