Six truths about your phone battery life: Overheating, fast charging and overcharging

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Six truths about your phone battery life: Overheating, fast charging and overcharging - cnet

We asked experts what fast chargers do to our phone's battery over time and how to extend its life. Here's what we learned.

Battery life has become a primary concern for phone owners. As we do more with our phones over more hours, the importance of all-day battery life on a single charge has become one of the key features that an average buyer looks for, after screen size. Battery life is even more important than an excellent camera, according to Kantar's Worldpanel ComTech Q3 2019 study. The same concern applies to battery longevity over the entire lifetime of your device.

The growing emphasis on battery life is one reason why fast chargers are so ubiquitous. If the battery threatens to drain before the end of the day, refilling the battery fast is the next best thing. A 10-minute charge could make the difference between having to go into an austere power-saving mode or losing power completely before you get home.
 
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