The secret to longer battery life!
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  If you're like me, you use a lot of different electronic gadgets that enhance your daily life in various ways. Cell phones, iPods, Blackberries, Bluetooth devices, handheld games, etc.. The most frustrating thing about having all these devices is the ever shortening battery life!

  Regardless of what the manufacturers tell you, Lithium Ion batteries do have a "memory" that gets more forgetful the more you charge it. I'm going to let you in on a little secret that will make short battery life a thing of the past!

  Supposedly this memory effect was eradicated with the mass transition to Li-Ion batteries, but anyone with a cell phone will tell you that is simply not true. The more you charge it, the less time that battery lasts. Eventually you are forced to buy a new phone, as the battery typically costs as much as the phone is worth.

  The secret to fixing this problem is simple: Buy a second battery for your phone and then let one completely drain before changing it. If you don't mind shelling out the extra cash right up front, buy it at the same time you buy your phone. Sometimes you can get the phone resellers to throw one in for free, depending on how much you are spending on services they are getting a commission on.

  Personally, I always look on eBay first. You want to find someone selling in your same country (over-seas shipping takes forever!), and you want to look for an OEM battery. The cheap knock-offs are just that: cheap. If the retail price of your battery is $40, expect to pay $15 - $20 shipped for a decent OEM battery.

  Once you have the second battery for your phone, charge it completely. Now simply use the first battery until the phone turns itself off due to low power, then swap out the empty battery with your second one. That is the only way to be sure the battery is completely drained. Li-Ion batteries have intelligent circuits in them to prevent damage to the battery, so don't worry about hurting the battery or your electronic gadget.

 I do this with my battery hog of a Windows Smart Phone, and I can go almost 5 days without having to change batteries.  I even use Bluetooth for my headset and sync, which typically shortens cell phone battery life. Considering most people's batteries are almost dead before they make it home at night, that is an amazing performance gain from such a simple technique.

 So there you have it - a simple and extremely effective way to double or even triple the battery life of any electronic gadget.

-NK5
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