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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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 ofย charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80ย % 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I couldn't find any Google Pixel

They have 5 models listed for Google

The "Battery endurance in cycles" [...] never seems to exceed 15?

It's hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They have 5 models listed for Google

Touchรฉ. 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:

  • GUR25
  • GEC77
  • GZC4K
  • GTF7P
  • G6GPR

None of these phones have the word "Pixel" anywhere and I have to look the market name up on a 3rd party website.

It's hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Most users will only see the label when they are picking a new device (where the two extra zeros are present). I agree with your points on the database UI and hope they will be fixed soon, but describing the entire system as "utterly unusable" is not really fair.

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