Have an old Game Boy, portable cassette or CD player, or other gadgets designed to run on alkaline batteries, but hate buying disposable batteries? One solution is to switch to rechargeables. Another? Switch to USB power. Of course, that second option is easier said than done. But a new Kickstarter campaign aims to make it […]
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Purism upgrades the Librem 5 Linux phone battery to 4,500 mAh ahead of shipping
Mass production of Purism’s Librem 5 Linux smartphone is underway and the company expects to begin shipping phones to customers later this month or in early December. While Purism had already shipped a small quantity of pre-production units to early backers, the phones about to head out the door are part of the company’s “Evergreen” […]
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Energizer P18K smartphone with 18,000 mAh battery hits Indiegogo
Tired of carrying around a portable battery pack because your smartphone battery isn’t big enough to make it through the day? Last month Avenir Technology unveiled the Energizer Power Max P18K, a device that’s more battery than phone, at least in terms of volume. The phone features a 6.2 inch, 2280 x 1080 pixel LCD […]
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Energizer P18K Pop smartphone sports an 18,000 mAh battery… and it’s ridiculously thick
5 Comments on Energizer P18K Pop smartphone sports an 18,000 mAh battery… and it’s ridiculously thickEarlier this month the company that produces phones sold under the Energizer brand name announced plans to show off a phone with a massive battery at MWC. It’s called the Energizer Power Max P18K and it sports a 6.2 inch display and the company says it offers “weeks of battery life on a single charge” […]
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Windows 10 build 17639 RS5 brings Sets updates, Bluetooth battery percentage
One of my favorite things Google added to recent versions of Android is the ability to see the battery level of connected Bluetooth devices from the Quick Settings drop-down. While I’m a big fan of using Bluetooth headphones on in order to avoid getting tangled up in wires, it can be kind of a pain […]
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Amazon issues recall for 6 different AmazonBasics portable power banks (fire hazard)
Amazon sells a wide range of cheap, but generally decent products under its AmazonBasics brand. You can find AmazonBasics luggage, Bluetooth speakers, cell phone cases, and computer keyboards, just to name a few categories. But one product type you probably won’t find on Amazon.com today? An AmazonBasics portable power bank. Working with the US Consumer […]
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Energizer Power Max P16K Pro promises all-week battery life (in a huge phone)
As expected, the Energizer Power Max P16K Pro smartphone with a massive 16,000 mAh battery is on display at Mobile World Congress this week. Unfortunately it’s just an early prototype at this point, so the folks at GSM Arena, Mashable, and TechRadar who got a look at it weren’t able to turn the phone on. […]
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Energizer Power Max P16K Pro smartphone packs a 16,000 mAh battery
Mobile chip makers have gotten a lot better at balancing power and performance recently, so that it’s not unusual to find a phone with a 3,000 mAh battery (give or take) that offers all-day battery life. But what if you’d rather have all-week battery life? There are a handful of phones with 4,000 mAh or […]
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Apple will let iPhone users disable CPU throttling (at their own peril)
Some folks have been claiming for Apple intentionally releases software updates that slow down performance of older iPhones in order to prompt customers to buy new phones. So when the company acknowledged last year that a software updated designed to prevent phones with older batteries from shutting down unexpectedly was doing so by slowing down […]
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TENAA reveals iPhone X battery, RAM specs
Apple likes to talk about some of the specs in its phones and tablets: the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X all have a brand new A11 Bionic processor which is widely regarded as the most powerful smartphone chip on the market to date. But when it comes to other specs, Apple usually skips them […]