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. More...

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 More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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 More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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". More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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,... More...

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... More...

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... More...

While the iPhone 4 may be getting all the attention with its antenna issue, all other iPhones are facing another issue with iOS 4. While at first thought to be a teething issue with... More...

Whenever a company releases or announced a device that doesn't have a removable battery, the question is always raised over how inconvenient will it will be to replace it. Apple, a company who fits this... More...

Energizer is known for their batteries and not for their software. So, if you have installed the software for the Energizer Duo battery charger to monitor the charging level of your batteries, remove the... More...

Microsoft said on Monday that users experiencing battery warnings from Windows 7 are by design. Last week Neowin revealed reports of users receiving notifications that they should replace their laptop battery. The warning is triggered when... More...

Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating a problem causing some Windows 7 users to receive incorrect battery warnings on their laptops. The warning is triggered when a laptops BIOS detects a battery replacement is required. Windows... More...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have unveiled tiny nuclear batteries that produce power from the decay of radioisotopes. Although such batteries are currently used in devices such as pacemakers and satellites, they are costly,... More...

HP has beaten Dell - in the laptop battery longevity hype stakes, that is. It's produced a notebook with a full-day runtime, it claims - five hours longer than Dell's most recent battery life boast.... More...

The Great Laptop Battery Recall of 2006 had everyone paranoid that their MacBooks or ThinkPads could catch fire and cause havoc at any moment. Although that string of incidents appears to be over, the most... More...

Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new version, developed through research led... More...

CNET Labs have just published the results of their Zune 80 audio-only battery drains and the numbers are somewhat disappointing. Microsoft rated the Zune 80 for 30 hours of audio playback with the Wi-Fi feature... More...

Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard appears to have brought with it battery drain and intermittent keyboard freezing issues, which are plaguing some MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. Numerous posts in Apple's support... More...

Cesar Menendez, a Microsoft employee working on the Zune, has posted battery life tests for the new Zune 4 ($199) and Zune 8 ($249) models, slated to be released this mid-November in the United States,... More...

Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers. They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3... More...

The lawyer who has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T said Wednesday the companies duped iPhone buyers by failing to disclose how expensive it would be to replace the battery. Larry Drury filed... More...

This tinny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running in task bar with private workset of 5.5M and 0% CPU it will do all... More...

Apple's iPhone may not have a user-replaceable battery, but now Apple is offering to replace said battery for $79 plus $6.95 shipping. Apple states that the repair will take three business days, not counting shipping... More...

Nick White, Vista's Product Manager, has responded to an article entitled "Vista, Aero, battery life . . . and Doom" by Dwight Silverman, the tech reviewer at the Houston Chronicle, regarding the impact that the... More...

Jim Wong, president of IT products at Acer Incorporated, believes that notebook battery safety (think overheating Sony fiasco) is the main reason why fuel cells and other advanced technologies that can be used as batteries... More...

Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace... More...

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the Xenium NRG, a mobile phone that uses a single standard-sized AAA battery as a backup for an extra three hours of talk time when the main battery dies, which... More...

At Waseda University, three scientists by the names of Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga have developed a new polymer-based 200 nanometres thick rechargeable battery that incorporates a high charge/discharge capacity, yet it is... More...

Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The... More...

Matsushita, aka Panasonic, announced that a safer lithium-ion battery for laptops is now ready for mass-production. How is it safer? A heat-resistant insulator is added to the battery cell. It is meant to prevent overheating... More...

Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi... More...

Unknown to some people and not widely advertised by Apple, there is a battery recall in effect for 15-inch MacBook Pro's that were purchaced between February and May of 2006. Symptoms are not specified... More...

On Tuesday, Sony said it would recall 60,000 of its notebook computer batteries in Japan, adding its own name to the list of PC makers recalling Sony-made batteries. Sony's move, which was expected, comes a... More...

The recall, expected this month, will encompass all possibly defective batteries, including those previously announced by manufacturers for specific notebook computers, said Julie Vallese, director of the Office of Public Affairs at the CPSC. But... More...

As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions, with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM are among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire. Dell has expanded the... More...

Researchers at Brown University in the US have created a prototype rechargeable battery that is as thin as a plastic transparency and as powerful as 100 alkaline batteries. The plastic battery, created by engineers Tayhas... More...