Cordless Phones with High Tech Batteries?

ewieling asks: "I will be replacing my current corless phone soon and was wondering if there are any cordless (not Cell) phones that have something better than a NiCad battery. My current cordless phone had great battery life when I first bought it, but soon the battery life degraded until now I only get about 10 mins of talk time out of it. I tried to avoid the 'memory' problems of NiCad batteries, but I still get very little talk time now. My current cordless phone is a high end (at the time I bought it) Panasonic with a keypad, LCD display, speaker phone and headset jack on BOTH the base station and the cordless handset and uses the 2.4 Ghz range, but it still only has a NiCad battery. Can anyone help me find a good cordless phone with the above features that uses better battery technology."

Comments

Battery Bashing

[evilviper]

I hate battery bashing...

There is nothing wrong with your NiCads. They can be just as powerful, and be recharged just as many times as LI & NiMH. In fact panasonic made 1100mAH AA NiCad batteries (if only they'd boosted the voltage as well, they could have been Alkaline Killers).

The problem is simply stupid NiCad chargers. People know that they can handle being overcharged, so everyone has something about as complex as an AC adapter to charge them.

LI & NiMH batteries just get the good quality rechargers. That's why they fare so much better. The only legitimate complaint about NiCads I've heard, is that they don't have keep their charge for months at a time like other batteries. That may be true, but it's not a big of an issue all that often.

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why rechargable battery makers don't put out 1.5V rechargeable batteries and kill off alkalines once and for all?