{"id":2597,"date":"2025-04-25T06:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2025-04-25T06:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:28:39","slug":"new-smartphone-labels-for-battery-life-and-repairability-are-coming-to-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2597","title":{"rendered":"New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The new label highlights energy efficiency, durability, repairability, and battery life.<\/em>Image: European CommissionTablets are also covered by the scheme, which takes effect in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include ratings for energy efficiency, durability, and repairability. Hardware will also have to meet new \u201cecodesign requirements\u201d to be sold in the EU, including a requirement to make spare parts available for repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The labels, which will be required for any devices that go on sale from June 20th onwards, are similar to existing ones for home appliances and TVs. They display the product\u2019s energy efficiency rating, on a scale from A to G, along with battery life, the number of charge cycles the battery is rated for, letter grades for durability and repairability, and any applicable IP rating for protection from dust and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new labels include plenty of information on a product\u2019s eco credentials.<\/em>Screenshot: European Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside the labels the EU is introducing \u201cecodesign requirements\u201d imposing minimum standards on the same products. Those include protection from splashes of water (and dust particles larger than 1mm for phones), scratch and drop protection, batteries that retain at least 80 percent of their capacity after 800 charging cycles, and making \u201ccritical spare parts\u201d available within 5-10 working days. Manufacturers are also required to provide operating system updates within six months of the source code becoming available \u2014 a bar that Samsung would have failed to meet with its recentOne UI 7 rollout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Covered products include smartphones and tablets with screens up to 17.4 inches, along with cordless landline phones and feature phones. Phones with rollable displays are exempted \u2014 not that any are on sale yet,though they\u2019re coming\u2014 while Windows-based tablets will be covered by aseparate scheme for computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new label highlights energy efficiency, durability, repairability, and battery life.Image: European CommissionTablets are also covered by the scheme, which takes effect in June. The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include ratings for energy efficiency, durability, and repairability. Hardware will also have … Continue reading “New smartphone labels for battery life and repairability are coming to the EU”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}