Battery Life?

They don't really tend to 'die' anymore. you'll lose about 20% charge after a year's normal use, but that's normal for a li-ion cell

Ok then so instead of completely dying as years pass by their battery life just starts dipleating right? and eventually dies...

I've had mine for about a year and a half, and I already see a significant decrease in battery life. Here's a tip: Don't recharge it until it goes dead. Frequent recharging will deplete the battery faster. I should know, don't make the same mistake I did.:\

Here's Apple's page on the iPod Battery.

quote SonicHero12

Here's a tip: Don't recharge it until it goes dead. Frequent recharging will deplete the battery faster.

Actually recharging the battery when it isn't depleted isn't what causes the battery to no longer hold a charge. That only happens with older NiCd batteries. As a matter of fact, Li-Ions aren't supposed to go below a certain voltage, so it has a circuit the shuts off the battery when it reaches a certain voltage. The age and how often a Lithium-Ion battery is used will determine how much of a charge it can hold.

The older a Li-Ion battery, the less of a charge it can hold. It doesn't matter if you don't use it, it ages. The number of times you recharge the battery does have an effect on the battery life as it will hold less and less of a charge for each full recharge (or equivalent in partial recharges). If the battery is hot, it will go through a charge faster than a colder one, so you'll have to recharge it more often causing the battery to lose charge quicker.