I-Coloured Mobile's ZJ268 offers 666 days of wicked standby

Ugh, what have we started? After showing you that Chinese cellphone with a reported 1-year standby, Solomobi returns with yet another dubious discovery from China. How does 666 days of standby tickle your noxious, soul-eating fancy? This dual-SIM, GSM900 / DCS1800 candybar with 3.0-inch display is said to achieve that milestone with the help of a 32,800mAh "super battery." Yours now for $128 and the blood of one fetal goat. We've got the phone on order and will get back to you in 616 665 666 two years with the results... right. Picture of the 87 x 51 x 10-mm / 0.12-kg lithium battery and the devil's own credit card after the break.

[Via Mobile Bulgaria, thanks Georgi]

[I @ Mar 20th 2008 4:38AM]

The devil wears Prada... on standby.

[karts41 @ Mar 20th 2008 4:40AM]

How did the manufacturer test the standby time?

Maybe this phone has been in development and testing for two years...

[JB87 @ Mar 20th 2008 5:08AM]

That got a giggle out of me, but here's the likely answer. They measured the current draw of the phone in standby and divided the battery's tested rating by it:

666 days = 15984 hours
32800mAh / 15984 hours = 2.052052... mA

So assuming the phone draws only 2mA of current while in standby (I don't know enough about modern phones to know if this is plausible or not), it checks mathematically.

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 5:14AM]

And michael jackson came over my house to use the bathroom.

[Wwhat @ Mar 21st 2008 3:30PM]

2mA isn't enough to be in standby AND connected to a network though, so we now we get the trick, like the old PMPO-rated amplifiers nonsense was bogus so this too counts standby as 'ready to be turned on' and not as you would normally expect a phone to be in standby in that it can receive calls.
So in fact we all have devices that have 365+days of standby, anything you can turn on by holding (rather than switching) a button after it's turned off would be considered in standby.

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 4:40AM]

Does enGadget just pull this stuff out of its ass or actually find some substance and do tests on these things ?

Go ahead and flame me , it will probably be a bunch of enGadget zombies anyways.


You know what your all thinking , don't deny it.

[Richard @ Mar 20th 2008 4:46AM]

@ XDS

........WOOOOSH!!

XDS

[DonatoM3 @ Mar 20th 2008 1:21PM]

Did you not read that they have one on order and will get back to us when it fails. Of course with engadget's sarcasm they're saying 2 years. But does every news agency test out a product before reporting what the manufacturer states their product can do.

[paul34 @ Mar 20th 2008 4:43AM]

I like the Aston Martin-ish "inspired" lens surround lol

[Imran @ Mar 20th 2008 8:06AM]

Ha yeah, it is quite nice :D

[francisco @ Mar 20th 2008 4:44AM]

im thinking if this is actually real why havent we seen anything like this before anywhere else besides these Chinese phones that have just started surfacing these last couples of days on the site.

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 4:47AM]

I'm wit you kid , but ofcoars i don't read Chinese so who the frig knows.

I'd love to buy one and reconfig the firmware to run other local spectrums , but im afraid ill end up getting a brick in the mail (literally)

[Hung @ Mar 20th 2008 9:41PM]

@ XDS

... So it turns out that the hardware—not the software—determines band support.

"who the frig knows."

I'm going to assume that's a question, despite the punctuation, and recommend that you ask someone that DOES read Chinese. It shouldn't be too hard. Chinese is gaining in popularity, especially in the east.

[roflercopterer @ Mar 20th 2008 4:49AM]

Well yeah any phone would have that kind of standby with a batter of that capacity. My mogul batter is only 1650 mah

[roflercopterer @ Mar 20th 2008 4:51AM]

Pat, I'd like to buy a y....wait is that a vowel?

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 4:54AM]

You ever hear of trickle charging ? , Even with 30,000mah's , the battery is bound to start to create its own downfall and "memory" after a while.

It's like me blowing a hot air balloon , the balloon could be as big as a house , its still gonna crash just about the same as a balloon as big as a basketball .

unless there using some kind of "wake on call" method , (keeping the phone in a completely coma state with only the signal beacon working. , I would be very skeptical about the specs on this .

Ofcoars who the hell has 2 years to kill to find out.

