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This is What a Smartphone With an 18,000mAh Battery Looks Like
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Kidding aside, this is what the Android world SHOULD be like: a variety of different designs fitting different specific needs. It’s such a lost opportunity that everyone is trying to make the same phone. Of course this gets lost in the usual “it’s not for ME so it should never be built!” posts.
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What’s wrong with aiming for 1% market share?
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What’s wrong with aiming for 1% market share?
Love it, tired of charging, just throw it in my car or bag, no more juice pack or ugly battery hump, but too bad it’s not IOS.
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while the execution is poor (per specs quoted), at least this represents a move in the right direction in terms of mobile phone size/weight philosophy. For too long, Apple has pushed their religion of "lighter" and "thinner" with no real justification. WHY does it need to be thinner? It makes it harder to hold, easier to drop, and compromises battery life. The focus for the last several years has been aesthetic-driven versus functionality-driven, in direct opposition to early Apple philosophy.
That would indeed be impressive because it would break the laws of physics if I am not mistaken. Going with 3.6V Lithium batteries 18000mAh would translate to about 64Wh. Charging that in 2hours with 18W of power does not compute.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say probably close to none. Or maybe they hired some ex-Nokia engineers?
I hope they don't allow this on airplanes and it should come with a carrying case:
https://brimstonefireprotection.com/products/battery-explosion-fire-containment-bag-large-laptop
Although, upon closer inspection, the website contains incorrect information regarding lithium-ion battery fires.
https://brimstonefireprotection.com/products/battery-explosion-fire-containment-bag-large-laptop
Although, upon closer inspection, the website contains incorrect information regarding lithium-ion battery fires.
Nothing changed. The iPhone XS Max didn't fit any of my pockets either.
Meh, except this particular model isn't even waterproof or shockproof so useless even there.
Is a swappable battery really so much better than a powerbank for nightly charging? Assuming that the phone's internal battery is large enough to only require nightly charging.
You'll need more raw battery capacity with a powerbank than with swappable batteries because of the power you loose due to charging inefficiency [to achieve the same total battery life]. But as the number of days (and thus number of swappable batteries) increases, the total-size-to-battery-capacity ratio moves towards favouring a single large external powerbank compared to several, individually-wrapped swappable batteries. And for a given battery capacity, a phone with swappable batteries will be slightly larger than one with a fixed battery. And sealing a phone is also easier with a fixed battery.
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I guess you could use it as purely a powerbank.
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How about a stick-in-a-car-for-emergencies powerbank? Or simply a stick-in-a-car cigarette-lighter-charging-cable?
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Yeah, the advantage of only needing to carry one device (instead of phone+powerbank+charging-cable) and not having to plug it in the evening very rarely will outweigh the disadvantage of having to handle a much thicker phone during use.
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