Which expensive battery will die first?
Nov. 18th, 2009 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneMy iPod is now three years old and my cell phone is four. Wow, four? Maybe it's only three. I want to say I bought it the same weekend I worked my first weekend shift at IBM Rational, which would've been September 2005. However this phone wasn't introduced until April of 2006 according to one web site I was reading. Hmmm... maybe they're about the same age.
Neither has a particularly replaceable battery. I know how to spudge open an iPod and in theory I could replace the battery myself. The cell phone has a battery I can pop right out but the model is so out of date that I bet it'd cost more to replace it than it would to get a new phone on a two-year plan. In both cases I've wanted to upgrade, so I would.
The first one to die is of course the first one to be replaced immediately. No, I'm not interested in merging these objects -- I hate the thought of having two of my methods for sanity (calling people to meet up with them and putting on music to tune out the voices in my head) merging into one fragile, taxed object. I beat up my cell phone but I'm a lot more polite with my iPod.
Although the best practices for rechargeable batteries vary by chemical composition, I have used a simple approach. The iPod seems to age when you let it discharge completely, so I tend to get it on the charger the moment it shows red. The phone has a less granular metering display (three bars, two, one, flashing and beeping every twenty minutes for a couple hours to drain it even faster) so I get it on the charger as soon as it reaches one bar. Also, it doesn't matter as much if I'm stranded and my iPod is out of juice but it'd really matter if my cell was dead.
But hey, now I can afford to be amused by this. I know which iPod I want (Classic, which has 160 GB of space) but not which cell phone. I'm not going to leave TMobile since I like having international coverage (GMS), so I need to wade through the pile of quad-band flip or slide phones. Anyone got advice?
Neither has a particularly replaceable battery. I know how to spudge open an iPod and in theory I could replace the battery myself. The cell phone has a battery I can pop right out but the model is so out of date that I bet it'd cost more to replace it than it would to get a new phone on a two-year plan. In both cases I've wanted to upgrade, so I would.
The first one to die is of course the first one to be replaced immediately. No, I'm not interested in merging these objects -- I hate the thought of having two of my methods for sanity (calling people to meet up with them and putting on music to tune out the voices in my head) merging into one fragile, taxed object. I beat up my cell phone but I'm a lot more polite with my iPod.
Although the best practices for rechargeable batteries vary by chemical composition, I have used a simple approach. The iPod seems to age when you let it discharge completely, so I tend to get it on the charger the moment it shows red. The phone has a less granular metering display (three bars, two, one, flashing and beeping every twenty minutes for a couple hours to drain it even faster) so I get it on the charger as soon as it reaches one bar. Also, it doesn't matter as much if I'm stranded and my iPod is out of juice but it'd really matter if my cell was dead.
But hey, now I can afford to be amused by this. I know which iPod I want (Classic, which has 160 GB of space) but not which cell phone. I'm not going to leave TMobile since I like having international coverage (GMS), so I need to wade through the pile of quad-band flip or slide phones. Anyone got advice?
