Re: The long-awaited EU battery-lifetime standards kick in on June 20, 2025

On 2025-05-24 14:07, Marion wrote:

Specifically, all smartphones and tablets sold in the EU from June 20,
2025, must have sufficiently durable batteries capable of enduring at least
800 full charge-discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their
initial capacity. This is a significant standard mainly designed to counter
Apple's strategy of putting the cheapest battery they can in the iPhone.
  From June 20, 2025, all new smartphones and tablets will be required to
carry a new label inside the product packaging. This label will display
information on battery life, energy efficiency, and repairability. The
battery section will show the number of charge cycles the battery is rated
for before losing more than 20% of its original capacity.

Nope.
Utterly false.
You keep equating "smaller" with "cheap" and "crappy".
But when examining how long a battery's life will be, you need to examine both the battery's capacity...
...AND the power draw of the device the battery powers.