sony-logoWith each passing generation of smartphones, you can be sure that there will be more and more features packed into the particular device, and while batteries get more efficient as time goes along, the added functions in smartphones would more or less offset whatever gains in battery efficiency. Still, I am grateful that companies are working on improving battery capacity and life along the way, and Sony is one company that has made quite a leap in the form of a new high-capacity battery which will be based on a sulfur compound as opposed to lithium-ion.

The electrode in sulfur-based batteries would normally dissolve into the electrolyte too fast with each charging cycle, and this is turn lowers the capacity of the battery. Sony claims that their new batteries will sport 40% more capacity thanks to the new sulfur compound which will function differently from normal ones. In other words, a similarly sized 3,220mAh battery might theoretically speaking, deliver up to 4,500mAh of battery life, now how about that for progress?

We will still need to wait before Sony commercializes these batteries though, but at the very least there is that promise of a brighter future. It is the waiting part that is excruciating. [Nikkei Translated Page]

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