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Originally Posted by TurboFool
While true, you'll also find the common contradiction from the exact same resources that says you need to deep charge the battery a few times when it's new before you'll get the full life.
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Where does it say that? This has been discussed to death on the Diamond forum (it's practically the same phone).
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Lithium-ion is a low maintenance battery, an advantage that most other chemistries cannot claim. There is no memory and no scheduled cycling is required to prolong the battery's life. In addition, the self-discharge is less than half compared to nickel-cadmium, making lithium-ion well suited for modern fuel gauge applications. lithium-ion cells cause little harm when disposed.
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Advantages
- High energy density - potential for yet higher capacities.
- Does not need prolonged priming when new. One regular charge is all that's needed.
- Relatively low self-discharge - self-discharge is less than half that of nickel-based batteries.
- Low Maintenance - no periodic discharge is needed; there is no memory.
- Specialty cells can provide very high current to applications such as power tools.
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Source:
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-5.htm