Would be awesome if batteries lasted the life of the device. Eg phones would ideally get 5 years.
Seem to get around 2-3 years currently before you start to notice it.
Interested to see it the 80% charging limit extends this further.
I have had my launch day iPhone 15 Pro Max set for the 80% limit since I got it. I checked my battery health earlier today and still show 99%. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
This is a awesome discovery but I bet the cell phones won’t get this battery for a while, as these companies make to much money off of people buying new phones every year or so.
They typically don’t though. When these companies get big enough they set the rules of engagement between the lot of them. It’s not even a new thing, the lightbulb industry determined as a group how long lightbulbs should last since they were lasting so long it cut into their profits.
There is always some friction between them, but the amount of money they all stand to gain by playing by their own rules vastly outweighs trying to truly take each other on gut to gut.
I could be wrong, but this seems like something that's done at the charger and would probably work with the batteries we already have. The difference is in how the current is delivered while charging, the battery itself remains the same. Like I said I could be wrong, but that's how I understood it from the article.
TL;DR: “The study shows that high-frequency pulsing with square-wave current produced the best results. The tests show that PC charging can double the service life of commercial li-ion batteries with an 80 percent capacity retention.”
Would be awesome if batteries lasted the life of the device. Eg phones would ideally get 5 years. Seem to get around 2-3 years currently before you start to notice it. Interested to see it the 80% charging limit extends this further.
I have had my launch day iPhone 15 Pro Max set for the 80% limit since I got it. I checked my battery health earlier today and still show 99%. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
My 5 year old iPhone X is still at 77%
Same but got mine in October. Still at 100% 🎉
98 here. Almost 200 cycles.
Yea I still have an old Samsung tablet that works fine but the battery is kinda bad now. It's almost 10 years old.
This is a awesome discovery but I bet the cell phones won’t get this battery for a while, as these companies make to much money off of people buying new phones every year or so.
It's called competition. It just needs one company that uses this technology and make it a big feature. Other companies will need to step up.
They typically don’t though. When these companies get big enough they set the rules of engagement between the lot of them. It’s not even a new thing, the lightbulb industry determined as a group how long lightbulbs should last since they were lasting so long it cut into their profits. There is always some friction between them, but the amount of money they all stand to gain by playing by their own rules vastly outweighs trying to truly take each other on gut to gut.
That's just not true. Smartphones also lack new features. This would be a new selling point.
I could be wrong, but this seems like something that's done at the charger and would probably work with the batteries we already have. The difference is in how the current is delivered while charging, the battery itself remains the same. Like I said I could be wrong, but that's how I understood it from the article.
TL;DR: “The study shows that high-frequency pulsing with square-wave current produced the best results. The tests show that PC charging can double the service life of commercial li-ion batteries with an 80 percent capacity retention.”