[MacPC]

Hi,

I always hear that the iPhone battery is good for X amount of charges, (1000 if I remember correctly.) I don't really understand what the x amount of charges mean, does it mean after I exceed the x amount, the battery dies? I have my iPhone 3G for over a year, I use my iPhone a lot so the battery doesn't last long, whenever it's possible, at home or in the office, I plug it in and charge it to keep the battery fully charged. But does it mean every time I plug it in, it counts as one charge? If so, I must have exceeded 7000 charges by now and it's still working. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks.

[mduell]

As Apple explains on their battery site, it's cumulative full cycles.

When you hit the rated number of cycles your battery doesn't go dead, it's just expected to have reached a degraded (80% of original capacity) state.