Legit but perhaps ignorant question: My understanding is that the kinds of non-removable rechargeable batteries used in e-devices are good for 200-400 recharge cycles (and our Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is starting to have shorter recharge cycles). If that's still true...
Stephen Mack
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...then, given that the Apple Watch (18 hours on a charge) effectively needs to be recharged every single day, does that mean that $349 to $17,000 (plus the mandatory iPhone 5 or above) is for about a year's use? What am I missing?
- walt crawford
[I'll check back in an hour or two; off to sift through dirt and grass, then go recheck possible places where wedding ring might have disappeared to.]
- walt crawford
wedding ring disappeared? oh noes! (spouse lost his years ago; he only paid $5 for it, anticipating its eventual loss)
- Stephan!e•CogSc!L!brar!an
Update: Wedding ring found (in the first bucket of dirt and grass). Crisis averted. Will go tomorrow to see about getting balls added to inside of ring (like wife has).
- walt crawford
Oh I'm so glad you found it!!!! *HUGS*
- Hedgehog
^^^ great news about the ring!
- Marie
I thought it was 800-1000 recharge cycles to get the battery down to 80% of original capacity.
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
Andrew: 800-1000 would be more like it, but that's not what I'm seeing (of course, that's still only 2.5-3 years, but...) Link for that? I looked at The Universal Reference Source, of course.
- walt crawford
I read it somewhere on lifehack-type articles. This isn't where I read it, but it's close: https://gigaom.com/2013...
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
Thanks. If notebook batteries (usually replaceable) are the same chemistry as "smartstuff" batteries (usually not), that's promising. (I'm not likely to buy an Apple Watch, so it's a different sort of curiosity. My Timex works just fine.)
- walt crawford
I've read the same advice (including life cycle stats) for smartphone batteries. I thought they were all Li-ion now.
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
Maybe I just got bad advice elsewhere. Anyway, thanks for the pointer.
- walt crawford