I'm sure alot of you people do NOT charge there batteries the way the should.

So, here is the best internet site to learn howto obtain the best quality of your battery:

Battery University

This is a MUST READ!!!

Nice site. Tons of great info.

Thanks,

@Ginz

Very useful indeed, thank you for posting that.

Very interesting, plenty to digest there!

I have to admit it's rather a hard habit to break, trying not to fully discharge a Li-Ion battery, a part of me still gets worried about the memory effect even though they evidently don't suffer from this!

there are many battery discussions on various forums and sites like battery university are a good read but honestly, who can really be bothered to even think about all this?

I usually charge over night each night but if I'm away and the battery gets low I don't even give it a second thought.

I do think batteries are fairly tolerant these days and even with my bad habits its been years since I had to buy a replacement battery because a battery failed to perform adequatley

I do think battery technology is the slowest growth area of modern electronics and I look forward to the time when batteries last for months and years!

@masseur

Battery technology certainly isn't improving at anywhere near the rate needed to keep up with rising power consumption. I really wish the manufacturers would concentrate on that for a while.

I totally agree, because not many companies make batteries of the same size of that inside the K700 but have say 10X the power, the limiting factor would therefore be Price of the product.
Even though there is the capacity to create such an item parts would still make to costly.

But saying that I read something very interesting at work recently
"Bluetooth battery charging"

Lots of potential me thinks

Seems impossible. Wireless power supplie ???

Very very good site. Thank you very much!

To think that all, but I mean ALL the dealers or salles persons told me (and everybody I know) to charge their new phones (with Li-ion batteries) for 10 hours the first 4 charges...
It seemed verry odd to me that doing so ("formating the battery") had absolutely no effect on any of the 5 phones my family has up to date. Also, it was even stranger that not even the phone manuals or guides said anything about this. I mean, if I was producing phones, I had the best interest that my customers would have a good experience with their batteries. And still, as I said, no mobile phone manufacter sais to charge for 10 hours...

In stead, exactly as the quoted site suggests to do after a longer period of storage (such as staying on the shelf, waiting for a buyer ), the user guides say something like this in the first chapter, usualy titled Assembling, or Basic instructions:

"Step 1: Take off the back cover
Step 2: Take off the battery
Step 3: Insert SIM card
Step 4: Put back battery and cover.
Step 5: Plug in the charger and wait for the battery indicator to be full
Step 6: Unplug the charger
Step 7: Power up your phone."

Charging my Sendo M550, SE K700, Nokia 1600, SE W810, LG KP100 for 10 hours the first 4 charges didn't make any difference in battery performance...

All I need now is to buy a multimeter to check the voltage of my old rechargable phone batteries which I intend to store.. nobody knows when I'd might need them