Cell Phone Battery Types

There are four main types of cell phone battery in use today and they are as follows:

* Li-Poly (Lithium Polymer)
* Li-Ion (Lithium Ion)
* NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride)
* NiCad (Nickel Cadmium)

Lithium Polymer or Li-Poly cell phone batteries are super lightweight and will not explode when crushed. These are considered to be the most advanced technology in the area of cell phone batteries.

With this type of cell phone battery, the operative part is enclosed in plastic pouches instead of hard metal casings. This flexibility translates to limitless battery shapes so that cell phone batteries can better mold smaller or oddly shaped phones.

Lithium Polymer cell phone batteries have many of the same features as Lithium Ion batteries, but are lighter and flexible.

Both Lithium Polymer and Lithium Ion batteries biggest advantage is that they do not have a 憁emory?of how low their power was when they were placed in the charger.

Traditional batteries, even the metal hydrides used today, though not as noticeable, all have a peculiar tendency to reset their capacity according to how much power still remained when the battery is charged. So if we charge our cell phone battery when it is not dead, over time we condition the battery to 憈hink?that it抯 empty when it may have 50% or even a full amount of power.

Many people claim that Nickel Metal Hydride batteries do not suffer from the memory effect at all. Metal hydride cell phone batteries are an improvement over Nickel Cadmium batteries and tend to last 30-40% longer for every charge.

Nickel Cadmium cell hone batteries do suffer from the memory effect. If you ever had a Nickel Cadmium cell phone battery you may have noticed this. Over time your phone just couldn't hold as much of a charge. If you do own a Nickel Cadmium cell phone battery you can help the issue by waiting until your cell phone battery is as low as possible before charging it.