wimjam wrote:
> the battery issue is a problem but because of the backing of huge
> players (Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, Nec,...) it would be amazing that could
> not figure out how to prolonge battery life... but off course it will
> take a while.
In this type of game the "hugeness" of the players is not the key
issue, maybe the "hugeness" of the players may be delaying progress!
For breakthroughs in battery life physics inventions are needed,
this is normally done by a single genius-type research given the
right circumstances to work - that's typically better in a small
outfit, rather than in a huge gigantic multinational.
As an example, look at the blue LEDs/Lasers: this was a technology
which was clearly needed for a long time (around 30 years), and
all the huge players (SONY, HITACHI, Siemens, IBM, NEC, Hewlett-Packard,
and lots of government labs) were throwing billions of US$ at this
problem. The solution came from a company nobody had heard of before
by a single researcher without a PhD, and a budget of about
US$ 3 million. For more details see:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/bluelaser/
(these blue and white LEDs are by the way used a lot in mobile
handsets for illumination etc)
It's a testimony that the money huge players spend on promoting
their brands is well spent, that people start to think that
the huge branded companies are omnipotent and can solve the
battery problem as long as they throw enough money at it -
however this is not so. What's needed for these kind of problems
is not huge corporations with a huge amount of resources, it's
a single genius-type guy working intensely under the right
circumstances.
Gerhard Fasol
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