An update on the Farphone's battery

Why not just have the charge controller "unplug" it if the battery is full?

The real question is "what the hell is a farphone"?

While I’ve seen plenty of swollen and deformed phone batteries, I’ve never personally seen one that has burned. Obviously it’s happened in the past with certain phone/battery models, but I’d imagine that it’s actually very rare now days?

On the other hand, I have seen cheap 18650s spontaneously start smoking even when they weren’t plugged in to anything…

I would have hooked the smartphone to a small solar panel. The natural daylight cycle would have made sure that the smartphone kept having charging and discharging cycles.

I doubt the traffic hitting it would be sufficient to drain the battery overnight.

So the Fairphone 2 runs on just a USB cable with no battery inside?

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