Should you buy a phone with a silicon-carbon battery? Here’s the catch

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Battery life; we can never have enough of it. Even though most smartphones from the past few years will easily take you through a day of use and possibly even two, the oldies among us still pine for those good old days when a single charge was enough to take your feature phone through a busy week. Thankfully, battery engineers are on the case, and many of today’s best flagship smartphones are now shipping with new silicon carbon batteries. This allows them to boast even larger battery capacities without a thicker or larger chassis. Talk about a major win. For example, the OnePlus 13 packs a 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, allowing for an increase on last year’s 5,400mAh cell. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra also boasts a colossal 6,000mAh battery capacity in China, up from 5,400mAh in the previous year (and a still decent 5,400mAh for global markets, up from 5,000mAh), and the smaller models benefit from similar gains, too. The HONOR Magic 7 Pro, OPPO Find X8, ... Read full article.