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It seems more likely to me that they will use this technology to create smaller devices with batteries that last the same length.
by theVirginian 12y ago
It seems more likely to me that they will use this technology to create smaller devices with batteries that last the same length.
- Aqwis 12y agoI think it's more likely that more powerful batteries will allow more power-hungry electronics. This is already happening -- just look at the giant/high resolution screens of modern smartphones that would be unthinkable a few years ago due to inferior battery technology.
- msandford 12y agoNot at all. It was always possible, it just would have meant larger batteries. They size the battery to the phone, not the phone to the battery. Have you noticed that once smartphones came out they've never really had much more than a day's worth of battery life, yet they get thinner and thinner? They could easily make the phone 1mm thicker and probably double the battery life, but they don't. They're not trying to make a maximum battery life, they're trying to make the "sexiest" thing possible and still have what someone, somewhere thinks is probably about OK given the average use.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoI see you are new here. My first smartphone, a BlackBerry 6210, ran for a week between charges. Its predecessor, a BlackBerry 957, wasn't a smartphone per se, because it didn't contain a phone, but it was a programmable PDA with a 2-way data radio and an i386 CPU and it ran for three weeks before I had to plug it in. The reason that smartphones now have 1-day battery life is because that's the _minimum_ that the market will tolerate.
- brownbat 12y agoYeah, one of the reasons I just started carrying a tablet is because the battery lasted so much longer, not shorter. It's a bigger device, so it's a bigger battery.