IEEE begins work on new cellphone battery standard, we circle 2029 for ratification
By Vlad Savov 
posted December 18th 2009 4:53AM
posted December 18th 2009 4:53AM
You'll excuse us for poking a bit of fun at the IEEE, but after it took seven years to finalize a wireless standard that didn't change for most of that time, we have to wonder how long a new battery rulebook is going to take. IEEE Std 1725 is the current set of commonly agreed rules, in effect since 2006, but apparently "the cellular industry has grown tremendously since then" and our needs as consumers have changed. No kidding, 1GHz processors and 1080p video recording can kind of do that. The Cell Phone Battery Working Group (a real entity!) will hold its first meeting on the topic in February, and the final outcome will lay out up-to-date rules on the requisite quality, reliability, construction, and discharge characteristics of modern cellphone batteries. Let's hope "smartphones that last more than a day" figures somewhere on that list.
Nokia is the best when it's about quality and style!!!;)
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More importantly Battery.
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quality - maybe ... style - no... yes it kind of depends on taste, but IMO they are all too similar (the details are identical between phones) and i don't like the parts that are identical - so imo they all look lame ...cheers xD
I'm not a technical person, but as I understand it our current smartphone batteries are limited by size. So new battery technology would be needed to increase battery capacity, and that takes research, not something that is usually the domain of the IEEE...
Why do I feel Apple is going to be troublemsome on having the same (removable) battery as everyone else ?
Good in concept. but you'll probably still be stuck with the "usage of any batteries other than our own may invalidate your warranty" issue. Not that they would have to know, but if the battery explodes or something they will probably be able to tell.
20 years?!? It takes less time for features to become standard in cars.
This is not sensible, there's no need for an IEEE spec and there's too much device variation to even consider it, seems a colossal waste of time and resources normally only seen in government departments.
Oh I see it's to 'review and revise' so there is already a standard, the same applies though. pointless and a waste of time, I'm sure the old standard isn't used anyway.
This is sort of silly. Batteries have no reason to be standardized. Networks, YES, chargers, definitely good, but batteries? Really? The market will deal with this long before the IEEE can do anything.
Can't they just use AAA type battery?