Comments on: How will your computing habits change when we reach all day battery life?

By: Adrian Morgan

Adrian Morgan — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:30:12 +0000

When buying Cellphone Batteries make sure that you are not getting those chinese fakes and knockoffs.”;’

By: Montblanc

Montblanc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:14:31 +0000

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By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:51:12 +0000

It’ll make no difference in the long run. If they make a battery that allows 24 hour run time on UMPCs what’s gonna happen is the manufacturers will just put devices that use 2x more power but are more powerful as well and end up at 10-12 hours.

10-12 hours is really the practical limit.

By: EC

EC — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:45:59 +0000

Here you go Ben

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/hyundais-mb-910-watch-phone-gets-priced-and-dated/

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:30:37 +0000

absolutely no differences,

because each day will still be only 24hrs,

and you need to sleep for at least 6hrs/day,

otherwise you will die for some unknown reasons.

when you sleep, you can re-charge your laptop fully.

By: Ben Lang

Ben Lang — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:17:09 +0000

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EC — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:00:28 +0000

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floor jacks — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:34:42 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000

That should be fixed in a couple of years if this tech can get out of the lab soon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7938001.stm

It’s basically a lithium-ion battery with a vastly improved surface structure to allow for much, much faster charging. Combine that with the earlier nanowire discovery and we’ll get seven-to-ten-fold increase in battery capacity and they’d still charge up in under a minute!

By: Christian Kurz

Christian Kurz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:29:27 +0000

Stadard AA is rubbish as the standard only specifies 15,v which is way to less. Go for 14500`s. These are lithium batteries which are the same size as AA but offer the lithium typical 4,2-2,8v and higher capacity per weight.

By: Pixel QI fan in waiting

Pixel QI fan in waiting — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:02:38 +0000

The device, when it has 15 hour battery per charge… will also have a sleep mode where it will be a cell phone at the same time. OR a cell phone can dock to it for use of that same battery as the cell phone for calls uses very little power already.

I am expecting that you will see netbooks with 20 hours of battery life per charge (and when in sleep mode aka cell phone mode, it will have 30-50 hours of battery life per charge.

It will be a great thing to have a netbook that you can use and not worry about the battery. Only thing needed is a AA battery standard size, that can be recharged in 15 minutes… all these different batteries make for unhappy consumers that have to take an extra battery with them for every device that they have. Of course even with 20 hours of use per charge, the battery will die when you do not want it too… so then, extra battery is needed, and that is why AA should be the standard for all netbooks, cell phones, and digital cameras (so all can share the same extra battery).

By: Christian Kurz

Christian Kurz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:21:41 +0000

Just read a solution to the charging problem (which perhaps would never have been a problem anyways )

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7235/abs/nature07853.html

combined with Yu Ciu’s silicon nonwire batteries this makes exactly the vision we are talking about here.
Naonwire Batteries:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:16:30 +0000

That one does look interesting. It’ll be interesting to see Ubuntu and/or Maemo and/or Android ported to it. I’m also sort of hoping that the rumored Apple device for 3rd quarter will be of a similar format, only styled for Apple (and maybe running an Atom processor for full OS X).

By: squirrel

squirrel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:08:50 +0000

What do you think about this?
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
$400 tablet 2lb 8.9” netbook based on TI OMAP 3 (ARM Cortex platform with detachable screen than can work for 10-15 hours!
Available for preorder in USA for June’09

By: Realty

Realty — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:09:34 +0000

Having an all day battery would simply allow my UMPC to take the place of my smartphone. Always on and always connected. Instead of being limited to an Iphone or Rim operating system which is designed to save battery life and lacks some features, I could use the full MAC or PC operating systems and run anything I run on my normal desktop PC. I don’t see it changing my current computing habits because an all day MID will still not replace my laptop or desktop computer for heavy duty work. (You still are not going to want to touch screen or thumb a five page MS Word Proposal or elaborate Excel spreadsheet.)

Two years from now, I could see phones appearing with these full operating systems thus completely blurring the line between a MID / UMPC and a Smartphone. (These super long life batteries would also extend the life of normal smartphones which would be great and also extend the life of note/netbook computers which I find less exciting unless you fly cross country a lot.)