How often have you have thought of acquiring the power of monitoring your cellphone’s battery? Well, for most phones it would be just a dream, but thanks to openness of Android, it’s truly transparent.

The App is called PowerTutor, it does provide insight as to what’s using the most juice out of the battery – Is it the display, or CPU usage on an App, and even breakdown of power usage by apps.

No doubt, it’s far more superior than Android’s native .. Read Further »

When I first migrated to Windows 7 in it’s early BETA days, I was all too excited by the new stability, UI, features and quoted Battery life improvement. But, all this came with a bad [practical] news: I saw serious reduction in battery life.

The battery backup reduced from 2.5hrs to merely 1hr. I believed this was due to the the heavy Nvidia .. Read Further »

We may have been to Moon and back, but we still use those pencil size AA batteries which have poor life and are large in size.

Cost of manufacture of these batteries is estimated to be several billion $s every year, and the environment pollution caused is almost irreversible.

To counter this problem, conducting polymers have long been thought to be a solution in developing lightweight, flexible, .. Read Further »

Windows 7 RTM Review showed us how well it is when it comes to Performing as compared to Vista, XP.
We were happy there. But there’s one more thing with windows 7 that will delight users switching from Vista — 25% improvement in Battery life.

Ruston Panabaker, Microsoft’s principal program manager of strategic silicon .. Read Further »

Today, the most of the laptops come with removable batteries. This gives you flexibility to put in a fresh one when your original battery runs out of juice. But few manufacturers, like Apple, like to ship sealed ones.

Every Lithium-ion battery (standard for mobiles, laptops) have life of few charge-discharge cycles. Ideally its 360 full charges. That means you battery can be full dsicharged 360 times before it dies, On average this results in average life span of 2 years. Earlier I posted “Secrets of Prolonging Life of Lithitum Ion battery“. In this one, Let’s discuss why are sealed batteries better.