HTC has a new quick charge accessory that claims to juice up your HTC-branded smartphones up to 40% quicker.
The new charging unit uses Qualcomm’s Rapid Charge 2.0 technology, and works mainly on some of HTC’s newer handsets. These include the HTC M8, E8, M8 Hardon/Kardon Editions and the Desi…
You can’t have it all, so while Apple doubles down on RAM at long last for the “lighter than air” new iPad, battery capacity wanes and repairability remains a great hassle.
Curious to see exactly what lies beneath the slim, stylish hood of the just-released iPad Air 2? Don’t even think about pry…
With a little over three weeks reportedly left until Apple finally brings to light the greatly anticipated iPhone 6 pair, the battery capacity puzzle seems fully settled, although the latest purported leaks out of Asia, like all Asian leaks, have to be taken with prudence.
For a perennially…
New research headed by several Japanese academic institutions may substantially reduce the required charging time for a Lithium-ion battery.
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are known for high energy density and very low self discharge rates. But despite being the primary type of battery used…
Elon Musk’s company is raising money to build a plant that will increase the output of battery components by several folds to aid in lowering the cost of owning an all-electric Tesla.
Teslas aren’t the most affordable luxury toys out there, but CEO Elon Musk thinks that his company can churn ou…
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Researchers have found that by folding paper-based Li-Ion batteries, the energy density of the cells can be increased 14 times.
By folding a Lithium-Ion paper-based battery in a Miura-ori pattern (a folding pattern similar to how maps are often folded), one can increase the energy density and…
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Officials investigating a Tesla Motors electric car which caught fire outside Seattle, have reached the conclusion that the fire began in the battery compartment. The fire was contained and nobody was injured thanks to, in Tesla Motors’ words, the design and construction of the…
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Less than a week after the launch of the Snapdragon 800 powered Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the new Adreno 330 GPU gets thoroughly tested, passes with flying colors.
Qualcomm has brought out their biggest gun yet. The company’s new Snapdragon 800 chipset is fast, and power efficiency at the same…
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