1 day ago · Power bank feature creep is out of control Something has gone horribly wrong when your portable battery has a screensaver.

1 day ago · Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control (theverge.com) 20 Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:45PM from the when-battery-needs-battery dept.

2 days ago · There are still basic power banks available that charge phones and even laptops without too much feature creep and attempted upsell. If all you want is to charge your phone then there’s …

This $270 power bank from EcoFlow requires proprietary modules and a desktop dock to reach its full potential. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge There was a time not too long…

Power banks now feature integrated cables, kickstands, flashlights, 4G hotspots, giant display, Wi-Fi radios when cheap and basic is usually better.

Feature creep is the excessive ongoing expansion or addition of new features in a product, [1] especially in computer software, video games (where it should not be confused with power creep) and …

The term privilege creep (also known as permission creep, access creep or privilege sprawl) refers to the process of users accumulating more and more permissions over time, giving them access to …