A study carried out in several countries, including France, shows that battery-related problems (autonomy, charging) are the main reason why users change smartphones.
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The batteries of our smartphones operate with lithium-ion technology. If these have allowed several important developments, they still suffer from a problem: they inevitably deteriorate over time.
Basically, following just over two years of use, a phone battery has lost 20% of its initial capacity. Rather frustrating as an observation. Frustration as measured by a YouGov RealTime study ” carried out from December 17 to 23, 2021 among 1,000 to 2,000 people, depending on the country, representative of the national population aged 18 and over (France, Great Britain, USA), of the urban population for India and of the online population for China, according to the quota method ».
Battery Problems: Public Enemies #1
This study, which the laboratory teams DxOMark have shared with Frandroid, indeed shows that battery problems are the main motivation to change smartphones. It’s not really a surprise, but at least it’s confirmed.
Thus, around the world, 36% of users change their phone because it has lost autonomy. Added to this are the 19% of respondents who mention A reload less effective than in the early days in justifying their renewal.
The frustration is obviously economic: changing smartphones regularly represents a significant cost. It also has an ecological dimension. The environmental impact of a smartphone is not to be taken lightly and it is moreover to curb the too frequent renewal that repairability index has been implemented in France.
After implementing the repairability index on smartphones, tablets and laptops (among others), France can already congratulate itself on some great successes. An iFixit rep sheds light on these signs…
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