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Weekend poll: When do you charge your smartphone? (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Overnight. I find that "fast charging" as a feature is just a crutch for not having enough battery life to last a day. Why would I ever want to carry a bulky charger around all day instead of just having a phone that's 1mm thicker?

oh right it's to make us buy more accessories

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks to overnight slow charging, swappable batteries, and a magnetic charge coupler, my S5 from 2014 still works great. I use it in the shower for tunes, and drag it to appointments to use the IR blaster to turn off fox news in waiting rooms.

So, in a way, it's also to make us buy more phones.