Why Does Your Phone Battery Suck?
With technology advancing so quickly, why do phone batteries still suck? Have researchers found a longer-lasting battery? Are Solid State Batteries The Perfect ...
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When my phone dies, I like to be tactful; I prefer to say that it “passed away”. Hey there power hungry people, I’m Jules here for DNews. Smartphone batteries suck. Actually, all commercial batteries suck, and that’s kind of a big problem. Every new smartphone iteration seems to have twice the megapixels, three times the storage space, no headphone jack, and… barely better battery life. And that battery life isn’t even guaranteed. On an average smartphone, the lithium-ion battery is generally expected to last between 300 and 500 charge cycles, and many of us do go through an entire charge cycle every single day. So the fact is, smartphone batteries aren’t really meant to stay fully functional for more than a year. The problem comes from the fact that since the late 1970...
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When my phone dies, I like to be tactful; I prefer to say that it “passed away”. Hey there power hungry people, I’m Jules here for DNews. Smartphone batteries suck. Actually, all commercial batteries suck, and that’s kind of a big problem. Every new smartphone iteration seems to have twice the megapixels, three times the storage space, no headphone jack, and… barely better battery life. And that battery life isn’t even guaranteed. On an average smartphone, the lithium-ion battery is generally expected to last between 300 and 500 charge cycles, and many of us do go through an entire charge cycle every single day. So the fact is, smartphone batteries aren’t really meant to stay fully functional for more than a year. The problem comes from the fact that since the late 1970...
