Category: Battery Technology
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How to replace your iPhone battery
Replace iPhone Extended Life Battery Instructions If your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is no longer holding a charge, and always running out of power, replacing the extended life battery is a moderate level DIY repair. If you’ve got the right tools and parts, it shouldn’t be too difficult to swap out that old battery…
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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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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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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…
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Top 16 Best Ultrabooks for 2012
Ultrabooks feature Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors Many of this year’s hottest new laptops are about one word: Ultrabooks. The term Ultrabook is actually pure marketing, dreamt up by Intel for a new generation of portable PCs featuring its technology. Like Centrino but unlike Viiv, it’s starting to stick as a catch-all term…
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Australia’s top 5 laptops based on battery life
Looking for a laptop that can run for most of the day without a recharge? The boffins at technology site CNET Australia reckon that HP‘s Folio 13 Ultrabook should be top of your list, as it gallops along for almost six and a half hours on a single tank of juice. Two more HP laptops follow the…
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New wireless hard drive for iPad now available
You can get it drivin’. You can get it flyin’. You can get it loungin’ in a hotel … Matter o’ fact, I got it now. Movies streaming from a wireless hard drive. A new wireless hard drive from Seagate is set to revolutionise the way travellers store and share movies, photos and info while…