Realme Charts Path To 10,000mAh Phone Batteries by 2026 (pcmag.com) 35
Realme plans to double smartphone battery capacity to 10,000mAh within its three-year strategic roadmap, the company said at tradeshow MWC on Tuesday. Current flagship devices typically offer 5,000mAh, while Realme's latest models already ship with 6,000mAh cells. The company expects to implement 7,500mAh batteries next year before reaching the 10,000mAh target, PCMag reported, citing the firm.
Nothing but an ad (Score:5, Interesting)
This is nothing but an ad for a specific brand of phones.
Everyone has a "three year roadmap", it's always three years in the future because that's when everyone has forgotten the empty promises. They have nothing to back this up, other than "we will add more battery".
They could have it today (Score:5, Informative)
They could have 10,000mAh phone batteries today, the phones would just be a bit thicker.
They would still fit in your pocket though.
(they would also have room for an audio (3.5mm) socket and a microSD slot.)
Re: They could have it today (Score:2)
A microSD card and headphone jack? Hey wouldn't that be something... But it seems like consumers actually enjoy having useful features removed. I's a sort of flex. I think they'd actually want a smaller battery and maybe some hooked barbs on the sides, so that it draws blood whenever you take it out of your pocket. They should put that on the roadmap.
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... and maybe some hooked barbs on the sides, so that it draws blood whenever you take it out of your pocket...
Would you keep your voice down? Maybe they haven't thought of that yet!
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Or keep the thickness, get rid of the camera bumps, and still have larger batteries.
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Maybe make it durable enough that it doesn't need a protective case. Half the thickness of my phone is the case.
Re: They could have it today (Score:2)
There are phones with ridiculous batteries already today. Typically used by people who generally prefer ruggedized versions of everything.
For example Unihertz Tank 3 Pro
23800 mAh battery, 120W charging,.
built in 100 lumen laser projector for projecting all those, erm, Linux Isos you download into its 512GB storage, large part of the backside consists of a cob led array capable of producing 1200 lumens, which is in the same league as car headlights in terms of output. But if you don't want to create daylight
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Unihertz Tank 3 Pro -- 23800 mAh battery, 120W charging -- built in 100 lumen laser projector ...
Looked at product page [unihertz.com] ... also has built-in fan to dissipate heat when running that projector -- a phone with a cooling fan, now I've seen everything. :-)
Bad units (Score:1)
Does anybody else think that milliamp-hours is a stupid unit? You've got a simple SI unit for charge: the Colomb. It's 3.6 kilocolumbs (kC). Why overcomplicate things?
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(10.000/20=500/5=100) Or do you believe it's easier to transform the kC's in actual voltage and current?
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I'd perfer just saying Ah rather than mAh when you are talking about 10k mAh, but Wh is really the "right" unit to be using if you care about the energy stored and are not providing a cell voltage.
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There are no Volts and no 5V involved. Even if you'd be assuming 5V as an extra data (it isn't 5V in most practical cases but let's go with it) 20h x 5V x 0.1 A is NOT 100 Wh.
Re:Bad units (Score:4, Informative)
Does anybody else think that milliamp-hours is a stupid unit? You've got a simple SI unit for charge: the Colomb. It's 3.6 kilocolumbs (kC). Why overcomplicate things?
No we don't. Mainly because the amper is something you can intuitively measure with gear that is visible and known while the Colomb is not. You cant convert to Colomb if you want, but it doesn't help anyone's understanding. There are electrical engineers the world over who have never worked with the unit of Colomb but daily have to deal with amps, volts and watts.
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I think you missed the point, which is that, without knowing the voltage, milliamp-hours doesn't tell you anything. Is it at 5 Volts or 50,000 Volts. Big difference, no real clue from the unit used (there is from the context of what device it powers, of course, since it should be a 1 to 2 digit number for voltage and probably in multiples of approximately 3.6, but that's not really good enough).
Of course, aside from that, things like amp-hours and wattt-hours are kind of inherently stupid because amps are a
Coulomb not Colomb or columb (Score:2)
1Ah=3,600C
10,000mAh=10Ah=36,000C
Would you prefer 36kC or 36,000C or 36,000,000mC?
I would say that 10Ah is the simplest.
Not many people are familiar with the Coulomb not sure why you think it would be a good choice for consumers in the context of cell phone batteries.
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Yes. Just lower the Wattage, and the amp hours goes up. So if they're planning on lower-wattage phones, then they can achieve the target without changing batteries at all. Just use Watt-hours.
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Does anybody else think that milliamp-hours is a stupid unit? You've got a simple SI unit for charge: the Colomb. It's 3.6 kilocolumbs (kC). Why overcomplicate things?
Apparently some folks don't have a sense of humor.
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Does anybody else think that milliamp-hours is a stupid unit?
Nope.
You've got a simple SI unit for charge: the Colomb.
Why is the Columb 'simple'? Nobody cares about what 'charge' their phone battery has. With milliamp-hours you can roughly tell how long your battery will last based on a certain amperage draw, which is all people care about when it comes to the battery in their phone.
Why overcomplicate things?
I guess I could ask you the same question. Everybody knows what an hour is, and most people know what an amp is. Almost nobody knows what a Columb is.
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Yes, but if you watch solar battery testing on YT an important metric is how much current can be drawn continuously.
Coulomb doesn't cover that either.
10Ah is only assumed to provide enough current for the phone.
I'd like to know that it can power a Pixel 9 for 12 hours at full draw or 72 hours at idle.
e.g.
Why do people have so much trouble with metric? (Score:2, Funny)
Translation for the metric illiterate: that's 10 Ah
For the people who really like zeros it's 10,000,000,000 nAh
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Because marketing knows that 10,000 is more impressive than 10. As I stated above, it really should be Colombs anyways.
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No one is having trouble with metric here. mAh is a metric unit. just like the Ah is. Batteries for portable devices are universally measured in mAh so why not stick to it and save people doing math. We don't indicate road signs in meters per second either.
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If only. Airlines have policies on batteries which can be carried in luggage defined in Wh, which makes more sense (energy being the actual quantity of interest) but usually requires checking the voltage and multiplying by the "capacity" in Ah.
More capacity is nice and all (Score:2)
You've kind of got to have both ends working together. Yeah you can increase capacity but you also need hardware manufacturers to not just use it up. Sort of like how Microsoft has a bad habit of guzzling RAM.
Let's get into physical! (Score:2)
More power density (Score:2)
With more power density in the same size package, comes more chance for thermal runaway and pants fires.
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With more power density in the same size package, comes more chance for thermal runaway and pants fires.
At some point it becomes rocket fuel.
(OK, I had to look it up ... lithium ion batteries are two orders of magnitude away from rocket fuel when measured as MJ/kg.)
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With more power density in the same size package, comes more chance for thermal runaway and pants fires.
Is there any technical challenge with increasing battery capacity? Aren't all the challenges business-related? Are consumers willing to buy a phone that is heavier in exchange for increased battery life? Phone manufacturers could make a 50000 mAh phone today if it would sell. Of course, no one would buy a 1 kg phone, since most users wouldn't use that much energy in one day and the extra weight just becomes a nuisance.