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>>jstanl+(OP)
> The battery life seems short. I'm pretty sure that I charged it up to 99% when I plugged it in this afternoon. It's now 10pm and I just went to check something in Firefox and found that the battery has died already. And I haven't exactly been using it heavily. It's possible that I misunderstood how much I had charged it, but so far this is a bad sign.

Battery life is an area that may be difficult for smaller phone makers to compete on. I think Apple especially puts a ton of engineering effort and coordination into making iOS and their apps work efficiently with their hardware, reducing complexity, runtime cycles, and power consumption as much as possible, on top of already highly-efficient ARM hardware.

Over years of doing that (kaizen), the result is optimized hardware/software fusion with industry-leading battery life. But it seems like it takes a non-trivial amount of additional engineering time and effort to accomplish this, that will be difficult to match by smaller mobile tech startups.

I hope the open source community around Librem and Pine will be able to replicate that effort, but I'm not sure this kind of consistent incremental upgrade work is attractive enough to volunteer FOSS developers. And being maximally effective at it most certainly requires the parent company to coordinate the effort across hardware, software, internal teams, and external volunteers.

>>SkyMar+Me
I’ve personally replaced several iPhone batteries. The aftermarket ones don’t seem to last as long as the Apple OEM ones do.

>>wrycod+sg
I remember replacement PSP batteries being similar. It was basically impossible to find third party batteries that were as good as OEM ones, even the ones that advertised higher mah numbers than the stock Sony ones were awful (despite even being physically bigger).

>>p1neco+Ol
Maybe the charger charges differently and with a larger safety margin at 100%[1] when it detects a non-EOM battery?

[1] 100% doesn't mean that the battery is fully charged, it means that the detected level is what the charger is prepared to go to. To conserve battery life it is not uncommon to have a 100% indicator when the battery is only 90% charged, and a 10% indicator when the battery is only 20% charged.