So I filtered for “Battery user-replacable” and found 117 smartphones (out of ~500).
This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.
It lacks a lot of phone models. I couldn’t find any Google Pixel or Fairphone.
The “Battery endurance in cycles” (number of charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80 % of its rated capacity) attribute is completely broken:
It never seems to exceed 15?
I had phones for years that withstood hundreds/thousands of battery cycles and the battery still nearly behaved like it’s new and you’re telling me the maximum number is 15??? Did you guys just stop testing after 15?
Also “with regard to energy labelling” what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones “Repeated free fall reliability” or IP protection inside there?
The whole thing looks way to intransparent and useless for the average phone buyer and definetly needs some improvement…
General labelling about repairability/phone lifetime (e.g. receives updates for X years, replacement parts are avilable for X years, can install another OS, can replace battery without external tools, etc) without a overall score that merges all aspects would be a lot better and useful IMHO.
Agreed that a lot of the phones’ batteries are not actually replaceable without serious disassembling most of the phone. The common names of the phones are not front and center either. It’s quite disappointing from an official governmental service.
The “battery endurance in cycles” is the weirdest thing to me. Even Li ion batteries from 20 years ago could achieve 100+ charge cycles before <80% capacity is hit. Fifteen (or lower) is suspect for the testing method or concerning for the engineering.
Whilst I get the idea the implementation is currently unusable:
So I filtered for “Battery user-replacable” and found 117 smartphones (out of ~500). This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.
It lacks a lot of phone models. I couldn’t find any Google Pixel or Fairphone.
The “Battery endurance in cycles” (number of charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80 % of its rated capacity) attribute is completely broken: It never seems to exceed 15? I had phones for years that withstood hundreds/thousands of battery cycles and the battery still nearly behaved like it’s new and you’re telling me the maximum number is 15??? Did you guys just stop testing after 15?
Also “with regard to energy labelling” what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones “Repeated free fall reliability” or IP protection inside there?
The whole thing looks way to intransparent and useless for the average phone buyer and definetly needs some improvement…
General labelling about repairability/phone lifetime (e.g. receives updates for X years, replacement parts are avilable for X years, can install another OS, can replace battery without external tools, etc) without a overall score that merges all aspects would be a lot better and useful IMHO.
Agreed that a lot of the phones’ batteries are not actually replaceable without serious disassembling most of the phone. The common names of the phones are not front and center either. It’s quite disappointing from an official governmental service.
They have 5 models listed for Google
It’s hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.
Touché. However this doesn’t change the fact that the interface is absolutely useless.
When I’m searching for Google I just get the model ids:
None of these phones have the word “Pixel” anywhere and I have to look the market name up on a 3rd party website.
Seriously? Maybe they should include the unit of measurement or just print two extra zeros.
Again these points just highlight that this utterly unusable for a normal user.
The “battery endurance in cycles” is the weirdest thing to me. Even Li ion batteries from 20 years ago could achieve 100+ charge cycles before <80% capacity is hit. Fifteen (or lower) is suspect for the testing method or concerning for the engineering.