[Doug @ Mar 20th 2008 4:55AM]

So, when do we get to see the battery out of the camera? Oh, wait, they're still doing a runtime test!

[Jeremy @ Mar 24th 2008 4:59AM]

Are things with that high of an energy density allowed on American flights?

[Kevin @ Mar 20th 2008 5:12AM]

can someone tell which is the best mobile jap website for gettin stuff. are they safe to buy stuff off. is solomobi.com a safe site. ? . ok if I order one of these phones. and get it. How do I get vodafone or meteor settings on the phones so I can you them to text and use in ireland.

[Big @ Mar 20th 2008 5:20AM]

it's a sham... 30ah lithium? and i've got a bridge to sell you.

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 5:25AM]

I know !, Thats the first thing i thought of !, my freakin 2000XR+ doesn't even have that and the batteries are as big as my arm.


Srsly this post should be completely removed , no way in hell that this phone has a 32,000+ mah battery.



ENGADGET REMOVE THE POST.!

[Richard @ Mar 20th 2008 10:31AM]

Why remove it? Because you can't read? This post and the last one they wrote about this phone is full of sarcasm. They aren't telling you to buy it...

[XDS @ Mar 20th 2008 10:53AM]

Well you guys sure do have a cynical sense of humor .

[Mike Jenkins @ Mar 20th 2008 7:15PM]

And you must not have one at all.

[pallavnarang @ Mar 20th 2008 5:31AM]

that battery is surely going to kill someone when it blows up!
might just be a chinese terror device, slated to bring down the house in T-666 hours.

[atlasfugged @ Mar 20th 2008 1:13PM]

no, it's multi-purpose: cellphone / incendiary grenade

[Panid @ Mar 20th 2008 5:44AM]

OK heres the deal'

this phone with this spec sheet should be really low in power consumption (low q display, camera, no processor etc..,)
so if the battery actually is 32000 mAh then u can have it on for 2 years. but don sleep in those 2 yrs cuz if it blows up near you u aint gonna wake up again :P

[Jack @ Mar 20th 2008 5:52AM]

one of my family member once had a chea mobile phone yes chea(chinese company)--from their experience these guys cannot make a decent mobile phone and it should come as no surprise if this thing dint deliver 2 yrs stndby time. u think they care about minimum radiation levels???

[Shinigami @ Mar 20th 2008 6:04AM]

Lets wait for somebody to buy this phone and test standby time :D

[Mikey @ Mar 20th 2008 6:15AM]

How do they cram all those ampres into this tiny battery?



Ancient Chinese magic.

[ether @ Mar 20th 2008 6:35AM]

If you think that a $128 dollar phone has a mythical 32,000 mAH battery you're a lunatic. If someone came up with a battery like that it'd cost more than your computer...you know how many people would kill to have a cell phone that never ran out of battery life? That battery would be more than 20 times the capacity of the battery that comes in the iPhone or Nokia N95. Hell my Dell Inspirion 9100 20 pound laptop's battery is 6450 mAH factory...I mean really.

Who wants to order a few thousand of these batteries and fit them in real phones and sell the batteries for $1000 bucks a pop? Devil only wants your soul.

We need a separate section on Engadget for Chinese magic gadget propaganda.

[Martin Demin @ Mar 20th 2008 6:52AM]

One thing to note, this is a lithium battery, not li-ion battery. These have more energy per weight, so it is not impossible to have the 32Ah in it. The battery is also not rechargeable.

[filllx @ Mar 20th 2008 7:54AM]

@Martin
Li-ion = lithium ion. And litium batteries are rechargeable btw.

[Mike Jenkins @ Mar 20th 2008 7:17PM]

Martin's right.

What is the difference between Lithium batteries and Lithium Ion batteries?

There are several important differences. The practical difference between Lithium batteries and Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is that most Lithium batteries are not rechargeable but Li-ion batteries are rechargeable. From a chemical standpoint Lithium batteries use lithium in its pure metallic form. Li-ion batteries use lithium compounds which are much more stable than the elemental lithium used in lithium batteries. A lithium battery should never be recharged while lithium-ion batteries are designed to be recharged hundreds of times.

http://www.greenbatteries.com/libafa.html

[mister_s @ Mar 20th 2008 6:53AM]

its a $128 phone, n its Chinese, i bet it'll go bust even b4 you can finish the supposed battery life test.

