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  • Wait, so they’re trying to make a hydrogen fuel cell for your phone? How are we supposed to refill them once they’re depleted? Are we all going to have to invest in electrolysis equipment in our homes? How does this charge in your car? At a friend’s house?

  • My phone will last over a week… it’s all the stuff like Bluetooth, WiFi, screen and antenna that get in the way.

  • if you cant find a phone charger in 6 days, maybe playing angry birds a bit more isnt your biggest problem

  • Agreed, we’ll just have to turn location off, lower screen brightness to 10%, disable LTE, turn off all push services, restrict all apps in the background, stop account syncing and limit all outgoing sms,mms, and IM’s. I’ve been saying this for years.

  • This is great… and could mean vast improvements in VR headsets as well. Could help Oculus and HTC cut cords. Sorry, not a VR site but it’s what I thought of…

  • This post sounds very illegitimate is all I will say. Fuel cell doesn’t make sense in this context.

  • 7.5 million was all it took? Ha. Slow news day, I get it. I’m holding my breath for graphene…

  • Well, by that time I’ll be needing a new phone to replace my Nexus 6P. So let’s hope this estimation of two years isn’t a bunch of hot air!

  • So after the last ~10 years of struggles with battery life in more modern cell phones, all it took was an investment of $7.5m to completely revolutionize the industry? You can’t tell me that every manufacturer hasn’t spent more than that trying to increase battery life and somehow an unnamed maker is responsible for this. I don’t believe this. :-/

      • Someone has to carry the flag during this depressing season. It’s been a rough one. Kind of excited about Korpisalo though, might havehave a legite 2nd goaltender.

  • It is literally the one major area left that is ripe for growth. We’ve seen the displays, and chips, and cameras all improve at ridiculous rates, but battery seems like an afterthought. It certainly doesn’t help that Apple is determined to make smartphones as thin as humanly possible (and the rest of the industry seems to have tagged along for the ride). Hopefully we’ll see some improvement this year with a more power-efficient SD820.

  • Not so much interested in week long battery life so much as a battery that I can’t drain in one day regardless of what I do with it.

  • I have to think if this was only 2 years out, Apple or Samsung would be jumping at putting at only a 7.5 million dollar investment in to have this type of technology. Plus of its a fuel cell instead of recharging our phones won’t we need to refill it with liquid Hydrogen? One of the problems with fuel cells in at least automotive applications has always been storage of the hydrogen.

    • Just imagine if Apple and Sammy put all the lawsuit money towards this tech, we’d have it by now

  • Two years would be nice but I definitely think for sure within the next 10 years we will definitely have a week but of course this is just my opinion.

  • Tiered device pricing for battery life like on board storage? “Oh you want the week long battery with the 128GB? That’ll be eleventy thousand dollars.”

  • How do you declare a timeline for something that hasn’t even been designed yet? Better batteries are about in the same line as flying cars.

  • I’m sure I could get weeks battery life now…if I turn off all radios, turn off volume and vibrations, silence all notifications and prevent background updates, dim the screen all the way and never turn the screen on.

    Pfft, I have the future in my hands right now!

  • Seems you see a few of these super battery stories every year, but you never actually see products come from them.

  • As someone that has done some work in this field, I’m just gonna stand over here and hold my breath.

  • Yet the manufacturers will just implement tiny versions of it to save space…..providing the consumers with…..wait for it…..just 24 hour usage (translated to 10 hrs usage) again…..

  • I’ll believe it when I see it.

    I’ve heard far too many other companies and research groups promise revolutionary battery improvements are coming within the next few years. Some claim as many as ten, some closer to five. This one claiming within the next two is one of the most aggressive timelines I’ve read from any of them. But it still doesn’t change the fact that until it is affordably mass-produced by one or more smartphone OEMs, it’s meaningless vaporware.

    • they never said they wouldn’t strap 5 3000mAh batteries to your phone so their claim could be true. 😉

    • Agreed. I used to get excited when I read about new battery tech promising longer lasting battery charges or few seconds to full charge and I used to get excited. Now, after so many years of these stories, my reaction is more like

    • The conspiracy side of me says that the tech already exists and is purposefully be hindered from making it to the market. There’s too much money being made in the accessory market at the moment. Even I carry a Anker 15000 mAh charger for day trips every weekend.

      • I don’t believe that is true. I listened to many of presentations about battery tech during my masters. It’s just very hard to safely put that much battery in a small space.

        There are way more applications outside of the consumer world that would benefit from better battery technology. Accessories are not useful in these situations.

        • Made my comment a bit out of context. I wasn’t just referring to battery tech, but the battery + hardware + software. My z3c can easily get 1.5-2 days in Stamina Mode (never tried Ultra Stamina mode for a long period) with regular usage sans extended gaming/streaming. Checking FB/email/etc…you hardly notice a blip on the performance radar. This is coming from a 2600mah battery with hardware 1-2 generations behind top spec phones.

          THAT example is why I think it’s possible now. You slap a 4000mah battery into that thing and I could eek out another 2 days.

          The other part of the equation is smart usage of the user (“I don’t need 100% screen brightness enabled all the time”) and the phone software (“let me figure out how to stay in low battery mode until the user needs hardcore processing and full radio capability”).

          Quick Charging has taken us a step back from battery revolution by packing in more spec and forcing the user to be okay with multiple charges per day.

      • The conspiracy side of me would think that if there was better battery technology out there, it would be in use in military applications. Those things aren’t exactly light.

    • There was suppose to be this revolutionary break through with High charge capacitors and it was/ is supposed to be the big break through for the electric car market, but since then nothing has happened since the articles. And the promise of bringing that technology to mobile devices. Was supposed to be extremely fast charging with very high energy storage.

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