Exactly. Pop one out, pop a fully charged one in. Instant fully charged phone. It was glorious. Expandable storage being taken across the board is quite literally criminal. The phone companies colluded to be able to sell more space for a premium 10x what an equivalent SD card would cost. It’s bullshit. EU, get your shit together and force expandable storage and removable batteries. Lord knows the US won’t.
What in saying is modern day, it wouldn’t make a difference if you had a case full of charged ready to go batteries vs a power bank that will speed charge a phone for you. Unless you’re a phone addict, you’re not charging your phone 70x times a day anyways.
In fact, with all this environmental crap, wouldn’t it be against the cause to start wanting to produce more lithium filled waste?
Also I remeber the first versions of the power bank, the back in the day ones, that everyone compared them to having a spare battery or one of those and I rmemebr how they used to be too, a janky multipurpose charger on a charger port that was a short ass wire attached to like an oval egg looking thing that was ran off of, if memory serves 4 aa’s or a 9volt.
I had one and it came in handy at the time when I used my mp3 player.
Still the questions some 20 years later remains: Does a power bank make a difference than spare batteries that are charged?
I had 2 spare phone batteries and they would run out quick, it made more sense to just have spare aa’s for the power bank than to buy another battery.
The removable battery is important so if your battery performance degrades due to age, you can get a new battery. Megacorp phones are designed to be thrown away before your battery degrades. But My fairphobe is designed to be used for at least 5 years, and in a few years when the battery life is suffering, I’ll get a new battery, but keep the phone.
So batteries are actually based on something called charging cycles which is why power saving mode is important to use because it’s not power saving, it’s battery saving.
Every time you let your phone go from 0% to 100% then back down to 0% that’s a full cycle. Most phones are designed to be charged about 10,000 times, from 0% to 100% back down to 0%. That’s 10,000 days, that’s 27 years.
That’s based on continuous, non-cumulative usage of battery life, so in one charge of using it straight and the battery death happens in 3 hours straight and then you charge it again. Which means it’s life is lowered by like ⅔’s
Cumulative battery usage is based on day-to-day and that would technically be a cycle. So 50% one day, 20% the next and 30% the final day. That to me doesn’t have much of a good explanation on the actual charging cycles that to me is more based on use which does play into battery life.
Idk man, they nerf the software and speed if you have a mainstream phone, like asshole or samesong, so a new battery isn’t gonna solve that.
Thinking back to my ngage qd, having a battery cradle was chill but with all the technology we have today, it’s stupid to want to keep the same phone for more than 6 years at a time. I think given he economics behind phones people clutch on to them for dear life because of how expensive they are to find just as good if not a better phone than the one that’s in your hands, other than that upgrading to after market unlocked phones is still the way.
Edit: Even though it would cost a lot manufacturers can still replace the battery. It’s not impossible to get a battery in a sealed phone replaced.
Removable battery isn’t as big of a flex as you think when you have another battery"
Exactly. Pop one out, pop a fully charged one in. Instant fully charged phone. It was glorious. Expandable storage being taken across the board is quite literally criminal. The phone companies colluded to be able to sell more space for a premium 10x what an equivalent SD card would cost. It’s bullshit. EU, get your shit together and force expandable storage and removable batteries. Lord knows the US won’t.
What in saying is modern day, it wouldn’t make a difference if you had a case full of charged ready to go batteries vs a power bank that will speed charge a phone for you. Unless you’re a phone addict, you’re not charging your phone 70x times a day anyways.
In fact, with all this environmental crap, wouldn’t it be against the cause to start wanting to produce more lithium filled waste?
Also I remeber the first versions of the power bank, the back in the day ones, that everyone compared them to having a spare battery or one of those and I rmemebr how they used to be too, a janky multipurpose charger on a charger port that was a short ass wire attached to like an oval egg looking thing that was ran off of, if memory serves 4 aa’s or a 9volt.
I had one and it came in handy at the time when I used my mp3 player.
Still the questions some 20 years later remains: Does a power bank make a difference than spare batteries that are charged?
I had 2 spare phone batteries and they would run out quick, it made more sense to just have spare aa’s for the power bank than to buy another battery.
The removable battery is important so if your battery performance degrades due to age, you can get a new battery. Megacorp phones are designed to be thrown away before your battery degrades. But My fairphobe is designed to be used for at least 5 years, and in a few years when the battery life is suffering, I’ll get a new battery, but keep the phone.
So batteries are actually based on something called charging cycles which is why power saving mode is important to use because it’s not power saving, it’s battery saving.
Every time you let your phone go from 0% to 100% then back down to 0% that’s a full cycle. Most phones are designed to be charged about 10,000 times, from 0% to 100% back down to 0%. That’s 10,000 days, that’s 27 years.
That’s based on continuous, non-cumulative usage of battery life, so in one charge of using it straight and the battery death happens in 3 hours straight and then you charge it again. Which means it’s life is lowered by like ⅔’s
Cumulative battery usage is based on day-to-day and that would technically be a cycle. So 50% one day, 20% the next and 30% the final day. That to me doesn’t have much of a good explanation on the actual charging cycles that to me is more based on use which does play into battery life.
Idk man, they nerf the software and speed if you have a mainstream phone, like asshole or samesong, so a new battery isn’t gonna solve that.
Thinking back to my ngage qd, having a battery cradle was chill but with all the technology we have today, it’s stupid to want to keep the same phone for more than 6 years at a time. I think given he economics behind phones people clutch on to them for dear life because of how expensive they are to find just as good if not a better phone than the one that’s in your hands, other than that upgrading to after market unlocked phones is still the way.
Edit: Even though it would cost a lot manufacturers can still replace the battery. It’s not impossible to get a battery in a sealed phone replaced.
That’s a lot of words to condescendingly say “nuh-uh”.
In fact, with all this environmental crap, wouldn’t it be against the cause to start wanting to produce more lithium filled waste?
you sure know what your powerbanks are, right?