Originally posted by SOldBear Wow, not reliable enough!
LiIon batteries have been around for years and the technology is very mature IMHO.
I myself prefer LiIon. In fact, my Ricoh GX200 can take either proprietary LiIon battery or alkaline/oxyride/Ni-MH AAA batteries, I tried AAA batteries only once just for testing.
Well, all those LiIon batteries are proprietary to each device. And they require proprietary chargers.
Exploding / fire catching LiIon batteries have made the news and will again.
They don't keep their charge. They die when you leave on a shelf for a few years.
I wish my cell phone could use AAA instead of Li-On so I could change the battery at little cost. After 1-2 years the battery life is clearly much less.
My sister in France had a stack of LiIon batteries for her Canon camcorder. None of them work anymore, and it's not from much use. They just sat there.
Same thing happened to the batteries for my camcorder.
Give me Eneloops any day over these crappy LiIon.