>>It's funny that people don't want to call it a charger specifically because it doesn't do the AC-DC conversion Well yeah, they are being silly - I don't know

>>It's funny that people don't want to call it a charger specifically because it doesn't do the AC-DC conversion Well yeah, they are being silly - I don't know why that would be the distinction, even if it did AC-DC conversion it would have no idea what the battery is doing which is the entire point. >>that converter outside the phone might be doing most of the work. Maybe, but usually the circuit that controls and monitors the battery is inside the phone, not in the "charger" outside. Even battery chargers for power tools and such work this way - the circuit that controls the battery charging is actually inside the battery pack not in the base, but everyone would call the base a "charger".