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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: 4, Touché) by skater on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:54PM
For Android phones, it'll finally let you use the phone an entire day without needing a recharge.
(Score: 2) by TheB on Wednesday August 26 2015, @03:09AM
Impressive.
My Nexus 7 can't even do this while plugged into the wall.
(Score: 2) by skater on Wednesday August 26 2015, @11:23AM
My Galaxy S3 was miserable in battery life. I had to recharge it at work every day, in addition to charging it overnight every night. My wife had an iPhone 5 at the same time, and the iPhone was far, far better than the S3. It wasn't even close, and she uses her phone more than I do. I tried every tip I could find to extend battery life in the S3 and even replaced the battery, thinking it might be bad, and nothing helped. I switched to an iPhone 6 this time around; now, without recharging and the same amount of use during the day, I still leave work each day with a ~90% charge.