Many cellphones use Lithium Ion Polymer batteries.  These have the great advantage of being rechargable, small, maleable, and light weight.  These batteries provide the back bone for almost all wireless mobile phones. 

However, like all good things, there is a small dark side. These batteries have charging cycles or cycle lives.  Each time you charge your phone device it uses a charging cycle or life.  Think of this as a cat with nine lives.  Once you’ve escaped death nine times, the tenth attempt won’t be as past experiences.  Once a cycle life is used, it is lost forever. 

Batteries generally ship with 500-800 cycle lives/charging cycles.  Read the rest of this entry »

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