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To: Javelyn Bjoli who wrote (1254)11/4/1997 12:35:00 PM
From: barrcuda  Read Replies (1) of 27311
 
Javelyn,
I work in a comm shop that supplies both two way radios and cell phones to a company with about 10,000 employees. The new phones we are getting in from Motorola are coming with LI ion batteries. They work on the old flip phones as well as Motorola's new phones. They provide about the same talk time as the Hi Cap NiMh batteries. The big differance I can see is 1. they are lighter. 2. they are smaller. 3. They only loose about 1 percent of their charge a day and 4. they cost us $140. verses $50. for the NiMh battery. They also can be charged with an old style charger but the warning that comes with the battery claims better performance with an E.P (Expert Performance) charger. That's what Motorola is calling these batteries.

Personaly, I feel like that's a lot of money differential for what you gain but hopefully with economy of scale these prices will come down. There was a similar differance in price between Nicad and NiMh when NiMh batteries were first introduced just a short while ago.
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