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To: John Curtis who wrote (18473)	2/29/2000 10:01:00 PM
From: Rich Wolf	Respond to of 27311

John, Yes, Pallisard had raised that topic. Over on yahoo, DennisV confirmed that it wouldn't be available until Sep'00. If you go to Dennis Roth's website, and go back to the timeframe of last fall's expo in Japan, there's news about Sharp's entry. As I described in a post (here or on yahoo?), the cells are the same format as the large Valence cells (4x5" or so, laid out in a flat array of 4 cells, to make a battery to power the laptop). The cells are the result of a joint partnership between Sharp and Hitachi-Maxell. No further information is available at this time. Rich

To: John Curtis who wrote (18473)	2/29/2000 10:02:00 PM
From: David Maginnis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

I called Ultalife about that last week and they said that the battery was made by Hitachi. I don't know if the following is the battery hitachi.com or if it is made by someone else?

To: John Curtis who wrote (18473)	2/29/2000 10:42:00 PM
From: eli74	Respond to of 27311

John, I read about something similar to that in PC World several months back (last summer?). Brief write-up in the new product section. (Please don't embarrass me by asking me any more details). Anyway, the article was unclear about whether this whizzbang was li-ion or li-polymer, or what the chemistry was.