Neowin News Feed for: Battery

The technology that lets you charge your phone with a puddle of water

Andy Weir — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:32:28 +0100

The prospect of charging your phone with the help of a puddle of water might sound insane, but the technology is quite real, and it's going on sale soon... although it won't exactly be cheap. Read more...

Intel Haswell 'North Cape' reference design brings 10-hour tablet battery

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:23:32 +0100

Intel has demoed (again) a new reference design for their upcoming Haswell processors, known as 'North Cape', which brings a 10-hour battery life to a tablet/notebook hybrid Read more...

Microbatteries: 30 times smaller, 1000 times faster charging

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:28:26 +0100

A new research paper from the University of Illinois describes a special kind of micro-battery that would offer incredible performance and could be recharged in only a few seconds. Read more...

Nokia Lumia 928 will include an AMOLED screen, larger battery

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:34:39 +0100

Nokia's upcoming 928 handset, which will replace the 920 as the flagship phone, has an AMOLED display panel manufactured by Samsung, allowing for better colors and a bigger battery. Read more...

AT&T Lumias get reduced battery life estimates

Vlad Dudau — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:59:17 +0100

The Lumia 920 and 820 that are heading to AT&T have had their battery estimates slashed. What's even more interesting is that the international versions of the phones retain their original values. Read more...

OS X 10.8.1 improves battery life

Rob Schorman — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:36:05 +0100

If you upgraded to the latest version of OS X Mountain Lion, you could have noticed a severe drop in battery life on your MacBook. With an upcoming update, that should be a problem of the past Read more...

The "new" iPhone to use 1440 mAh battery

Jake Durasamy — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:19:29 +0100

With a lot of talk going around of Apple's new iPhone, we have what looks like a leaked photo of the battery and from that image, we can understand that the device will be using a dual-core processor. Read more...

Ads in free smartphone apps are draining your battery

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:57:37 +0000

A study of free apps on Android smartphones shows that up to 75 percent of the energy consumed by such apps is dedicated to showing targeted advertisements. Read more...

Nokia confirms availability of Lumia 800 battery update

Andy Weir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:06:28 +0000

Nokia's Lumia 800 has received much praise, but some users have complained of poor battery life. The availability of the second of two promised updates to address this issue has now been confirmed. Read more...

Apple replace first-generation iPod Nanos with sixth-generation models

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:46:06 +0000

After a problem was discovered with the first-generation iPod Nano battery, Apple has decided to replace the devices free of charge. One Neowin user has alerted us to the iPod he has received. Read more...

Apple files applications for fuel cell battery patents

John Callaham — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:11:55 +0000

Apple has filed for two new patent applications that involve using fuel cells to power batteries that, if used in notebooks, could power the devices "for days or even weeks without refueling". Read more...

Nokia reveals more on Lumia 800 battery issue

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:18:40 +0000

Nokia has revealed more information about the possible cause of a battery issue that is still affecting some units of its recent Windows Phone-based Lumia 800 smartphone. Read more...

Lumia 800 update released for battery issues and more

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:21:39 +0000

Nokia is now releasing a new software update for the Lumia 800 smartphone which is designed to fix a number of issues, including one that deal with the charging of the battery in the smartphone. Read more...

Lumia 800 to get two updates to deal with battery issues

John Callaham — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:35:53 +0000

Nokia's new Lumia 800 will get two software updates in order to deal with some battery draining issues that have been encountered by owners of the new Windows Phone-based device. Read more...

New research could increase current battery life by 10 times

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:56:19 +0000

A new report from Northwestern University describes a new way to create lithium-ion batteries that if put into production could increase the charge held by the battery by 10 times the current amount. Read more...

Apple admits iOS 5 battery issues remain for some users

John Callaham — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:39:31 +0000

Apple has openly admitted that the 5.0.1 update for the iOS 5 operating system has not yet fixed the problems with early battery draining issues for some users of the iPhone 4S. Read more...

Location feature the culprit of iPhone 4S battery drain

John Callaham — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:56:58 +0000

A number of owners of Apple's new iPhone 4S are reporting problems with a rapid battery drain which may be due to an issue in the smartphone's location services features. Read more...

MacBook batteries vulnerable to hack; could be explosively dangerous

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:13:09 +0100

A potentially dangerous security hole in Apple’s range of MacBook battery micro-controllers’ firmware could be exploited to destroy the batteries inside the notebooks, according to security researcher Charlie Miller. When looking into batteries in MacBooks,... Read more...

HP expands voluntary battery recall for laptops bought July 2007 to May 2008

Denis Wong — Sat, 28 May 2011 09:55:18 +0100

There have been a string of voluntary battery recalls affecting HP laptops purchased between July 2007 to May 2008, with models added to the list each year since May 2009. The first recall began with... Read more...

Brothersoft: iPad Glass, Battery Most Squeezed by Japanese Earthquake

Wendy Wong — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:32:23 +0000

Industry research firm IHS iSuppli said on March 17 that although many of the components in the iPad can be replaced with sources outside of Japan, the glass and the battery in the iPad may... Read more...