France will begin labeling electronics with repairability ratings in January Comments
- Anonymous
- 0BG
Anything with a non-removable battery should get no more than 5
- Sarang
- DkE
Please bring back removable batteries and people will hold onto their phones for longer. Non removable battery in a phone is intentional by the manufacturer to force users/consumers into buying a new phone once the battery runs out of juice. It's all part of planned obsolescence. Good initiative by France, hopefully manufacturers will make parts easy to replace if consumers vote with their wallets. All countries should adopt such initiative to check on ewaste.
- Fatcat
- tue
Repair what, all smartphone this day is disposibel, repairing it's the same cost as buying a brand new phone's
- r31ya
- sEG
Shanti Dope, 26 Nov 2020Repairability refers to how easy or how practical it is to repair a product. Nothing makes men... morewhy people complains about removable battery in Powerbank era.
and yes, if you use android, your battery can be replaced when it aged. it just you gonna need to bring it to repairshop.
and i take that design which allows bigger battery and more durable innards as they don't need to take account to engineer user replaceable battery.
- r31ya
- sEG
Shanti Dope, 26 Nov 2020Repairability refers to how easy or how practical it is to repair a product. Nothing makes men... morewhy people bitch about removable battery in Powerbank era.
and yes, if you use android, your battery can be replaced when it aged. it just you gonna need to bring it to repairshop.
and i take that design which allows bigger battery and more durable innards as they don't need to take account to engineer user replaceable battery.
- Shanti Dope
- y6V
Geralb, 26 Nov 2020Apple devices be like 1 1 is an overstatement. -10 should be the highest for them.
- Shanti Dope
- y6V
Anonymous, 26 Nov 2020Thanks God ! Finaly this will be the end of the *ucking
non-removable batteries & iphones !Repairability refers to how easy or how practical it is to repair a product. Nothing makes mention of removability of batteries.
You can have a removable battery all you want, but if the other internal components are difficult to remove or replace, it'd still get very low repairability scores.
- AnonD-940827
- 8pQ
Anonymous, 26 Nov 2020Thanks God ! Finaly this will be the end of the *ucking non-removable batteries & iphones !Keep dreaming.
- Anonymous
- n{2
Thanks God ! Finaly this will be the end of the *ucking
non-removable batteries & iphones !
- Anonymous
- PZa
Wow, France is great. Viva la France. This will make phone makers concentrate on designing their phones so parts are easily replaceable.
- AnonD-940827
- 8pQ
And what phones are France producing?
- Roman5
- 0B4
Good. I hope this is only the start. Someone needs to put these tech companies in their place and remind them that they can't do just whatever they want.
- Anonymous
- 8Kf
AnonD-923722, 26 Nov 2020Pixels and plastic phones are very repairable, Iphones and other curved ones aren't.
No.
Pixel 5 is unibody. You need to remove screen to access battery, while glass phones you remove rear panel. Curved screen is just more expensive, it is not harder to take it off.
- GSM Boy
- C9a
They should also have a youtube channel explaining the repairability rating they're providing the specific phones and break it down to specific areas why they have failing marks just like what other YouTubers are doing (Jerryrigeverything..etc) and make a lot of money at the same time, LMAO. I guess France is the first one who will be taking it seriously.
- Anonymous
- mNI
AnonD-923722, 26 Nov 2020Pixels and plastic phones are very repairable, Iphones and other curved ones aren't. Every sealed phone has the same issue, so be it plastic Pixel, or glassy iPhone, they are both similarly difficult to repair.
- AnonD-923722
- tDQ
Anonymous, 26 Nov 2020This is about how hard or easy is to fix a device, not of it is tough or fragile.
Pixels and plastic phones are very repairable, Iphones and other curved ones aren't.
- Anonymous
- 8Kf
AnonD-923722, 26 Nov 2020Well in this type of scores i guess Pixels and plastic budget phones will rank highest. While ... moreThis is about how hard or easy is to fix a device, not of it is tough or fragile.
- Exyvia
- P%N
Rest in pieces Apple.
Probably get minimal ratings with all the Locking of the components and restricting 3rd party buyers of repairable parts.
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