We commented the other week in our post about the rumored quad-core HTC Zeta that we’d like to see a bit more of a focus in areas like RAM and battery-life improvement and it looks like researchers at Northwestern University have answered our prayers. In an impressive piece of engineering a team at Northwestern has managed to increase both energy capacity and charge speeds of lithium-ion batteries ten-fold.
The implications are obviously more far-reaching that merely the smartphone industry. All kinds of portable devices would benefit from this kind of technology, should it ever make it to the mainstream market. There are also the further reaching implications this would have for lithium battery-powered vehicles and the environmental impact that could have.
However, here at WhistleOut we tend to stick to what we know which, among other things, is phones. We’re pretty excited to think about all of the possibilities that come with a 10x increase in power. More powerful CPUs, bigger and brighter screens, more RAM, better media usage and waiting 10 days or so in between charges.
Of course it’s still in the testing stages right now, but that’s never stopped us from getting just a little excited about advances in tech and we don’t see any problem with that.
Source: Maximum PC
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