Are You Charging Your iPhone Properly? I Wasn’t
My iPhone has a lithium battery, and our engineer Matt noticed that I had very little charge left on it - somewhere around 7%. He said "you are going to send your phone to an early grave like that"....
He explained to me that the "old" style of battery, the nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cad) battery, was the battery that you were supposed to charge fully, and then allow to discharge fully before recharging, fully, of course. This article from Gizmodo explains the ins-and-outs of charging your battery in a manner that will ensure a full life. Battery life, that is....
(Via Gizmodo)