Intelligent Energy has signed a Joint Development Agreement with an unnamed emerging smartphone OEM to develop embedded fuel cell technology for the manufacturer’s devices. Once embedded, a fuel cell has the potential to keep a smartphone powered for more than a week on one charge.
Intelligent Energy’s Consumer Electronics division and the OEM will work together to deliver a tailored development and integration programme for a specific smartphone application to address limitations imposed by the lithium-ion batteries currently used as a source of power.
With smartphones using an increasing amount of power as they become more sophisticated, consumers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the current limitations of battery life. Embedding a fuel cell into the phone, means consumers can have off grid power for their phones when and where they want.
Julian Hughes, acting managing director for Intelligent Energy’s Consumer Electronics division, said: “We believe embedding fuel cell technology into portable devices provides a solution to the current dilemma of battery life and with consumers demanding more and more from their phones, battery innovation has not kept up. What we offer is a solution that is clean and efficient and means consumers could be truly mobile and free from the constraints of the grid.”
Author
Tom Austin-Morgan
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk