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This was a problem with the Fossil Palm PDA watches, where people would buy one that had sat on a shelf for a few months and the battery was deep discharged and they have to be replaced by Fossil for $25. Some people left them plugged in for 12 hours a day, so they could use them all day as a PDA, and they also killed batteries to 1/3 of their expected capacity. I paid $250+ for one of these when they first came out, and it will still run for about 1 day on battery - but now used ones are going for $50, and then people solder an ipod shuffle battery into them for 3-4 days of use between charges.
Glad to hear that battery life will be less of an issue with these. I paid for mine over the weekend, so looking forward to it.
| Originally Posted by jude /img/forum/go_quote.gif One of the biggest fears I have with lithium-ion batteries that have to be manufacture-replaced/serviced is the total service life of the battery. Before ordering, I told Ray of my concern in this regard. He explained the battery charging and discharge technical details to me (don't expect me to recall specific voltage numbers, etc., as I don't remember those now). What I did take away from that discussion was that the Predator has an intelligent charging circuit that prevents overcharging, and, just as importantly, circuitry that pampers the battery by not allowing it to be deep-discharged before cutoff. That is, if you use the Predator until the battery circuitry shuts the unit down (the description says "6-7 days of playback at 8 hours per day on one full charge"), it will have shut the Predator off before the lithium-ion battery was anywhere near being deep-discharged. Theoretically, this should maximize the service life of the lithium-ion battery within. That allayed my battery concerns, and so, again, I have a black on black Predator on order from the first batch. 
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This was a problem with the Fossil Palm PDA watches, where people would buy one that had sat on a shelf for a few months and the battery was deep discharged and they have to be replaced by Fossil for $25. Some people left them plugged in for 12 hours a day, so they could use them all day as a PDA, and they also killed batteries to 1/3 of their expected capacity. I paid $250+ for one of these when they first came out, and it will still run for about 1 day on battery - but now used ones are going for $50, and then people solder an ipod shuffle battery into them for 3-4 days of use between charges.
Glad to hear that battery life will be less of an issue with these. I paid for mine over the weekend, so looking forward to it.
