No but after 500 charges it will be over the half life expectancy of the battery. It won’t stay on all night anymore it may stay on for 4 hours but after about a year and a half or 2 years it will be dead. Then what do we do to replace the battery. I see on the garden lights they had intended to make them plugable. This could have been done with a magnetic Charger. If they wanted it to be waterproof. Not being able to change out the battery is a huge drawback. Regardless of how you choose to look at it. I like my Garden lights and the globe lights. But i don’t think for the money they are worth the money they ask for them. If i could rely on it working when the battery dies off. This to me would add more value. Just my opinion.. =)

Good point, Jeff, but I just wanted to add that when a company says their battery has a 500-charge cycle, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will completely stop working. When lithium-ion batteries go through 500 charge cycles, they still have around an 65%-85% capacity. So the light’s runtime may be shorter, but the light should still work. In the case of the Playbulb Sphere, you could leave it on the charger base to power it if the battery runtime is too short. I also have some Hue lights and would agree that the Playbulb colors are more vivid like you state. Thanks for stoping by and sharing this information!