Starting June 20, 2025, all smartphones and tablets sold in the EU will feature a new label inside the box, indicating battery life and efficiency. This is will be an update to the energy sticker Europeans are already familiar with on many household appliances. All smarthones and tablets have to meet also key ecodesign criteria. How will this affect Fairphone?
sources: GSM Arena, Tweakers (in Dutch), European Union
thanks for the links.
I had not heard of this european law before. it’s really cool!
From june 20 this year, phones and tablets will need to display lots of info, including a fall resistance category, battery life rating, and reparability score.
everything depends on the testing method of course.
but i believe that the FP will lead in terms of reparability.
Also 5 years updates mandatory! that’s bound to change things up.
Unfortunately, it’s going to be more painful on the smaller manufacturers, and I think Fairphone included, even if they expected to do that anyway. Now they may have to report to bureaucratic powers and/or follow standardized processes and such.
To note: the document will have to be inside the box, wich i interpret it to mean that you’ll only read it after you buy it…
and with warranty info/first use setting up, i fear it may not be exploited as such.
but it’s maybe a foot in the door?
Thanks for posting @mr_T1449 .
It indeed looks revolutionary as it stipulates 7 years of spare parts and 5 years of software after the end of sales ( not the launch date as it is often now done).
Even for FP which is exceptional in this regard it could be a stretch.
According to the first of the two links in the original post this will fall into the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) which is a database where already today you can look up for instance basically all available washing machines and sort them by energy consumption or other criteria. I’m pretty sure smartphones will be added there, too, and then you’ll have this one platform where you can easily compare products instead of having to read through many different websites with different numbers etc. It’s a pity that this platform is not known more.