Replaceable batteries mean that you can just buy two or more and just carry them around so you can charge them less often. Alternatively you can charge the battery at home while you are away with the phone and have no down time for charging. (Down time meaning you can't carry the phone around.)

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Reason077 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> ”Replaceable batteries mean that you can just buy two or more and just carry them around so you can charge them less often.”

If you think this is what the EU battery regulation means, I’ve got some bad news for you.

Besides, as others pointed out, encouraging people to carry around multiple batteries for their devices would just lead to more e-waste, not less.

Also, carrying “naked” Li-ion batteries that are not installed in a device is prohibited on airlines - another reason why it shouldn’t be encouraged!

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mytailorisrich 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interestingly if people start to buy extra batteries as you suggest then this will completely defeat the stated purpose of having replaceable batteries!

That being said, now they buy external power banks...

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hermanzegerman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No it won't. It's about reducing eWaste from the devices itself. Throwing away a whole device just because the battery is bad is much worse than just throwing away a worn out battery.

My 9 year old ThinkPad T470 is doing well with his 3rd or 4rd battery (and a new SSD and more RAM).

Also external powerbanks are pretty unpractical compared to a fresh new internal battery.

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mytailorisrich 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is indeed a policy aimed at reducing e-waste, including resources and harmful substances from batteries.

So allow to find that "yay I can buy more batteries!" is a highly ironic response.

And again, all the statements that it this "obviously" better than possibly buying a new phone seem to lack any references to actual data...

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		The mistake in your argument is thinking that buying batteries results directly in e-waste. It first results in more working batteries being used over the lifetime of a device. Whether that results in more or less waste batteries in wallclock time depends on how that affects the time the device is used. If batteries are also standardized and thus device independent, the device becoming waste also doesn't mean the battery becoming waste automatically. But yeah, I can see the irony in my comment.
	▲	hermanzegerman 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I can't believe you're arguing in good faith. Obviously just replacing the battery is better than replacing the whole device and all it's components just because the battery is bad. The User above also said he bought two or three batteries, so he can swap them out when the battery is empty (I've also done this with my laptop) and distributing the charging cycles between the batteries, so they will all last longer. If he wasn't a power user, he wouldn't drop money on two or three batteries in the beginning, and just buy a new one when the old goes bad.

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toyg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Buying an extra battery is very different from buying an entire new phone and in no way it would offset the environmental gain of not buying an entire new phone.

Please don't engage in argument for argument's sake.