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<\/a>A generation ago, when there weren\u2019t yet smartphones, early laptop computers ran on Nickel Cadmium batteries. Those were the type which developed \u201cmemory\u201d if you left them on the laptop charger<\/strong> for too long, and had other limitations which made them comparatively primitive to lithium ion laptop batteries. But what made Li-ion such an advancement over Nickel Cadmium is that the same amount of juice could be gotten from a battery which was thinner and lighter. Laptops got thinner and lighter while offering more hours of battery life. Devices like the MP3, iPod, whose batteries had to be small enough to keep the device no bigger than the size of the user\u2019s hand, were able to debut with realistic battery life. But unlike laptops which are typically only used at Point A or Point B, or iPods which are typically only used for a single function with the screen turned off most of the time, smartphones are natural born battery hogs, requiring a new battery technology if users are to be able to get through the day without having to worry about preserving enough NOKIA 3310 Mobile Phone Battery<\/span><\/a> power to make one last phone calling.<\/p>\nMost smartphone usage comes with the screen turned on, which is an exorbitant cell phone battery<\/strong> drain. Smartphones also tend to have two to three different kinds of wireless networking turned on at any given time, from cellular to Wi-Fi to Bluetooth, which is also a heavy drain \u2013 particularly when it can\u2019t find a signal. Throw in the overwhelming battery drain caused by video game apps, and it adds up to a recipe where USB battery bricks and \u201cbattery cases\u201d are more common than users wish they were. Tablet PCs face the same usage strains, but because they\u2019re significantly larger than smartphones, they have room for a much larger HP hstnn-ob89 extended life battery<\/a>. Teardowns of some popular tablets reveal that the majority of their internal space is occupied by an oversized battery. Smartphones can\u2019t house batteries as large, and are therefore more prone to coming up short of user battery life expectations. Whether it be Apple or Google or Samsung or some other player the first company to offer a normal sized smartphone with fifty hours of screen-turned-on battery life is likely to win the smartphone battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"