When Battery Companies Make Phones...

[rootabaga]

This is the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop underneath the Galaxy S8:

It's kind of crazy, but I'm mostly saddened that they didn't work to be sure the phone worked well. Basically it's a $600 gimmick. Article link below...


This 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it

 

[lvt]

I need one like this to jump-start my car from time to time.

 

[Clementine_3]

It's a modern day retro 'bag' phone!

 

[mikedt]

As someone who served an electronics apprenticeship, I think why did these peeps not write it is "18Ah" instead of "18,000mAh"? Many blogs are the same.

For information, 1,000mA(milliamps)= 1A(amp)

 

[lunatic59]

If you dropped it, it would break ... the floor.

I think why did these peeps not write it is "18Ah" instead of "18,000mAh"?

Marketing my good man. 18,000 is a much more impressive number than 18.

 

[mikedt]

If you dropped it, it would break ... the floor.

Marketing my good man. 18,000 is a much more impressive number than 18.

I thought about the marketing aspect, but then Ford, or VW, or whatever don't advertise their cars as having say "2,300mL" engines rather than "2.3L" engines. And my electric scooter was sold with a "40Ah - 48V" battery.

 

[Napalm]

yes but the issue there is industry standards set.

in the mobile electronics arena everyone else is on mAh - so explaining what an Ah is and how it would relate would be an issue.

Meanwhile this is interesting but useless for most. I was much more interested in the caterpillar phone - wish they would have made a new one

 

[Unforgiven]

OK, there is some serious fail here. They couldn't take advantage of that thickness to better replicate a point and click camera, add some stuff to the sides, add a true optical zoom to the camera, etc. Once they fattened that thing up they should have really taken advantage of it.

 

[bcrichster]

I'd hate to see a runaway drain and accidental damage flare caused from that battery.. It'd be horrific

 

[dontpanicbobby]

How is that not a speaker too?

 

[Napalm]

OK, there is some serious fail here. They couldn't take advantage of that thickness to better replicate a point and click camera, add some stuff to the sides, add a true optical zoom to the camera, etc. Once they fattened that thing up they should have really taken advantage of it.

Well hold up a tick - photo's are deceiving. It's what, 3 times the thickness of the device on top of it. Which is what again a samsung s9, or 10. let's call it a nominal 41mm mobile? (I've not looked at specs so I too am going by estimate)

So with all the room necessary for that battery - to get the capacity you'd can't afford to lose gaps for unnecessary featueres like a 4x optical zoon, and it's screw mechanism, and it's motor. Which hell might weigh more than the battery with doesn't chemistry.

 

[lvt]

How is that not a speaker too?

With Dolby Surround please.

 

[lvt]

As someone who served an electronics apprenticeship, I think why did these peeps not write it is "18Ah" instead of "18,000mAh"? Many blogs are the same.

For information, 1,000mA(milliamps)= 1A(amp)

It could be a simple heritage from old phones era, for example my first phone was an Ericsson with a 700mAh battery. 700mAh sounds somehow better than 0.7Ah, so when batteries get bigger and bigger people are already accustomed to the formula.

 

[mikedt]

It could be a simple heritage from old phones era, for example my first phone was an Ericsson with a 700mAh battery. 700mAh sounds somehow better than 0.7Ah, so when batteries get bigger and bigger people are already accustomed to the formula.

I can understand that now. Possibly another heritage thing, it's probably what the general public know, and something that I've sometimes thought about, is how TV screen sizes are nearly always specified in inches rather than metric. Even modern flat screens, and even in China as well, a country that's never really used British Imperial measures.