Your phone is designed to last for only a year – Telemarksavisa

Mobile phones have within few years evolved to be a significant investment. Increasingly sophisticated handsets makes prices go up, while more and more manufacturers set up prices for Norwegians because the dollar is becoming increasingly expensive.

But the phones are becoming more expensive, does not mean that they keep mentioning anymore.

HOLDER A YEAR OF ACTIVE USE

If you use your phone active, it is according to Battery University so that the battery in your phone is not meant to hold more than a mere year.

The modern batteries used in mobile phones and electric cars, are losing significant capacity as they are used. How much capacity is reduced depends on a number of factors such as temperature, using quick charger and how much you charge the battery before recharging it again – but most important of all is how often the battery is charging.

The lithium based batteries used today are defined to have reached its end of life when they can no longer provide 70-75 percent of capacity they had when they were new.

Getting there may happen sooner than you think . If you every day uses up all of the power on your phone, be it no more than 300-500 charge cycles to – about a year – before the batteries have expired.

IPHONE PLUS HOLDER MORE

However, if you charge your handset when the battery is half empty, so you can charge your phone 1200-1500 times, according to the reputable website.

The figures assume that the phone is exposed to “normal” use, which presupposes that phone is not charging all night. Batteries keeps namely better if they are not fully charged at all times. Sitting charger throughout the night kept the battery fully charged almost a third of the day. Therefore, you should ideally charge during the day.

This creates a rather special side effect: Most people will have noticed that a regular iPhone has a battery that must be recharged every day, while big brother iPhone Plus gladly hold for two days. Thus, the battery of the most expensive of these two make sure the phone in practice hold much longer.

– As a mechanical ding that wear out with heavy use, so also affects how much you charge the battery how many charge cycles to execute. The more power you let it be left in the battery between charges, the longer the battery will hold. If possible you should avoid draining the battery – lithium batteries can be recharged fine blot, writes Battery University.

According to the website approximately tripled the number of charge cycles you can implement if you only timber half the battery before recharging. It does not mean that the battery is three times as long, since you only get exploited half the battery life this way.

ARE OFTEN WORSE THAN NOTED FIRST

The graph shows how much of capacity of a battery is left after being discharged and charged a given number of times. Also note that none of the batteries actually have anywhere near the stated capacity already at the first discharge.

Battery University also state that the batteries are usually considerably worse than indicated already the first time they are taken into use .

– Although a battery should provide 100 percent of capacity at first, it is common to see a capacity lower than stated. The reasons for this may be that they are already saved a while, and besides, manufacturers tend to overestimate their own products – they know that few consumers will complain.

– Besides one knows that as long as it is celled products, such as mobile phones and tablets, so should not be more cells matched exactly. This opens to let through batteries with far greater margin of error. This sends many batteries with inferior performance to customers without anyone noticing, claims the website.