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Tests Show a Motorola Phone Being Powered by Hydrogen

.. The replacement fuel cell was clipped to the phone as a direct replacement for the existing battery - and importantly, did not increase the overall size of the mobile phone. Angstrom has also demonstrated research results showing twice the ta more

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Matsushita and Nokia Update on the Financial Impact of the Battery Recall

..ay which said that the cost of the Nokia battery recall could be as high as US$1.2 billion, Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) this morning said that it expected a much lower figure - no higher than 20 billion yen, or US$172 million. These costs w more

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Nokia Recalls Batteries following Short-Circuit Worries

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Apple Issues Battery Replacement Program For iPhone

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)--A consumer advocacy group has expressed outrage over Apple's battery replacement program for the iPhone, while developers and hackers are trying to figure out ways they could expand the capabilities of the hot new gadget. more

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Chinese Man Killed by Exploding Mobile Phone

.. that the company doubted its own components were to blame, suggesting that a fake battery may have been used. In most previous cases of exploding mobile phones, investigations have found the batteries to be poor quality copies, not original manufact more

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Lithium Batteries Dominate Cellphone Market

Strategy Analytics is forecasting slow worldwide battery market demand at an average of 4.7% per year until 2010 in a new report. The "Energy Gap" between cellular handset requirements and battery limitations determine what and how new services can be introduced in the mobile market. It is difficult to fulfill the energy demand that has been created by an insatiable wireless communication industry. more

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Mobile Phones Powered by Sugar Cubes

..hole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source - from soft drinks to tree sap - and has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single  more

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DoCoMo:To Resume Sales Of Mitsubishi Electric Cellphones

..batteries were now available.Sales of the handsets were halted after some of their battery packs, which are made by a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric, were found to overheat and crack during recharging. NTT DoCoMo has been replacing the battery packs of more

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Top 25 Stories in 2006

..e cheap to produce, and use urine as its power charge source. 7 - Just How Did Motorola Make the RAZR V3 So Thin?In its latest Insight on Ultra-Slim phones, Strategy Analytics uncovered the secrets of the Motorola RAZR V3, comparing the thicknes more

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Building a Better Battery - With Plastic

Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery. A description of the prototype is published in Advanced Materials.

Tayhas Palmore, associate professor of engineering, left, and Hyun-Kon Song, a former postdoctoral research associate, figured out how to combine the advantages of batteries and capacitors in a plastic hybrid device.

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