Sony Announces New Lithium Ion Batteries

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Sony Corporation has announced a new line-up of lithium ion batteries, boasting the industry's highest level of energy density.
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Mmhh, I can't think of any Sony product that would benefit from this. Oh, wait...
 
I suppose this is good news for the low end consumer electronics, but I'd like to see Sony condense Li-ion batteries in the range of 15V, 11000 mAh like Electrovaya's power pads. There's nothing like being able to use a notebook unplugged for more than 24 hours. =P
 
1800mAh - 2550mAh >> 6-9%. Try a 40% bump in capacity.

And that said, I didn't know 2550mAh was the record. I thought battery tech had already hit 2700mAh and even 3200mAh. They might just be talking about LiPos though. I think NiCds are higher. PEACE.

EDIT: BTW, how do you charge the spare? Doesn't the PSP charge in some cradle thing?
 
well perhaps some battery packs are higher than 2550 mAh, but it can be due to the arrangement of cells in the pack itself.

The PSP's pack looks about the size of 3 AA cells, and since it's 3.6V, we know they couldn't have setup some cells in parallel to increase the amp rate, because you need a serial setup for the voltages to add up. 1.2 + 1.2 + 1.2 = 3.6V, using 3 1800 mAh cells.

But then I still dont understand why Sony used 1800 mAh cells when even their digicams ship with 2100+ NiMH
 
mr2mike said:
well perhaps some battery packs are higher than 2550 mAh, but it can be due to the arrangement of cells in the pack itself.

The PSP's pack looks about the size of 3 AA cells, and since it's 3.6V, we know they couldn't have setup some cells in parallel to increase the amp rate, because you need a serial setup for the voltages to add up. 1.2 + 1.2 + 1.2 = 3.6V, using 3 1800 mAh cells.

But then I still dont understand why Sony used 1800 mAh cells when even their digicams ship with 2100+ NiMH
One Li-ion/poly cell is 3.6V. So it's a single cell, maybe multiples in parallel, but who knows. There are 20A and greater LiPo battery packs for electric airplane applications, so it might not be necessary if they found a high-discharge cell that did the job. I hope they at least do this, if not a 2700+mAh batt when the make bigger ones available. And I hope they allow 3rd party batts. PEACE.
 
I dont think they could disallow third party batteries... they made it removable for God's sake, so unless they've built it to shock you every time you try to ermove it, thirds are ggonna do as they please.
 
I'm not exactly up to date on battery technology, but does this announcement pretty well guarantee that there's one that'll work with PSP from Sony?
 
Not really, If they decide to be thick headed and not release a pack in the PSP's form factor, then that'll be the end of this. On the sony side at least, there's always gonna be the third party hope
 
Amir0x said:
I'm not exactly up to date on battery technology, but does this announcement pretty well guarantee that there's one that'll work with PSP from Sony?
If this is really industry-leading capacity, I would expect it to either be a $80 spare battery, or a late 2005 item. I'm really interested in what Sony does with the battery tech for the PSP, b/c that's where it's gonna make the gains in play time. It'll hopefully let the devs take full advantage of the system some day. I really want to know though, how the hell do you charge the spare outside the PSP? PEACE.
 
Heh. Well, Kuturagi did say they were working on PSP battery solutions... so I just hope this is an indication that they're going to be hard at work for PSP.
 
Although the increase is trivial, it's still very nice to see that PSP battery life is definitely going improve as time goes on. Hm.
 
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Might this be the solution? :D
 
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