Phone Battery Blues: The 5 Stages of Grief and Your Dying Device

You've seen it at the club. A desperate friend, begging the bartender for a socket. You've been a support network for it at the office, frantically fishing through your stuff for a compatible charger. You've even experienced it yourself

And it hurts

Oh, it hurts. A dying smartphone battery is a terrible thing to bear.

In fact, the process of watching your phone's power bar shrink to that tiny nub — knowing that you've still got hours before you can bring its battery back to life — triggers a kind of tragedy-reaction you probably thought came only with sick pets and other awful life events. But it's true for your trusty smartphone as well. We grieve Read more...

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Phone Battery Blues: The 5 Stages of Grief and Your Dying Device