The Next Notebook Battery? Lithium Polymer 124
Lewis Clarke writes "Sony is changing its course to use an old technology for its new battery manufacturing. ZDNet is reporting on comments from Sony Electronics President Stan Glasgow, where he said that Notebook makers will 'likely' soon choose to incorporate lithium polymer batteries (a battery technology that emerged nine years ago) over the current commonly used type, lithium ion batteries." From the article: "Lithium polymer batteries use lithium as an active ingredient. Lithium is a volatile material, but the lithium in these batteries isn't packed into cells as it is in lithium ion batteries. Instead, it is contained in a polymer gel. These gel batteries can't provide the same sort of energy density as lithium ion batteries, but that's now a plus."
A Better Idea (Score:5, Funny)
Kaboom? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A Better Idea (Score:3, Funny)
Please go back to the drawing board... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A Better Idea (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, maybe we should rethink this whole battery thing and go back to luggables.
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Evan
Re:Please go back to the drawing board... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A Better Idea (Score:3, Funny)
No, it also exists in reality. [419eater.com]
That's so...Isolinear! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A Better Idea (Score:3, Funny)
Because Klingons flooded the market with substandard crystals. Damn near caused humpbacks to go extinct.
you could... (Score:3, Funny)
Now I have a beef with the cellphones, with the constantly shrinking size, last two stores I went into had no cell phones that to me are large enough to be useful. I don't want a tiny screen and buttons so small you mash three of them at once..but..that's all I am seeing until you get into the ridiculous price class range of PDAs, and now even those (smartphones) are too small. I'd swap 90% of the non phone call making functions in the phone if it was just a larger and to me a more practical phone. The couple I have now I will hang on to as long as possible because they are still moderately useful, but looking at the trends it looks like they want to embed cellphones into a tooth cavity or something pretty soon. I don't know what Lilliputians they use to test drive these new phones, but they have to be three foot tall max with fingers as big as toothpicks and eyes sharp as eagles.
Lithium (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:NOT TRUE (Score:3, Funny)
If the laptop owner has a chance of survival Sony might have to replace the device. With LiPo batteries, the number of reclaims could be greatly reduced.