FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo, Lisa Gao compares a black iPhone 7, right, with her iPhone 6 at the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue, in Chicago. Apple, Samsung and other phone companies keep coming out with more powerful phones with better cameras and a bevy of bells and whistles. Rather than relegate an earlier model to a desk drawer, consider donating, reusing, recycling or reselling it.

After iPhone users expressed online that their devices seemed to be slowing down, Apple told CNBC that the phone’s battery is the reason.“Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current…

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