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To: JGoren who wrote (23456)	2/25/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

To all - lithium (cell phone) battery "I bet you did not know this" tidbit. When I was about to leave for the annual meeting, I knew that my (Qualcomm) cell phone battery was only about 80 or 90% charged; so I figured I'd "fill 'er up." (Let's hope Tero contains himself now with regard to Nokia's non-CDMA handsets' standby capacity). Much to my surprise, the re-charging process took about five hours (the same as when re-charging a nearly "dead" battery). I asked a Qualcomm employee (who was "manning" a product display table before the meeting) about this, and he told me the following : When recharging a lithium battery, the charger (San Diego charger (?)) takes the battery down to 0% and then back up to 100%. This was news to me. I am surprised that whatever is in the charger can do anything more than just "re-vamp" the 110 volt alternating current that comes out of the wall. Jon.