Category: battery news
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Dell updates Vostro laptop for better laptop battery life
Dell has launched the V131, a new ultraportable laptop in its small-business Vostro line that the company says improves on the poor laptop battery life of its predecessor, the Vostro V130. Dell has launched the V131, a new ultraportable laptop in its small-business Vostro line. The Vostro V131, unveiled on Thursday, lets customers replace laptop…
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Scientists Home in on Lithium Laptop Battery Safety Flaws
Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of “seeing” chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery. By helping them understand how these batteries behave under different conditions the new method — which involves Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy — could help researchers solve the fire safety problems that have dogged the development of…
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R Battery concept resurrects old batteries – Battery News by batteries-company.com
For those of you who grew up during the Nintendo Game Boy days, you would certainly have gone through the painful process of purchasing new AA batteries time and again – and this was back in the day when Sanyo have yet to discover the magic and wonder of eneloop batteries. Even rechargeables were rather…
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Which should you buy: 13-inch MacBook Pro vs. 13-inch MacBook Air
MacBook Air. MacBook Pro. Once upon a time, these two products were significantly different from each other; two totally different products. That dividing line’s been blurring, especially when it comes to the world of 13-inch MacBooks. The MacBook Air used to be an underperforming, expensive laptop that had stellar design, while the 13-inch Pro was…
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Top 10 battery tips to hp pavilion dv8000 laptop user
We’ve talked a lot about how to extend your Hp pavilion dv8000 battery life, but before you to do so, you should also know some using basics of laptop battery. Take care of your laptop battery and ensure that it will be ready to work properly when you need it most. Some general tips for laptop…
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Toshiba Satellite C855-S5206 Review
The Toshiba Satellite C855-S5206 is yet another configuration from the laptop maker’s C855 cheap full-size 15.6″ series. Sporting the 2nd Generation Intel Core i3-2370M “Sandy Bridge” dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive, the Satellite C855-S5206 is a mid-range system with the last year’s CPU and the latest design. The CPU’s performance…
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WiFi Napping – An Adorable Way To Double Mobile Phone Battery Life
A Duke University student named Justin Manweiler has created a way to extend the battery life of mobile devices by making changes to WiFi technology. He calls it “SleepWell.” The more wireless devices there are in a space, the higher the drain is on each one’s mobile phone battery as they access the internet. Downloading…
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Battery extenders for HTC, Samsung, Blackberry smart phones
Battery cases are no longer the exclusive domain of iPhones, as Android-based phones ramp up in popularity. One of the most annoying aspects of travelling is running out of battery on your smartphone just when you really need it — when checking emails just after getting off a long flight, or trying to access maps…
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Lithium-Ion Batteries Market Set for Boom Courtesy of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Driven by plunging prices and accelerating demand from the electric and hybrid automobile market, lithium-ion will emerge as the world’s leading rechargeable battery technology and achieve 350 percent revenue growth from 2010 to 2020, according to a new IHS iSuppli Rechargeable Batteries Special Report from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). Global lithium-ion battery…
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Sony new Vaio SA and SB-series with docking stations and battery slices
Sony is equipping its new Vaio SA-series and SB-series with docking stations and battery slices. The laptop battery life is going to double, and the annoying plugging in of power cables will be a thing of the past. Sony Vaio VPC-SB1Z9EB with Battery Slice VGP-BPSC24 on the Docking Station VGP-PRS20 Who hasn’t stared jealously at…