Technology to Make your Battery Last longer
Written by: Ray Toombs on November 1, 2012. If you are reading this then you probably have an Android device, and I am sure you would love it if your device lasted longer than one day. Joel Dawson and David Perreault, founders of Eta Devices have developed a new power amplifier design that results in twice the battery life for certain devices, including smartphones. Now, the technology still has a long way to go before it will be available in smartphones, but for a quick understanding of what they are working on. “RF power amplifiers change low-power radio signals into high-power signals, but the inefficient way in which this is accomplished is where cellphones lose power.” This new product will first be applied on the LTE Base stations they are saying some time next year. “Currently, it cost $36 billion to power cellular base stations, consuming nearly 1% of global power consumption. 640,000 diesel-powered generators are used to power base stations at a price of $15 billion paid f...