Sunday, April 09, 2006

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As I've observed before, it hard to find a good, simple cell phone. Apparently at least one manufacturer is starting to think this way; from a NYT article on batteries for electronics: The Nokia 1100 cellphone may not offer Bluetooth networking, a camera or even a color display, but it can go up to 16 days without being recharged. Colin Bullock, a senior engineer at Nokia in Dallas, says that stripping away the extras and using a black-and-white display sharply reduced the slow drain on the battery, something the engineers call the "quiescent current." 12:56:39 PM    comment []