I understand alternate facts. Sometimes my iPhone’s battery meter delivers them. Fact: I have a 18-month-old Apple iPhone 6. I keep it in good shape, never dropping it, subjecting it to extreme ...

While using our laptops, many of us are actually confused about the remaining charge shown by our laptop battery meter, which is available in the taskbar’s notification area. It shows battery power ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Other than the new Search button on the ...

A lithium-ion battery tester seems like a simple project, at least electrically. But when you start thinking about the physical problem of dealing with a huge range of battery sizes, things get a ...

While some consumers get a full day out of a single charge, there are those of us whose batteries die before the end of our day. When that happens there are options like battery packs and charging ...

While browsing apps, we’ve come across a rather interesting one in the Google Play Store. The Charge Meter app basically tells you how fast your Android phone is charging based on the charger you have ...

With the release of Nintendo Switch's 3.0 update, a new bug was introduced causing some users to experience issues with the system's battery indicator. The bug caused the battery indicator to show ...

[Trax] needed an LC meter and decided to use a tried-and-true design to build his own. The only problem was that he didn’t want to be tied to a bench supply or power outlet, which meant a bit of ...

Whether they’re in our computers, cell phones, or cars, the only time we think about batteries is when they’re almost dead and we need to find some place to charge them—and then we’re not thinking ...