Devices such as notebooks and mobile phones have become increasingly powerful in their computing capabilities but the source of power has been a “bottleneck”, Bryan Ma, IDC’s director for Asia-Pacific personal systems research, said Friday. Rapid battery exhaustion prevents the devices from performing to their full or designed potential, he explained.
To add to that, fujitsu laptop battery technology has moved “relatively slowly”, he pointed out Friday in a phone interview with ZDNet Asia.
Jim Tully, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, also noted in an e-mail interview that the current generation of lithium-based batteries is not developing as fast as what had been observed previously.
Alternative fujitsu fpcbp80 technologies such as silver-zinc and micro fuel cells, said Tully, are either “prohibitively expensive” or present concerns in terms of availability and stability.
Added IDC’s Ma: “If we assume that battery technology does move a bit more slowly, the other side of that is you can try to optimize what existing fujitsu fpcbp77 battery technology you have today聟whether that means using a SSD (solid-state drive) in a notebook or a less power-consuming screen.”
Vendors such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard have been highlighting products that have exceptional fujitsu fpcbp68 battery life, he noted, but products with ideal battery performance are still “a niche category”, as there are tradeoffs such as price, size and weight. According to Ma, notebooks should ideally last a full business day or more on a single charge.
Still, it is an encouraging sign, he pointed out. “The vendors in the industry all recognize [battery management] as a challenge and they’re making efforts to address that. Eventually, we’ll start to see a lot of that trickle down into the mainstream.”
Moving forward, Gartner’s Tully, said the industry will focus on both battery improvements and energy-efficient device components. Increased energy efficiency, he added will “in particular” be derived from solid-state drives (SSDs), and low fujitsu fpcbp63 , fujitsu fpcbp95 energy displays such as OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology.