{"id":296151,"date":"2026-04-21T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=296151"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:50:09","slug":"europe-now-requires-smartphone-batteries-to-be-replaceable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/europe-now-requires-smartphone-batteries-to-be-replaceable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe now requires smartphone batteries to be replaceable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu.\u00a0The European Union is about to make another big change in the world of mobile phones after making USB-C a common charging standard. <\/p>\n<p>From February 18, 2027, all smartphones and portable devices sold in European markets will be required to have a self-removable and replaceable battery. <\/p>\n<p>To comply with this rule, giants such as Apple, Samsung, Google and Xiaomi will have to make extensive changes to the design of their upcoming models. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that old-fashioned plastic back-cover phones are going to come back. <\/p>\n<p>Now, mobile manufacturers will have to focus on making it easier to open the device to access the battery, reduce the use of adhesives to attach internal parts, and allow simple tools to repair them. This will reduce the cost of battery replacement and increase the durability of the phone. <\/p>\n<p>According to the European Union, the main aim is to reduce electrical waste, encourage repair work and help consumers last longer on their devices instead of having to replace their phones every few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu.\u00a0The European Union is about to make another big change in the world of mobile phones after making USB-C a common charging standard. From February 18, 2027, all smartphones and portable devices sold in European markets will be required to have a self-removable and replaceable battery. To comply with this rule, giants such as Apple, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":212518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45167,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296152,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296151\/revisions\/296152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/212518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}