Comments on: Top 5 Curve accessories for the BlackBerry Geek http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-accessories/top-5-curve-accessories-for-the-blackberry-geek-882910/ Industry coverage, news, original feature articles, how to guides, videos, podcasts and reviews of BlackBerry service providers, software, accessories, hosted exchange providers and more Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Salerno http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-accessories/top-5-curve-accessories-for-the-blackberry-geek-882910/comment-page-1/#comment-12369 John Salerno Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:40:27 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=2910#comment-12369 "I can’t tell you how many people tell me that it’s best to let the battery discharge completely, and then charge it all the way back up. With nickel-cadmium batteries, this was the case. With modern lithium-ion batteries, such as the ones you find in your BlackBerrys, laptops, etc., it’s best to charge them at around 50 percent, letting the battery get to the “low-battery” point about once every 30 charges. Case in point for this: at a conference this winter, a colleague noticed that I left my laptop plugged in all day. He told me that was bad for the battery. I asked him how long his two-year-old battery held a charge for. About an hour, he said. My two-year-old battery still held a charge for nearly three hours. Just to illustrate the point." Just about everything you said in this paragraph is completely the opposite of the prevailing answers I've read about this topic. 1. It's NOT good to fully discharge nickel batteries. 2. There's no reason to think it's best to discharge a LiIon battery to 50% or let it get to "low battery" once in 30 charges. 3. Not sure what point you're making about leaving the laptop battery charged in, but this doesn't hurt (or help) either. “I can’t tell you how many people tell me that it’s best to let the battery discharge completely, and then charge it all the way back up. With nickel-cadmium batteries, this was the case. With modern lithium-ion batteries, such as the ones you find in your BlackBerrys, laptops, etc., it’s best to charge them at around 50 percent, letting the battery get to the “low-battery” point about once every 30 charges. Case in point for this: at a conference this winter, a colleague noticed that I left my laptop plugged in all day. He told me that was bad for the battery. I asked him how long his two-year-old battery held a charge for. About an hour, he said. My two-year-old battery still held a charge for nearly three hours. Just to illustrate the point.”

Just about everything you said in this paragraph is completely the opposite of the prevailing answers I’ve read about this topic.

1. It’s NOT good to fully discharge nickel batteries.

2. There’s no reason to think it’s best to discharge a LiIon battery to 50% or let it get to “low battery” once in 30 charges.

3. Not sure what point you’re making about leaving the laptop battery charged in, but this doesn’t hurt (or help) either.

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