Batteries, quite the price range

[boomerang]

The battery in my wife's phone has started discharging rather quickly. She used to be able to go all day with it but now in the afternoon it needs to go on the charger. It also won't accept a full charge. We have the same phone so I swapped batteries and the problem has moved now to my phone. So, it's the battery.

I see batteries from $7 to $40. There are a ton of sellers out there just wondering if anyone knows who to stay away from or has a recommendation. What concerns me about the lower priced batteries is that even though some appear to be Samsung branded, the seller doesn't state that they are new and doesn't state that they are pulls. They do say, 'not in factory packaging' which tells me they are either used, crap knock-offs or perhaps stolen.

 

[Zaap]

I'd avoid any supposedly OEM branded battery priced unusually low. They're almost all fakes. Even on Amazon. Amazing the amount of fake stuff supposedly sold by big companies like Samsung and even Apple on legit sites like Amazon. No idea how anyone gets away with it.

Personally I like the brand Anker for batteries. Their stuff is a good combo of cheap price/ as high quality as original /authentic as no one (yet) bothers to knock them off.

 

[boomerang]

Thanks, I have bought an Anker replacement for a laptop a while back and I have no complaints. For the sake of interest, I am going to hold off for a bit. The battery discharge rate when it's in my phone is looking like it will last the whole day for me. My phone usage is pretty much exponentially less that hers. Her phone will be paid up on the Edge program in March so I'm going to try and hold out until then. I'm still up in the air on which direction we'll go at that time.