Originally Posted by
adamrice
* The one caveat about battery life and water resistance is this: the phone is smart enough to deactivate its charging port when it's wet. On a very rainy 145-mile ride, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to charge it to have enough power for the next day's ride, and I was depending on it for navigation. In theory, one could use wireless charging as a workaround for this, but I didn't have a wireless charger on that ride.
I noticed the first thing to wear out in my phones was always the charging port. I invested in wireless charging pads and prolonged the useable life of my phones. Highly recommended. I've had the same thing coming home from a rainy hike many times where the phone refuses a charge except wirelessly. A lot of the pads are small and light.