I have been maintaining this chart of phones with replaceable batteries available in the USA for 10 years now:

https://www.productchart.com/smartphones/removable_battery

Man, is it empty these days. The chart used to be pretty full. Now it only has about 1% of all phones that are in the Product Chart database. As the other 99% have fixed batteries.

I'm looking forward to see if the EU decision will push some companies to do this for their US versions too and revive the chart.

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cyberrock 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The EU directive doesn't even compel them to have those kinds of removable batteries in the EU, because being removable with commercially available tools is considered compliant [0]. The topic has been too obfuscated with hype pieces. Still, it would be nice to not have to break glass and melt glue to open up phones.

[0] https://repair.eu/news/making-batteries-removable-and-replac...

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audunw 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, thank god. As long as it’s easy to remove and replacement batteries can easily be purchased by individuals, I want my phone and battery glued, thank you very much.

I like apples approach to removable battery glue. Though it needs an extra tool. These days it should be easy to make a cheap USB-C PD powered thing that supplies a good DC voltage.

	▲	hermanzegerman 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The electricity-controlled glue in Apple's iPhone is made by Tesa, a German Glue company

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vinc 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't see any Fairphone on the page, they are not sold in the US?

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mg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure. I have not seen them on any large retailer in the USA like Amazon, Walmart, Newegg, BestBuy etc.

Maybe if someone here is in the USA and has bought one, they can chime in and tell where they got it from?

	▲	yanosc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, they are. The Fairphone 6 is available in the US through their official partner Murena.