The “Break it Down” Blog

Apple Improved iPhone Battery

The new battery will give 8hrs of talk time and 250hrs of standby… that’s nice, but that was never the issue people had raised. If you remember the keynote where the iPhone was announced, the proximity detector in the handset turns the screen off when you put the phone up to your ear and turns [...]

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New Super Battery in the Works (This Year)

The company is called EEStore and they are being incredibly tight-lipped about their new battery technology that they are going to roll out this year into some hybrid vehicles and eventually down into consumer electronics (my guess in the next 2 years), for a quick summary of the battery tech: The company boldly claims that [...]

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IBM/Lenovo Recall Batteries

Well now that I’m a ThinkPad T60 owner this effects me, and maybe some of you. IBM/Lenovo have joined the recall fray recalling all their Sony batteries… just like everyone else. Use this link to check your battery.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Battery Life, 3.5 or 9 hours?

I currently have a MacBook Pro, and besides technically being a great laptop, the battery life (in my opinion) is really bad, around 2.5hrs. I talk to other mobile friends and aparently this is the norm. Norm or not, I don’t consider a computer “mobile” until I can take it somewhere and use it for [...]

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10 Tips on Maximizing Laptop Battery Performance

Jeremy Toeman has put together an excellent post on getting the most out of your laptop battery over on his blog here. While some of the tips are fairly self explanitory (like closing unused programs) he goes into a bit more detail specifically mentioning programs we tend to ignore and leave open like IM clients, [...]

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