I used to accept that lithium batteries degrade fast and that’s just a fact of life, nothing we can do, no reason to blame phone manufacturers.
Then I realized my GameBoy Advance SP uses a lithium battery. So does my Steam Deck. And several cheap Chinese devices I bought… And every single one of these batteries massively outlast the durability of all phones I’ve ever had, and they age much more graciously.
Yes. More often than the phones, especially the Steam Deck, a device that places SIGNIFICANTLY more stress on the battery. The GBA not so much nowadays… but used to, yes.
I used to accept that lithium batteries degrade fast and that’s just a fact of life, nothing we can do, no reason to blame phone manufacturers.
Then I realized my GameBoy Advance SP uses a lithium battery. So does my Steam Deck. And several cheap Chinese devices I bought… And every single one of these batteries massively outlast the durability of all phones I’ve ever had, and they age much more graciously.
Do you use those other devices from full to low battery every day?
Yes. More often than the phones, especially the Steam Deck, a device that places SIGNIFICANTLY more stress on the battery. The GBA not so much nowadays… but used to, yes.
I do wonder how much heat affects the batteries in steam decks. Phones have passive heat dissipation.