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Articles tagged with: Battery
New storage material improves energy density of lithium-ion battery
..echnologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology. Resea more
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Samsung Shows Off 12-Megapixel Cameraphone
..st ratio of 10,000:1 while providing power-saving features which increase battery life. Finally, the Pixon12 enables users to easily organize and manage photos with multiple ways of sorting - by tags, file names, ratings, and time. In addition, more
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Qualcomm Expands Snapdragon Platform with 45nm Chipset
..et that uses 45 nanometer (nm) process technology to provide faster processing and significant battery life improvements. The new Snapdragon QSD8650A chipset - scheduled for sampling before the end of 2009 - offers significant performance impro more
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Arrival of iPhone Boosts Competition in the Latin America Mobile Handsets Markets
..s. Issues such as high cost, billing issues for data services, and battery autonomy will have to be addressed to unlock the full potential of these advanced devices. The cost of a smart phone in Latin America is also a major challenge, but the more
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Research team reports major breakthrough in lithium battery technology
An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries. The research team of professor Linda Nazar, graduate student David Xiulei Ji and postdoctoral fellow Kyu Tae Lee are one of the first to demonstrate robust electrochemical performance for a lithium-sulphur battery. The finding is reported in the on-line issue of Nature Materials. more
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Air-fuelled Battery Offers 10-Fold Increase in Capacity
A new type of low cost, air-fuelled battery is claimed to be able to offer up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available. Improved capacity is thanks to the addition of a component that uses oxygen drawn from the air during discharge, replacing one chemical constituent used in rechargeable batteries today. Not having to carry the chemicals around in the battery offers more energy for the same size battery. more
U.S. Cellular Launches Free Battery Swap Program
.. launch a service where its customers can come into any store and change out a dead or dying battery for a fully-charged one, for free. "Our Battery Swap program is perfect for people who depend on their wireless devices as their lifeline more
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New Technology Could Double 3G Network Voice Call Capacity
.. packet connectivity (CPC) features of 3GPP Release 7, requires far less handset battery power, providing a significant, potentially up to 50% increase in talk time. The efficiency of the technique also means call setup times can be cut in half more
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LG Tops Traditional Phone User Satisfaction Ranking
..raditional wireless handsets are operation (30%); physical design (30%); features (20%); and battery function (20%). Among residential smartphone owners, key factors are ease of operation (30%); operating system (22%); features (21%); physical more
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Samsung Shows off its First Android Phone
..us multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB). The phone also boasts a slim and compact design with mere 11. more
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