iPhone Battery Life Increased By 12 times
December 27th, 2008
Many including professional hackers tried to do everything on iphone since it has launched but didn’t reach their aim. Now a PhD student from Carleton University in Canada, Atif Shamin has invented a transmitter system on-package that can enhance the battery life of mobile devices. He created a system or module that replaces all of the wires connecting a phone’s electrical circuits and the antennae. He also replaced all of the internal wires. Due to this the power consumption for a mobile device can be reduced. He used a high frequency micro-transmitter and receiver that can avoid the loss of power through a wire. And finally he did the experiment with a iPhone and made it possible by increasing the battery life of it by 12 times.
I wish my phone could be 12 times more battery backup. Its really very cool..
The reason that he claim is insane. He reduced the power consumption of the radio by a power of 12, he did not increase the battery life by a power of 12.
This is a revolutionary idea. Please let me know HOW this can be done.
Thank you.
Another marvelous concept. If this can really be done, then, maybe in the future, we can create phones that don’t die on the user.
Absolute rubbish! This is not possible, it’s a Hoax.
A “System Module” that replaces wires and is more effiecent LOL anytime laymen see something with so many technical terms they assume there must be truth to it when in fact it is a hoax. Always think of it this way, if Apple could get 12 times the battery life out of the phone they would have sent a lear Jet to pick up this guy and he would have been on CNN and every other news show by now! Heck he would have solved the world energy problems because every battery operated device could be made to run 12 time longer, including electric cars
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This sounds really great!! But like most things, first see it, then believe it. This guy can make a fortune with this idea. I think it’s just “another of those stories”, and in the mean time i am sitting here in the Netherlands with an iPhone with a battery wich dies way too quick. Lol.
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Richie Lassard
So where are all these wires? The last devices produced that were full of wires were made back in the late 80’s. For the last 15 to 20 yrs engineers have used multi layer circuit boards and surface mount devices, no wires. Don’t believe everything you read on the web folks.
Settle down everyone…
The claim is not 12x greater battery life, but simply that the amount of power requirement for antenna usage is 12x less. What fraction of total power consumption this is (from the screen, power hungry GPS, etc) isn’t stated. Actual battery life improvement will certainly be much less. You can read “much less” as “zero improvement” if you aren’t using the antenna.
Regarding some of the extreme statements of hoax and impossibility, all he is doing (not to diminish the idea and work which are pretty cool) is removing a bunch of “middle-man” electronics between the data source and the antenna itself. He ditches stuff like pre-amps and conditioning and couples directly from source to antenna… the corresponding reduction in component count saves needless power consumption. Very neat, but the 12x claim is getting highly distorted.
I am an electrical engineer and this is stupid…yes, you can increase battery life by introducing newer, more efficient, more EXPENSIVE components. This defeats the purpose of the whole business behind any products; trying to optimize expense of production to actual price of a unit.
@Paul – I’m also an engineer and am unclear why you automatically assume this is more expensive. It is less components, not more. I doubt (but do not know or assume) that it is more expensive. It is just smarter to directly couple the signal. If intermediate gain and conditioning are not needed, throw them out the window… that is what is done.
I consider it similar but not identical to using a single 24-bit ADC instead of a 16 bit ADC and extra gain electronics to maximize the input range of the 16-bit ADC (and therefore maximize effective resolution). The latter is conventional, but using the 24 bit ADC is smarter, usually gives you more than 16 bit resolution (in low gain applications), uses less components, uses less space, and is often cheaper overall. Someone like you would be right in saying that a 24 bit ADC is more expensive than a 16 bit ADC, but you’d also be missing the bigger picture and the better solution.
@mke3john
does it really matter dude? if it reduced power consumption then the battery life becomes longer. its simple.