Battery "Breakthrough" anytime soon?

[Poledancerz]

So in my opinion, the worst thing about a mobile device is the battery life on it. Sure, it's enough to get me through the day, but if I forget to charge it one night, I'm going to be totally screwed the next day.

It's just a pain to have to charge something after approximately 6 hours of use and it be completely useless (when not plugged in). I feel like the battery life of things is definitely the "bottleneck" in my satisfaction about it. 

 

So I was wondering if there has been any news about something that is capable of storing energy (preferably rechargeable) that is way beyond what we have currently have?

I have tried doing a bit of searching my own, but either nothing has been coming out, or I just suck at making Googles.

 

(Just a side-note... I'm not complaining about battery life, just wondering if it's ever going to get improved. The fact that I have a device that can add 50 + 25 and spurt out the answer in a millisecond still blows my mind)
 

[Real_PhillBert]

Battery tech is a lot like PC tech. There is not likely to be a huge groundbreaking moment that allows your smartphone to last for a month any time soon. Slow steady incremental improvements are however on the horizon.

[Shd0w2]

You can make a phone last long, he problem is, we are jamming 2,6ghz processors in our phones like the htc one m8.

So, we can make a low power smart phone to have a Lon lasting battery, but it would b slow.

[Katsu-K1L]

Fuck modern phones, Nokia 3310 all the way, btw get a powerbank or whatever those things are called, it should really help you in your endeavor with battery's

[Askew]

For now, the only real way around the issue is to carry a portable USB power pack.

 

For me, the ideal solution to the battery life issue comes in 2 potential flavours.

 

1. Batteries with more capacity
2. Batteries that charge extremely quickly

[Thunderjolt]

 

For now, the only real way around the issue is to carry a portable USB power pack.

 

For me, the ideal solution to the battery life issue comes in 2 potential flavours.

 

1. Batteries with more capacity
2. Batteries that charge extremely quickly

 

But to get more capacity the cells will have to decrease in size which seems relatively difficult to do.

[Sauron]

We could have kept our tegra 3's, maybe done a die shrink for power consumption and added a gpu that's a bit better, and focused on making longer lasting batteries and cheaper phones, but no, apparently snake oil is never enough... I can understand that tablets benefit from being more powerful as people use them for games and in general to do what you would with a laptop, but in a phone having QHD screens and 2.6ghz quad cores with 3gb of ram at the cost of battery life and at the same price as a 28" 4k display is nonsense. Phones are made to call people, it's ok to have them be snappy and comfortable to watch movies and read comics on, but much less that what we have now in flagship devices is needed for that. Playing games on a less than 6" screen is very uncomfortable and phablets take away too much mobility from something that you should be able to fetch from your pocket and place close to your ear in a matter of seconds and keep it there for a number of minutes.

[Seldszar]

We are in cycle it seems, every time batteries are improving we want our device to do more energy intensive tasks. At this rate it will never change. Imo the philosophy of people needs to change from being able to do everything with you mobile to a good device that doesn't shave but has a better battery.

[Senor Potato]

What about that thing that charged a battery in like 30 seconds?

[Seldszar]

I don't know what happened to it, it looked incredible. So either its on the way or it was buried by a company that thought it was too good. (buy the rights and never talk about it again)

 

I realy don't know, I havent made the researches necessary to realy know where its at. I hope it comes out soon.

[xox]

I think that the problem really is that the phone software itself is poorly optimised. On iPhones or Windows Phones, the battery lasts forever; the OS barely uses any power so no battery is used. Android constantly wakes the phone upwhen it's locked and uses data, processing power and other stuff in the process, meaning there is comparably low battery life.

 

Plus, there's the point that some phones are supplied with 2 Amp chargers, which means that after 2 years, the battery life will be terrible because the battery has been fried.

[-iSynthesis]

If a phone like the m8 wouldn't have a quadcore 2.6ghz or whatever processor (Which is WAY faster than my laptop!!!) and instead something like a dual core 2ghz which is still plenty to do a lot of stuff. Maybe not fking play crysis 3 on the phone but enough to play normal games and do other stuff

[TheWall]

 

For now, the only real way around the issue is to carry a portable USB power pack.

 

For me, the ideal solution to the battery life issue comes in 2 potential flavours.

 

1. Batteries with more capacity
2. Batteries that charge extremely quickly

 

What about wireless charging?

[79wjd]

Graphene. 

[Askew]

What about wireless charging?

It still takes a long time.

[TheWall]

It still takes a long time.

Yeah now, but the future looks promising

[gergy008]

New battery technology exists. It works. It's been tested.

 

It's mass production that's the issue here.

[IAmSkip]

Not while oil is still a thing.
Once people/things like the military NEED longer battery life desperately, only smaller advancements will be made.

As said above, newer/better tech exists, but it won't make it to market as most of the time it's never viable enough

[Scionyde]

My regular flip-phone's battery lasts several days before needing a recharge.

 

#dumbphonemasterrace

 

[crystal6tak]

My old slide-phone, currently my dedicated alarm clock, goes for 2 weeks before recharge. 

 

To op, if your phone has swap-able battery get a battery and battery charger. That way one battery is always charging while your out using your phone. Whenever juice runs out just swap the battery. Or you could get a USB battery pack, I myself do the battery swapping cause I'm too lazy to carry around a battery pack.