In a world where batteries are nigh-irreplaceable for non-experts, I’m personally happy to keep using lithium-ion that deteriorates more slowly than silicon-carbon.
The slightly faster charging means almost nothing to me because I’m already charging at night, and any charging I do during the day as an emergency can get me to enough to last the rest of the day in maybe 15 minutes.
The better energy density is more realistically going to translate into manufacturers making the battery smaller. Larger capacity basically wouldn’t matter to me; capped at 80%, my phone battery after over 3 years still gets me through a day and a half.
Makes more sense for a flip phone, but then I’d see a horizontally folding flip phone as the dumbest possible model I could get. At least a vertically folding one has some potential interesting uses even if it’s way more liable to break and more expensive than a non-fold.
In a world where batteries are nigh-irreplaceable for non-experts, I’m personally happy to keep using lithium-ion that deteriorates more slowly than silicon-carbon.
The slightly faster charging means almost nothing to me because I’m already charging at night, and any charging I do during the day as an emergency can get me to enough to last the rest of the day in maybe 15 minutes.
The better energy density is more realistically going to translate into manufacturers making the battery smaller. Larger capacity basically wouldn’t matter to me; capped at 80%, my phone battery after over 3 years still gets me through a day and a half.
Makes more sense for a flip phone, but then I’d see a horizontally folding flip phone as the dumbest possible model I could get. At least a vertically folding one has some potential interesting uses even if it’s way more liable to break and more expensive than a non-fold.
My phone charges zero to full in like 20 minutes, what do people need these days?