[ale] [Semi-ot rant] Why is obtaining a cell phone battery such a degrading experience?

[dev null zero two]

I have bought spare Anker batteries for my last three cellphones from
Amazon and they all work fine (though you have to buy special ones if you
want NFC, but I don't really care about that).

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:17:16PM -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> >    Am I the only person that keeps their android smartphone more than a
> >    year?
>
> Nope. Going on three with my current one.
>
> >   Because the new ones aren't any better and I'm grandfathered
> >    into an unlimited Verizon data plan?
>
> Understood.
>
> >    But try to get a battery - sheesh.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >    After looking all over, I call BatteryMonster and they swear these are
> >    new OEM batteries.
> >    So, I order 2 of them.
> >    Today they showup:
> >        The color of the label is wrong.
> >        The label doesn't fit snugly on the plastic case.
> >        They BOTH have the SAME serial#.  My two genuine HTC batteries
> have
> >    different ones, and the later one has.......wait for it....... a
> higher
> >    serial#.
> >        That Serial number is LOWER than the serial number on my original
> >    battery which is now three years old.
>
> Typical.
>
> >    In short, these are obvious counterfeits.  They copied the same label
> >    from years ago and slap it on every one they crank out.
> >    I dunno.  What do I expect.   I call HTC and they say they aren't
> >    making replacement BTR6425B batteries anymore.
> >    But given that these batteries are known to sometimes explode and
> burn,
> >    one would like to avoid unknowns.
>
> I've tried at least 4 different batteries in my Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket
> and each and every one was much worse than the 2+ YO OEM battery the phone
> came with.
>
> I wish there were a solid solution to the problem.
>
> BAJ
>
>
>
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> Byron A. Jeff
> Chair: Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
> College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
> Clayton State University
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