Microsoft is working on building a smartphone with week-long battery life

[Guest Zach Epstein]

It's the smartphone holy grail: a handset that can last for more than a day or two on a charge. As the technology surrounding processors, displays and other smartphone components continues to progress at a breakneck pace, battery technology drags along and holds everything else back. In fact, smartphones would have progressed much further by now if powering them wasn't so difficult with modern battery tech.

 

According to a research team at Microsoft, however, battery technology isn't entirely at fault here. Instead, smartphone makers can and should create hardware and software that manages power better, and Microsoft is aiming to build a phone with week-long battery life using its discoveries.

 

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