Repeated free fall reliability class
How many 1-metre falls the device survived without a defect: A is the most robust. Cracks in the frame or glass do not count as defects if everything still works safely.
- What it looks like on the label
- A falling phone with a down arrow, and a row of letters A to E with one highlighted.
- Printed on
- Phone or tablet
- Unit
- letter A–E (falls without defect)
- Regulation
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1669, Annex III
What the regulation says
On a phone or tablet label
- What the number measures
- Number of falls passed by at least four of five units without a defect (screen, cameras, radios, charging, touch, buttons, speakers and so on still working).
- Unit
- letter A–E (falls without defect)
- Test condition
- 1 m fall height, no case or foil on non-foldable devices, checks after 45, 90, 180 and 270 falls for phones.
- Classes
- Non-foldable smartphone A: ≥ 270 falls · B: 180–269 · C: 90–179 · D: 45–89 (no class E in the table). Non-foldable tablet A: ≥ 208 … E: < 52
Regulation (EU) 2023/1669, Annex II, point B, Table 3; label point Annex III, point 1 (VII); test in Annex IV, point 4: repeated free fall reliability class determined in accordance with Annex II;
Checked 2026-09-25.
Other icons on the phone or tablet label
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 of 16 June 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 with regard to the energy labelling of smartphones and slate tablets. Label content: Annex III. Article 8: “It shall apply from 20 June 2025.” Checked 2026-09-25.
Read in the Official Journal text on the date shown. Our drawing is not the official pictogram; the regulation’s own label figure is the authority.