Thread: Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life
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2008-12-20 , 04:07
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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../12/19/2338237

Anyone think this is really going to fly? If it does, it's got quite a potential to help mobile devices like the NIT.
Not really. If I read correctly the method reduces the power consumed by the antenna by the order of 12, not the whole device.

On a cell phone that may be a sizable chunk of the total power consumed, but on a WiFi/BT only device like our tablets... maybe not so much.

Edit: ... BTW, I think it will fly but other factors like RF & magnetic interference may have to be overcome first.
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