[michaelmrose]

I believe the reason is typically because they want to make the design of chargers cheaper and the circuitry inside simpler and ergo cheaper as well. What you want has a slightly higher unit cost and in 99.99% of cases doesn't impact the users usage.

Laptops are designed to run off battery or power because this is how many people typically use laptops. They plug them in places where they use them for long periods of time whereas phones are virtually always charged for a short period of time often overnight and then carried around and used unplugged virtually all of the time.

I have found the best solution to be to acquire hardware with more than sufficient battery power so as to only worry about charging it every 2-3 days when I'm sleeping. Phones exist with up to 5AH of battery power.

[mcny]

> I believe the reason is typically because they want to make the design of chargers cheaper and the circuitry inside simpler and ergo cheaper as well. What you want has a slightly higher unit cost and in 99.99% of cases doesn't impact the users usage.

Makes sense but really given how much every company harps about going green... I don’t know whether a lot of people use their phones while charging but I think they do. At least I do.

You brought up a good point though. I should just get a phone with a huge battery. So no pixel and no iPhone.