Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:fuk2o9$8h0$1@aioe.org:

> I try to recharge mid-day when possible/convenient, but frankly, I'm
> simply not going to let a $15 battery run my life. If abusing the
> sucker costs me $15/year, so be it. Rather that than turn my
> cellphone into a "corded phone!" ;-)
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What pisses me off is the cheapskate bastards eliminated the CONVENIENT,
EASY-TO-USE, drop in chargers we had on the old flipphones. It gave you a
place to "hang" your phone on your desk or beside your bed so it didn't get
shoved off onto the floor, or worse.....it automatically recharged your
battery WITHOUT you having to fight some damned little USB connector you
can hardly see that MUST be plugged in a certain way, which is really
stupid.

The drop in stand encouraged charging, which I supposed was hard on battery
revenues....

On my desk was a quad, or was it octal, charging stand. Each slot would
charge the phone(s) with battery attached...or...charge an extra battery,
without it being attached to the phone. If you got longwinded, you simply
swapped the easy-to-swap battery pack, which was the back of the phone.
You didn't have to dig around inside some slick, shiny girly case, fight
the damned battery hold down gadget to pry it out without a pry bar, then
replace it all, a real PITA on any new phone, now. No, press the button,
slide the whole back off the phone and slide another one on and you were
ready-to-go.

They talk a lot longer than the POWERFUL old transmitters, due to their
very low power, not some digital magic, now....but their construction, now
just sucks for user convenience.

God I HATE USB charging!