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That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
Also, we can barely get OEMs to support phones for 5 years now…
I’d say, 10 years is more than enough, the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.
the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.
Not if you can change the battery…
I am having to retire my 7 year old S5, which still works perfectly, because 3G networks are being switched off in a couple of months.
Not all phones are smartphones. Theres still plenty of use cases for call/sms only phones.
And they don’t support anything higher than 3G, which will go in history in a few years… and then the only thing you can use them for is a paper weight.
Bollocks. Nokia 800 tough, 2660 flip, 2720 flip, 225 4g, 6300 4g, 8000 4g - just from one manufacturer, and there’s plenty of others.
They’re called burner phones. No real OS on them, no upgrade path, nothing. You wanna make phone calls and send SMS, that’s fine, but let’s face it, most people nowadays don’t use phones just for that.
Remember when light bulbs used to last decades? A phone battery that lasts that long is incompatible with capitalism.
The original Edison bulb still works iirc
The battery is not the main point of failure in contemporary phones, especially not one that makes you buy new unit. This new radioactive battery doesn’t change much
Sensationalized clickbait.
100 microwatts, aiming for 1W in 2025. That’s a big difference and 1W is still not enough for a cell phone. Phone-scale batteries aren’t even on the roadmap.
You could do it with a parallelized output from a bunch of them.
Or with a diesel generator in a wheelbarrow
Oh, good. So whenever some fool tosses a phone out of a car to get crushed on the roadway, shoots one because TikTok, or otherwise mangles a phone, we now have a potential for radioactive material to be spread around?
No, read the article. It’s Nikel 63 and the decay is copper. It’s contained in a metal seal.
And Nickel 63 is… radioactive material
Yes, it is. Though safely contained in a metal case.
crushed on a roadway
shot
Ok, some impenetrable, invincible metal.
I do agree that it has to be titanium or something like that.
It outputs 0.1 milliwatts, can’t even power a single LED.
The size is smaller than a coin. Put enough of them in parallel and they’ll output enough power.
Yeah 5000 of them to get the 500 mW a smartphone needs in standby mode. 50000 if you want to power up the phone from stabdby (assuming it just uses 5 Watts)
It is the article that mentioned smart phones which is bullshit. This is a (probably expensive) battery specialized for extremely low power devices which need to run for many years. It will never be something that powers your phone.
The tech is really cool and there’s applications for such a battery - just not phones.
A lot of sensors/gauges in industrial applications are retrofitted with lorawan or similar remote readout capabilities right now. Battery life for these devices is already a big design consideration, especially since not all locations are easily accessible.
With a power source like this you would essentially charge a capacitor, use the stored charge to do a sensor read and short data burst, and then wait for the next charge.
They could eventually raise power levels. The tech can be further researched. We didn’t come to this Li-Ion battery capacity with no research.
I don’t need 50 years but 50 days (before recharging) would be cool
It’s a variation of the same scam: https://youtu.be/5M5MF6KE-jY?si=7odXF_9q2SkumX7X
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-25829
Betavolt seems to be just using those flashy 3D renders of a battery that likely doesn’t exist. It wouldn’t surprise me if their datasheets mirror what was claimed by NDB.
This again? It’s utter bullcrap I’m afraid.
Others pointed this out as well. It seems it is a scam, but it might become a viable solution in the not so distant future (10 years or so from now).
Fallout universe timeline, here we come!
50 Ci? That’s a helluva lot of activity.
And that’s for a battery that only produces 100 microwatts. A battery that produces 10000 times more power will be a lot spicier.
Perfect, my phone will outlast me
Depending on how radioactive the battery in your pocket is, that’s not hard.
So the reinventing of the Nokia is here. Capitalism probably won’t allow it unfortunately, the enshittening depends on degradation of everything
True, true.
Stil, it’s a nice idea… we can dream.
I just pitty all those artists that envisioned the 21st century with flying cars and stuff like that… we still run almost everything on petrol.
Some of the first pacemakers used radioactive batteries. We left that concept pretty fast. And that is considering you have to cut your patient open to change a pacemaker battery. This will not happen in commercial cellphones
I think so as well.
But, it would be nice if it could be applied to vehicles.
These tech articles on some new advancement are basically the same phenomenon of bullshit as articles ending in a question mark. The answer is always “nah”
