Located in the back of your cell phone is the key to the power that allows you to talk for hours, the cell phone battery. Cell phone batteries vary is size, shape, and color even. The batteries are exclusive to specific cell phones sadly. There are also some things you must to do in order to keep your cell phone battery in the best working condition, as well as not letting it "fall in the toilet".
Take care of your cell phone battery and it will take care of youNow normally a cell phone battery will consist of 3 power level bars, that can easily bee seen on the screen of your cell phone, or on the window if you have a flip phone. A charger is needed to recharge the cell phone battery, either a car or wall plug in charger are usually available for every cell phone. A new cell phone is uncharged and will need to be charged for usually about 14 hours or so before use, letting the battery fully charge may make the biggest difference in your cell phone battery than you know. Conditions that zap your cell phone battery lifeThere are many conditions that will zap the life right out of your cell phone battery.
Nobody wants to phone me,
Even collect.
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)
A leading cause of the death of cell phone batteries is heat, which sometimes comes from overheating. Overheating can be caused by over charging your cell phone. You can over charge your cell phone by repeatedly turn it on and off while it is charging, but the phone may also not know when it is fully charged so it keeps absorbing power. Heat can also zap your cell phone battery, extreme heat is strongly not advised. Different batteries, different faultsThere are three main types of cell phone batteries that are used in cell phone, NiMH.
(Nickel Metal Hydride), Li-Ion (Lithium-Ion), and Nickel Cadmium (NiCd). Each kind has it's pros and cons. NiCd batteries were the most common when cell phones first came out, but they have 2 drawbacks, which mean that most quality phones that are sold now do not contain them. NiCd batteries are not environmentally safe, the chemicals from the waste is an issue. With NiCd batteries you have to let the charge completely run out before recharging it, if you do not then the phone will basically set itself at the charge level of a low battery life all the time. NiMH batteries differ from the NiCd batteries in size and capacity, and claim to not have the "memory problem" that NiCd batteries do, but they don't seem to last as long as the NiCd batteries tend to. Li-Ion batteries are the newest and greatest technology in cell phones, you can charge this phone whenever you want to and it will not harm the battery life. The one drawback for Li-Ion batteries is that they tend to be far more expensive then the other types of batteries.
You hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead.
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)