… because some European Samsung phones are built with Exynos CPU and not with Qualcoom Snapdragon (like USA ones). 
Wow! I’m slowly becoming a battery expert - who would have thought…
Thank you all for your responses. I will purchase my FP3+ and use the charger I have. I understand it will charge for sure, the only question is if it will fast-charge. This is not an essential feature for me - my phone is on the charger during the night (and if needed in the car when I’m on the road) and that has always been fine for me.
Thanks again and have a good one all!
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Ok more on batteries then
a) It is not ideal to keep a battery on all night as it may well charge but keeping it under 90% prolongs the battery life, as does keeping it above 20%, some will say 30% to 80% etc. Battery alarm apps are available.
b) It is also detrimental to have the battery being charged whilst in use. So ideally, take care to minimise using it whilst charging in the car.
An example of advice;
Android phone manufacturers, including Samsung, say the same. “Do not leave your phone connected to the charger for long periods of time or overnight." Huawei says, “Keeping your battery level as close to the middle (30% to 70%) as possible can effectively prolong the battery life.”
Samsung
Most Smartphones have a lithium-ion battery that lives longer when charged regularly. Unlike the nickel batteries used in older phones, lithium-ion batteries do best when kept above a 50 percent charge. Repeatedly allowing the battery to drain fully may shorten its life and decrease its overall capacity.
Leaving the phone connected to the charger (when the phone is completely charged) while you are using it may lower battery life if you do it repeatedly.
Thanks for this advice as well! It looks I’ll have to change my habits - as simple as that.
Not charging the battery overnight is doable, but in the car… hm, my phone is my navigation and on a long ride the battery won’t bring me to my destination. Then again - that’s the current battery, maybe it will be much better when having my new phone.
There are a couple of options as the warning refers to:
Leaving the phone connected to the charger (when the phone is completely charged) while you are using it
a) don’t have the phone above 50% when starting the journey and unplug at 90% for example b) buy a second battery and keep fully (90%) charged so you can swap if need be
It might help to give the battery a (slightly) longer lifespan, if you follow all the hints. But for the price of not being able to do with your phone what it is made for. If I can’t use it for navigation in the car, because maybe 10 minutes before reaching the destination, the battery might drop under 30% and I have to switch it off to safely charge it again to 80%, I would rather throw it out of the window .
Battery life is always too short anyway. So if I can only use half of the energy of the battery, it’s just ridiculous. I have five year old phones, that still have nearly 90% of their original battery capacity, without everyday anxiously watching the percentage value, not to miss the right moment to charge them.
Just my two cents.
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Seconded.
Of course you can go out of your way to do everything potentially prolonging battery life.
But to sacrifice usability for that doesn’t make much sense to me.
I always charge over night, because I’m using the phone during the day.
And I always charge to 100%, because until now I didn’t experience any negative consequences of doing this at least with my Fairphone 2 batteries and my Fairphone 3 battery.
I really try to avoid letting any battery go below 20%, but it happens occasionally, and my batteries don’t care at least visibly, yet.
I’m certain my batteries could live a bit longer if I followed every advice out there, but I would never know how long that bit longer really is and thus I would never know whether it’s worth it.
My batteries are doing fine, and they are out of their warranty periods, respectively. For the Fairphone 2 ones make that way out of their warranty periods.
They did their job already just fine.
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