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

Bigger capacities are great, but are there any trade-offs with these new silicon carbon batteries?

Mar 19, 2025 - 14:27
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Should you buy a phone with a silicon-carbon battery? Here’s the catch
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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.