Battery life is very important to a lot of smartphone users. It is very important, period. This is because we carry our phones around everywhere we go. Imagine your battery running down somewhere where there are no charging stations or worse, no electricity. This means that you are going to be carrying a dead phone […]

Our phones run on electricity provided by the batteries inside them. We cannot understand how batteries work fully without understanding some battery specifics like voltage, current, resistance and power. These concepts are very key to how batteries operate and how you can care for them. Understanding the concepts of voltage current resistance and power would […]

You see it on the TV, you hear it on the radio and you read about it online. Smartphone battery capacity is a battlefield for advertisers, marketers, salespeople and companies. “Our latest phone has a 6,000mAh battery and it will keep you online for days without recharging”, some boldly claim. Read: Types of Smartphone batteries […]

The Lithium ion vs Lithium polymer batteries debate has been around for a bit now. Now while most consumers may not really be bothered. It would be interesting to know which is the better choice and why? A Lithium ion battery Lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries have been around now for over 30 years. First adopted […]

A battery can be defined as a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. Smartphones are the devices of interest here and there are different types of Smartphone batteries in use today. Read: How Smartphone batteries work Do you know the different types of smartphone batteries in […]

Smartphone batteries are one of the most important parts of a smartphone today. Without them our phones won’t power on or stay on for long. You must have heard people complain about how their smartphone batteries work poorly or do not last very long. Everyone now wants their next phone to come with a huge […]

For a while now, the terms Screen on time and battery performance have been used together in the same sentence. This is usually when smartphone users talk about how long their phones can last on a single charge or how well their batteries perform. Manufacturers use it in adverts too to describe how long a […]