Re: What is the EU rating for your phone based on the June 20th 2025 filings?

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 20:18:21 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

See the website for details:
<https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/product/smartphonestablets20231669>
 
I think, this is the energy rating. For example for the ASUS ASUSAI2501H:
 
<https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/product/smartphonestablets20231669/2304129>

Here's the short answer:
 <https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en#energy-label>

Here's the longer answer.

Ignoring Alan Baker being a moron who won't click on those links and even
if he did, he won't understand them, it behooves us to LEARN & UNDERSTAND.

Now that the EU forced Apple to prove that their phones are inherently
lousy compared to Android given none could achieve an A overall score,
it still behooves us to UNDERSTAND what these ratings are since not every
Android earned an A score (but almost every OEM had at least one A score).

Since this is an Android newsgroup, and since I own a 2021 Samsung Galaxy
A3-5G (T-Mobile USA SM-A326U), let's look it up in the EPREL database.

1. <https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/product/smartphonestablets20231669>
2. Model identifier = SM-A326U > Search > (No result) > Drat.
3. Brand or trademark = Samsung > Search > (plenty of results)
4. Picking the closest I can find to an "A-series" Samsung...
   I note that *none* of the five EU SM-A* series achieved an A.
   Two of the five EU SM-A series phones achieved a B.
   The other three achieved a C.

Let's pick the "SM-S938B/DS" which achieved a B and let's try to figure out
what model of Samsung A-series that happens to be by tapping "More Details"
 <https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/product/smartphonestablets20231669/2339789>
There are a ton of things that the EU forced the OEMs to test & report on.

Notice "Required output power = 10 Watts" puts the lie to what Frank and
Arno said yesterday or the day before that "every charger works" since a
typical old brick is half the "required" power for this particular phone.

Also note the "Minimum guaranteed availability of operating system security
updates, corrective updates and functionality updates (years)" is only 5
years, and not the 6 years Samsung has promised for newer A-series' phones.

It may be due to "Model placed on the Union market from 24/12/2024".
There's also a "Product information sheet" & a "Label for printing".
More to the point, there is also a "Better understand this label" link.

Note: These are the things Apple trolls (and Carlos) are incapable of
clicking on. Why? See my previous explanation that uneducated people are
that way because their inability to look for answers is why they ask us to
prove everything they don't understand to them - which is everything.

This is the explanation of the label.
 <https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en#energy-label>