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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: Cosmo Daisey who wrote (6751)9/21/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: mauser96  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
It may be that cell phone makers don't consider prolonged standby time to be a priority. For instance, I have a Nokia 5120, a great little phone, but the battery charger is designed for fast charge only, no trickle charge. The simple addition of the latter to my charger would mean I would have the choice of recharging over a 12 hour period with no fear of frying the battery, or to do it in a couple of hours. The real need may be for batteries that last longer while you are using the phone. CDMA is already the leader in talk time. Since even the most active user has to sleep eventually, I really don't see that 1000 hour standby is of any great value. As you mention, battery technology is static and it is limited by the chemistry of having to carry oxidizer and reducer in the same package. The only way to improve this is with electronics in the use of the power. Eventually there will be portable fuel cells, vastly better than batteries.
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