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Old 10-20-2009, 11:24 PM   #7
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Hooded Claw,

I think that more than a grain of salt is in order; Wired’s reviewer seems to have made an extrapolation based the battery manufacturer’s claims. They will typically pull a battery from a production run and, fairly quickly, cycle it through 500 charge-discharge cycles, and then test the battery. This has nothing to do with the battery life in terms of months, only charge cycles. Best guess: If you treat it nice, it will last a long time--HYMMV.

For anybody who's interested, Sony has a pretty good manual on Lithium-Ion-Poly batteries.


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