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We have looked at different approaches in this blog and the 3G4G website on reducing the power consumption (see related posts below). In a...

Back in October, Huawei held Better World Summit 2020 (a.k.a. "Win-Win Future" Global Online Summit). The theme of this online su...

I did a presentation back in 2013 on the concept of smart batteries. Even though there has been a lot of progress in wireless charging ...

Back in 2013, I spoke about Smart Batteries . Still waiting for someone to deliver on that. In the meantime I noticed that you can use an A...

I made an attempt to place the different cellular and non-cellular LPWA technologies together in a picture in my last post here . Someone...

I added an answer on Quora but I think there can a a discussion on this. So here it is (embedded). Feel free to let me know what you think....

I am sure many people would have heard of ET (Envelope Tracking) by now. Its a technology that can help reduce the power consumption by o...

Wireless charging has been in news recently with the discovery that Apple has found a brilliant way to wireless charge iPhones, iPads a...

I did a presentation in the Cambridge Wireless Future technology SIG about what we call 'Smart Batteries'. The presentation is ...

Sometime back we had news about how VoLTE is battery killer and how it would suck our 4G phones dry. Well, I agree. I am no fan of VoLT...

Understanding smartphone traffic - Droidcon View more presentations from Ericsson Labs If you like the above then also check out the ...

The WPC has chosen the Qi logo as the international symbol of wireless charging compatibility. Qi—pronounced “chee”, meaning “vital energy” ...

Forty-five years ago, when, to most people at least, chips only ever came with fish, a man called Gordon Moore wrote a paper in which he sa...

We have talked about WiTricity and Nokia's self-recharging phones but they seem to be a bit far away. From The Independent : PowerPad ...

Kenya is home to at least 17 million mobile-phone customers, but only one million have regular access to electricity, making it difficult to...

Standby mode is often accused of being the scourge of the planet , insidiously draining resources while offering little benefit other than a...

In the past decade the no of users switching notebooks has dramatically increased. Not only are the business personal, normal users accessi...

While we can see that the technology in mobile phones have advanced significantly, its still lagging on the battery front and there is no &#...