Remember when your smartphone had removable batteries that you could take out when you wanted to? Yes? No? Well, the European Union is working on a bill to bring these batteries back to use on smartphones. This bill would aim to help smartphone users easily replace their batteries if necessary.
This bill also aims to improve the repairability of smartphone batteries. Currently, the cost of repairing built-in smartphone batteries is quite expensive. The European Union hopes that with this bill, smartphone users will swap their batteries by themselves if they develop a fault.
Truthfully, there are more pressing issues that need attention from the EU, especially as built-in batteries have become popular across smartphone brands. Taking a step back to removable batteries will shake up the entire smartphone industry. Even more, most, if not all laptops come with a…