The feature most people miss in a smartphone is the battery life.
In the smartphone era, the maximum juice I have managed to get are via the big-battery phones such as Lenovo Vibe P1M and Gionee Marathon M5 Lite, which is about two days on moderate-to-heavy use.
However, all this might change. As per a report by Bloomberg, a British fuel-cell developer is working on a cell phone battery that might last about 7 days.
How this technology works is that it converts hydrogen into electricity, leaving only water vapour as a byproduct. The adoption of this technology is increasingly rapidly and in future it will drive commercial power generators used by businesses including the furniture retailer Ikea.
Julian Hughes, acting managing director for Intelligent Energy's Consumer Electronics division, said in a statement, "Embedding fuel-cell technology into portable devices provides a solution to the current dilemma of battery life." He added, "With consumers demanding more and more from their phones, battery innovation has not kept up."
The company has shared that an upcoming smartphone brand is investing about GBP 5.25 million (roughly Rs 51crore) to develop a fuel cell small enough to be embedded in mobile phones.
The company source has also added that it would take about two years to get a fuel-cell powered phone in the market.
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