Category: battery news
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Extended Warranty on HP Laptop Batteries
If one searches the online forums and shop for discussions regarding laptop parts, one of the issues that people are getting most annoyed and irate about is the warranties being provided by Hewlett Packard. It has to be said at the outset that this doesn’t apply to just HP laptop batteries and also applies to…
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Cell Phone Battery on the iPhone 5
After the iPhone 5 craze dies down, you’ll have ample time to see how well you actually like the device. Is it the phone that has all of the feature you have dreamed of? It is very close, but it all really depends on what you need. For those who are considering the jump to…
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Apple Claims New iPad’s Battery Charging is Normal
The new iPad‘s battery performs within the normal parameters of an iOS-based device, thank you very much. At least that’s the story Apple is telling in the face of criticism of the way the company’s latest tablet deals with battery charging. Apple told All Things D and aussiebattery on Tuesday that there’s been some “confusion”…
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Google Nexus 7 smaller but longer battery life than Kindle Fire
Google Nexus 7 teardown reveals better battery than Kindle Fire A full teardown of the new Google Nexus 7 has revealed the tablet is packing a seriously impressive battery under the hood. The Nexus 7 comes with a 4,326mAh, 16Wh battery which can reportedly last a whopping 9 hours, 50 minutes, according to the chaps over at…
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Self-Contained Battery Concept Charges Itself
This rechargeable battery concept couldn’t be simpler. Grab the top and bottom of the dead battery and wind it up! The spring inside the battery housing then turns and charges the power cell inside. Designed by Yeon Kyeong Hwang and Mieong Ho Kang, these wind-up batteries could charge anywhere without external power. The top half…
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Quick Review Acer Aspire 1830T-3721
Most of us do work while on the move, and in such situations an ultra light laptop with good battery output is what we require the most. The Acer Aspire Timeline series 1830T-3721 is one the ultra portable laptops with a whooping 6 hour Acer as07b31 battery life and under thousand dollar range, is one the…
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Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook Features Longest Laptop Battery Life
Acer debuted their first Ultrabook the Aspire S3 at IFA this week. While it hasn’t landed on US shores yet, that didn’t stop us from giving a little love to this slim vixen. The Aspire S3 is encased in a thin, light metal design that weighs less than 3 lbs, has a 13.3 ultra-thin HD…
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HP TouchPad gets Android Jelly Bean Preview Release
If you were lucky enough to get an HP TouchPad this time last year during their “fire sale” for $99 (16GB) or the $149 (32GB) your Android luck hasn’t run out yet. Remember, Android first came to the HP TouchPad via CM7, Gingerbread. A few months later, Android 4.0 came to the HP TouchPad, bringing…
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What 10 years of Apple did to its main product
How time flies! In the year 2000, I was just finishing high school, listening to Bush, and becoming acquainted with Windows 2000. Back then, I knew very little about Apple, and I’d certainly not heard of the Bondi Bubble iMac (the first iMac was released in 1998). In 2010, well…how things have changed for me!
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Apple New iPad Battery Nearly Double the iPad 2′s Battery Capacity
Apple finally announced a new iPad that is slightly thicker and heavier than the iPad 2. The reason the new iPad is thicker is because Apple nearly doubled the battery capacity compared to last year’s model. The new iPad has a 42.5-watt-hour battery. By comparison, the iPad 2 has a 25-watt-hour battery. The iPhone 4S, a smaller…