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Battery Revolution! Again.

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SiempreTuna

Android Expert
I've lost count of the number of stories I've read over the years about awesome advances in battery technology that will increase battery capacity two fold, ten fold or in this case so many fold that a battery a few square millimetres in size could start a car.

What I want to know is: what happened to 'em? :confused:

Coz they all say they'll be on the market in 5 years, I've been reading about them for 10 years but my phone battery still only lasts a day :mad:
 
When I'm post whoring here on my phone the battery lasts less than a day, unlike when I do so at the other forum I frequent. I think it has to do with the fact that here, each page seems to load a number of times before it's fully loaded.
 
Although I'm not privy to the code here, this site seems to act like another site that I worked on that uses constantly executing browser code to automatically update certain content without having to do a manual refresh. That site also has a mobile version, which I presume is more battery friendly.
 
SiempreTuna said:
I've lost count of the number of stories I've read over the years about awesome advances in battery technology that will increase battery capacity two fold, ten fold or in this case so many fold that a battery a few square millimetres in size could start a car.

What I want to know is: what happened to 'em? :confused:

Coz they all say they'll be on the market in 5 years, I've been reading about them for 10 years but my phone battery still only lasts a day :mad:
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It doesn't matter because once you create better batteries, phone manufacturers will just cram more power hungry features into the phone until the battery will only be able to barely power the device for a day before the battery drains.
 
Stuntman said:
It doesn't matter because once you create better batteries, phone manufacturers will just cram more power hungry features into the phone until the battery will only be able to barely power the device for a day before the battery drains.
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Can't argue with that!!:D
 
Stuntman said:
It doesn't matter because once you create better batteries, phone manufacturers will just cram more power hungry features into the phone until the battery will only be able to barely power the device for a day before the battery drains.
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OK - I'll take that deal! :D

Thing is, apart from the screen being bigger and responding to touch, my current, 4 month old, top of the line (OK, the Nexus 4 line only has 2 options) phone doesn't actually do anything that my N95 couldn't do back in the dark ages (aka 2007).

Where are these great new features :confused:
 
I remember something about 'organic' batteries then some kind of 'gas' battery. Can't say either would have caught on. One sounds like it came from a sci-fi horror flick the other an explosion hazard. Come to think of it, didn't the latter kill the hydrogen automobile before it could have happened?

Quite frankly I am surprised there aren't E-ink Android tablets. Battery life on the e-readers is very good! And immune to sunlight
 
SiempreTuna said:
I've lost count of the number of stories I've read over the years about awesome advances in battery technology that will increase battery capacity two fold, ten fold or in this case so many fold that a battery a few square millimetres in size could start a car.

What I want to know is: what happened to 'em? :confused:

Coz they all say they'll be on the market in 5 years, I've been reading about them for 10 years but my phone battery still only lasts a day :mad:
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Perhaps we can blame physics? Lots of cool stuff is hampered by those darn, diddley laws of physics.

My theory is we will see longer life batteries at some point. I think we do see the odd advance here and there. NiCads V. Liion and the like.

Rome was not designed in a day, you know? It took payoffs from building inspectors, graft, and a rewriting of eminent domain laws.
 
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