{"id":945,"date":"2007-05-17T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/c75bb961c671d4019d3c608f878fe187"},"modified":"2007-05-17T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T19:54:09","slug":"mobile-batteries-cheap-and-nasty-or-expensive-what-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Mobile batteries, cheap and nasty, or expensive; what a choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need a battery for my mobile phone and needless to say my first port of call was eBay. There are many different options, but fundamentally most seem a lot cheaper than they should be. Some are as low as $10, but the real price is closer to $60. <\/p>\n<p>What's the difference? <\/p>\n<p>Well, unless you are very very lucky, the cheaper battery wont be genuine (no matter what the seller says), and probably wont charge or last more than a couple of hours. I know this from bitter experience - twice (once with a battery for the camera, the other for my phone). <\/p>\n<p>I should know better of course, but when you see a good bargain, we are almost conditioned to leap at the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=gVlygi\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=gVlygi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/117524202\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need a battery for my mobile phone and needless to say my first port of call was eBay. There are many different options, but fundamentally most seem a lot cheaper than they should be. Some are as low as $10, but the real price is closer to $60. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference? <\/p>\n<p>Well, unless you are very very lucky, the cheaper battery wont be genuine (no matter what the seller says), and probably wont charge or last more than a couple of hours. I know this from bitter experience &#8211; twice (once with a battery for the camera, the other for my phone). <\/p>\n<p>I should know better of course, but when you see a good bargain, we are almost conditioned to leap at the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=gVlygi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=gVlygi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/117524202\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}