Is your battery your biggest smartphone/laptop issue?

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Typically they last for a day before needing recharging. It'd be interesting to hear your experience.

Maybe in about two to four years there'd be a solution. The following article may be of
interest: http://m.tgdaily.com/mobility-featu...ery-technology-promises-ten-times-longer-life

This second article gives more information and based on what it's saying, I'd expect this battery to hit retail stores in five to ten years: http://mobile.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15735478

The interesting part of this article starts ten paragraphs down: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/17/boffins_build_much_better_lithium_ion_battery_cathode/

PS Forgot to mention tablets in the title
 
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Very interesting, probably won't see it for years and even then more then likely the first one will be used by only one manufacture as a flag ship phone. I would like to see this on a laptop though.
 
My cell battery was starting to die, so I found an extended life replacement battery on Amazon. Surprisingly it works well. Depending on how much I use my phone during said day, I can go to bed with 70% battery left, or 19%.

My laptop battery lasts about 2-1/2-3 hours with general use (Down from around 5 hours when I first bought it [it's a 9-cell]).

My tablet can last for a full two weeks depending on how much I use it and what I do with it. I have it set to disable wifi when the screen is off.

If we get a battery like the one in the article, that would be fantastic.
 
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I would suppose that the two to four years mainly depends on a factory being built. It would be nice to get an update on that article. I also think that competition are working on their own versions of better batteries. Time will tell.
 
Like said above, I would always take a higher watt hour battery (ie, longer lasting in general terms).

Personally though, with my 2 dell laptops (D630 and M90) it was never difficult to coach 4 hours+ battery life out of them. Simply put, it helps a lot if you underclock/undervolt the processor, use low volt RAM (when possible), and undervolt/underclock the GPU, as well as turn off/disable/remove any devices that you do not need or use. Though some of these you have to hack or install a hacked BIOS to coach that extra life.

Phone wise I only have to charge it every other day, so that is never an issue.
 
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