[y3k.nik @ Mar 20th 2008 6:53AM]

I don't understand how hard can it be to find a power outlet, or a usb port and then charge your phone?


I am pretty sure that is safer than the chinese bombs.. urmm.. i mean batteries they are coming out with!

[sk @ Mar 20th 2008 9:57AM]

So which of those keys, the red or the green, lets me answer and which one lets me hang up ?

[andi @ Mar 20th 2008 11:25AM]

both sets. It's a dual SIM phone, so it's basically 2 phones in one. One set of red/green goes for one sim, the other for the other sim.

cheers

[Timothy Sottek @ Mar 20th 2008 8:16AM]

*ring ring...*

BOOM!

"Hey, where'd John's torso go??"

[James @ Mar 20th 2008 8:35AM]

Heh, like the above commenter, I *also* have a bridge to sell you if you actually believe a word of this. A typical *real life* Li-I battery for a laptop has about 4400 mAh and weighs a pound or two. At that energy density, you'd need to schlep around a 10+ pound phone for that kind of capacity, to say nothing of the propensity for self-discharge (losing charge on the shelf). Scam, scam, scam. WTF, Engadget?

[Mike Jenkins @ Mar 20th 2008 7:19PM]

It's a lithium battery, not Li-ion.

[vinconti @ Mar 20th 2008 9:11AM]

hey! anyone remember V=IR, P=VI? Any battery, regardless of capacity, can claim any mAh, depending on the voltage. my 1350 mAh cell phone battery puts out 1.3 amps for an hour, at 3.7 volts. If, however, this were only putting out 3.7 picovolts, than this same battery in my hand would be capable of 1350 billion, billion (10^12) mAh

my cell phone battery has a capacity of 1350000000000000 mAh

[mister_s @ Mar 20th 2008 11:29AM]

do u really think all the engineers n scientists working in electrical energy storage are fools?
the idea of standardization ever hit ur dumb brain?

the unit Ah has a standardization in the industry. it is suppose to reflect how much constant current will a new battery deliver over a 20 hr period

your 1350 mAh battery wasnt printed wid the 1350 mAh label not cos somebody fell in love wid this number, but because the battery belongs to a class which is capable of delivering 67.5 mA for 20 hrs constantly....

these values dnt claim, but represent the standardized capability of the battery.

[kro-bar @ Mar 20th 2008 6:40PM]

Actually 1350mAH means that it will put out 1350mA for 1 hour. I'm pretty sure AH doesn't have anything to do with 20 hour periods, and it most certainly does go up if you lower the voltage. If a battery can put out 1 amp for 1 hour at 3.7 volts it can put out 1 amp for 10 hours at .37 volts and so on, But since this battery is labeled 3.7 volts that is what the mAH rating should be done at...but it is Chinese and they often seem to pick their numbers out of thin air instead of testing.

[Thorin78 @ Mar 20th 2008 9:20AM]

ahh, numerology 666 is a lucky number to Chinese people so it's understandable to market a phone w/ 666 days of standby.

from Wiki* " in Chinese culture 666 is a lucky number since a single 6 is considered fortunate"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_%28number%29

[Dan @ Mar 30th 2008 1:52PM]

Probably the funniest thing about this to me is the "Regent University: Online Christian Learning" ad directly below your "devil" story.

[firebat45 @ Mar 20th 2008 11:47AM]

I don't think this a li-ion battery, this is a li-po (lithium polymer). IIRC, li-ion is 3.3 volts per cell nominal, and li-po is 3.7 (see the 3.7 on the battery). Judging by the size, that would be about 1000mah, not 32800. For the most part, lipos of the same capacity are the same size, it doesnt vary much by manufacturer. I have a pair of 4400mah batteries that are both massive compared to this.

[nh @ Mar 20th 2008 12:02PM]

I love it that they are using the text printed on the battery as evidence.

The Chinese will print anything on their products to make them sell, but it's all just words... 'CE', 'Official Nokia Product', 'Mercury free', 'Fairtrade', 'Not produced by children in a sweatshop', '32800mAh'

[Grant @ Mar 20th 2008 1:31PM]

"Safe for human consumption"

[Michael @ Mar 20th 2008 6:52PM]

Does no one remember the news about 10x capacity batteries, in the same weight/size?