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A British technology company has claimed a major smartphone breakthrough by developing an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.
Intelligent Energy has made a working iPhone 6 prototype containing both a rechargeable battery and its own patented technology, which creates electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, producing only small amounts of water and heat as waste.
The company is believed to be working closely with Apple. In what it claims is a world first, it has incorporated a fuel cell system into the current iPhone 6 without any alteration to the size or shape of the device. The only cosmetic differences compared with other handsets are rear vents so an imperceptible amount of water vapour can escape.
The plan is to offer the fuel cells as disposable cartridges.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Nerdfest on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:37PM
You'd think they'd do this for a device that actually had a replaceable battery first.
(Score: 3, Touché) by theluggage on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:27PM
You'd think they'd do this for a device that actually had a replaceable battery first.
Getting bought out by Apple would probably have a better profit:effort ratio than flogging battery replacements