Volla's new Plinius is a rugged, Google-free Android phone with a replaceable battery, IP68 rating, and a clean OLED display, starting at €598.

If you’re great at your job, it means you’re replaceable, and that’s a good thing. You should strive to be replaceable; it’s how an organization grows. This may seem counterintuitive, but let me ...

The EU will require smartphones and tablets to have user-replaceable batteries by 2027, aiming to reduce electronic waste and ...

Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone, or a cellphone ...

Thanks to the EU, smartphone batteries will be much easier to swap in the future. This will affect the whole world.

If you are someone who upgrades your smartphone every few years because the battery starts to degrade, that situation could ...

The EU's battery regulation will require removable batteries in phones from 2027, potentially making repairs easier, ...

Handheld consoles like the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch will be required to have batteries you can replace yourself under a new EU law. Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and ...

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