The EU Parliament has voted almost unanimously in favor of a regulation that could make phone batteries easily accessible and replaceable.
Do you remember the good old days when a bug causing your phone to freeze was taken care of by taking out the battery to restart it? Or, the ease with which batteries could be taken out and replaced in case they’re old or need changing? Over time, sleeker phones came, but with the design changes, we also lost access to taking out the battery ourselves. Now, the EU Parliament is looking for a way to make batteries easily accessible and thus more easily serviced, reports Android Police.
There’s a new law in works in the EU Parliament that will encourage users to replace batteries on their phones themselves, specifically by making the battery easy to take out.
