cellular phone batteries, don't get caught with no battery
Cellular phone batteries can cause major headaches. Who hasn't experienced the dreaded low battery warnings right in the middle of an important phone call? It's one of those things that always happen in the worst possible moment. So, what can we do to prevent us from cursing cellular phone batteries?
Well, like ever other battery, cellular phone batteries have an active life of a few hundred charging cycles. After that, their performance will steadily decrease until they won't be usable at all. Luckily, the Li-Ion batteries so common these days, don't suffer from the memory effect that plagued older NiCd batteries. You can charge them at any moment without degrading its performance never the less, you should still only charge it when the battery is getting low.
Whatever cons they might have, cellular phone batteries are responsible for one of the most amazing pieces of technology we carry around every day. Tiny cell phones, capable of connecting us to the entire world and the internet, playing MP3, taking pictures It seems amazing all that power comes from those small batteries.
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