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Hey gucci man thats a gr8 idea...
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Posted: 2007-12-20 18:28:52
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Finally a massive breakthrough in Lithium-Ion battery technology.
Check this out, care of gsmarena:
'New Li-Ion batteries get 10x boost
As Stanford researchers, report a heavy boost to current Lithium-Ion technology is just behind the corner. We are to expect up to 10 times more performance out of the same-volume batteries. As the new invention is getting a patent application filed, the assistant professor of materials science and engineering Yi Cui who led the research, is negotiating a deal with battery manufacturers.
It's been a long time since we've seen anything happening on the battery side. This discovery however is nothing less than revolutionary and will either allow mobile phones to last months with a single charge or their batteries will get really minute.
The secret behind this great invention is called silicon nano-wires. Now although it sounds like something coming from the Sci-Fi channel, in fact it's dead simple - it's just a new way of doing things. And in this case - it's a new way of storing the lithium in the battery.
Traditionally, the electrical storage capacity of a Li-ion battery is limited by how much lithium can be held in the battery's carbon anode. Silicon has a much higher lithium-storing capacity than carbon, but also has a drawback - charging cycles pulverize it and thus degrade its performance.
Cui's battery gets around this problem with nanotechnology. The lithium is stored in a forest of tiny silicon nanowires, each with a diameter one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper. The nanowires inflate four times their normal size as they soak up lithium. But, unlike other silicon shapes, they do not fracture with time.
We are more than eager to see what the handheld-powered future has in store for us and this new Li-Ion technology.'
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Posted: 2007-12-20 19:37:54
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@ Ama yeah, its great news... Imagine future phones ey, cant wait
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Posted: 2007-12-20 19:45:01
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Ya, just hope the battery manufacturers harness the new technology in the not too distant future, and not prolong it unnecessarily ie. to perhaps first get rid of the huge amount of current Lithium-Ion battery stockpiles...
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Posted: 2007-12-20 19:49:59
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Imagine your phone lasting a month on one full charge!! That would be great!!
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Posted: 2007-12-20 20:12:37
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Yeah, but we'll still have that reduced significantly with all the applications running...
Still, it's a huge step forward, it seems. Gotta love technological advances...
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Posted: 2007-12-20 21:16:17
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Sorry for the crappy P900 pics below (taken today); left the P1i on charge at home while we did the last of the Christmas shopping.
Meet the Orange (own-branded) 'Tokyo'. What a dof name for a phone, but anyway... Check the size of it: 92mm x 35mm x 14.5mm! It is TINY! (and with that tiny width and length, so is the colour screen. There's a little 1.3mp cam in there and Bluetooth too, somewhere. Also took a pic of it next to a W880i, which is ijn itself quite small... :
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[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2007-12-20 20:27 ]
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Posted: 2007-12-20 21:26:42
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...and CPW now have the Levi's phone in stock too.
Slim, but very wide. Taken next to the K850i so that you can get some idea:
Can't say that it floats my boat that much...
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Posted: 2007-12-20 21:29:59
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A one-month charge would probably be applicable to Joe Soap who only utilizes 1/10th of his phone's capacity. I'd gladly settle for 14 days of charge, given the heavy usage to which i subject my phone. Most of the big manufacturers are likely to hold back on the new tech. until they can offload their current stocks, but i'm pretty certain that the smaller niche manufacturers won't have any qualms about promoting such tech. from the outset, since it could mean increased market share for them.
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Posted: 2007-12-20 21:58:00
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@ Wanqa
true, i'd be more than satisfied if a phone lasted a full week with 1 full charge with heavy use lol, asking for too much?
Great pics even from the VGA camera of the P900
that Orange Tokyo looks interesting although i can't stand small phones. WOW the Levi phone is ugly lol, looks like every company wants a stake in the mobile phone industry, PRADA, HUMMER, ARMANI, AUDI, APPLE, GOOGLE (and im sure YAHOO! is up to something as well), etc. . . . Whats next? Lol!
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Posted: 2007-12-20 22:03:05
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