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Battery Dead? Blame the Display or the Weather

Posted on August 26, 2008

The more our cell phones come to resemble miniature computers, the harder it is to eke out decent battery life, leaving some of us with little more than fancy bricks at the end of a long day. In order to get a better sense of what exactly saps the juice from cell-phone batteries, I talked to a few people in both the chip and handset worlds.The biggest battery drain, according to my sources, comes from the display, which is one reason it s going to be hard for iPhones and such to move much beyond 4-inch displays with current technology. A solution can be found in organic light-emitting diodes...

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