Battery
Apple has initiated a voluntary recall for their mid-2015 15-inch "Retina" MacBook Pros over a potential safety issue with their integrated batteries. The manufacturer says that some of these batteries can overheat, which poses a safety risk. Apple claims that a limited number of the 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between September 2015 and February 2017 use a battery that pose potential safety risk as they can overheat. Notably, this is the final generation of "Retina" MacBook Pros, and the issue does not affect either earlier (pre-2015) or the later USB-C models. As part of the program, Apple will replace affected batteries free of charge worldwide. Owners of mid-2015 MacBook Pros are, in turn, being asked to visit a special page on Apple’s website to submit their...
Hyper Juice: 99Wh Battery Pack with 100W Charging for ~$400
Even though IFA has passed, one interesting element I still want to highlight is this little gadget that caught my eye. A company called Hyper Juice, which specialises in...
22 by Ian Cutress on 9/13/2018
Lenovo Recalls Some ThinkPad X1 Carbon Laptops Due to Potential Overheating
Lenovo this week has began a voluntarily recall of some of its 5th Generation (Kaby Lake, Intel 7000-series) ThinkPad X1 Carbon notebooks because of an unfastened screw that can...
8 by Anton Shilov on 2/7/2018
HP Recalls 50,000 Laptop Batteries Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
HP has initiated a voluntarily recall of a number of laptop batteries. These batteries are used inside various Envy, ProBook and ZBook notebooks over the past two years due...
7 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2018
Apple’s $29 iPhone Battery Replacement Program Accelerated, Available From Today
Following widespread criticism for reducing SoC frequency because of battery degradation, Apple announced plans to cut down the price of an out-of-warranty battery replacement for the iPhone 6 and...
96 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2017
Samsung’s Reveals Li-Ion Battery with Graphene Balls: Higher Capacity, Faster Charging
Samsung on Tuesday announced that it had developed a way to improve Lithium-Ion batteries with its new material called graphene balls. The company says that batteries featuring the new...
45 by Anton Shilov on 11/29/2017
Panasonic Recalls 280,000 Tablet Battery Packs Due to Fire Hazard
Panasonic this week announced a voluntary recall of batteries due to fire and burn hazards. The battery packs being recalled were used in one of its rugged tablets. In...
30 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2017
Meizu Unveils Super mCharge: Fast Charging At 55W
Meizu unveiled a new fast-charging technology—called Super mCharge—at MWC 2017 that’s capable of fully charging a 3000 mAh battery in just 20 minutes. Rapid charging has grown from novelty...
40 by Matt Humrick on 3/2/2017
HP Recalls Over 100,000 Laptop Batteries Due to Potential Fire and Burn Hazards
HP has expanded its voluntary recall of batteries due to fire and burn hazards. The batteries were used for various laptops sold under the HP and Compaq brands between...
19 by Anton Shilov on 1/26/2017
Samsung Reveals Root Cause of Galaxy Note7 Battery Fires
Samsung held a press conference today detailing the results of its investigation into the battery fires that plagued its Galaxy Note7. Reports of phones catching fire appeared soon after...
91 by Matt Humrick on 1/23/2017
The CUBOT H1 Smartphone Test: A Month with 3-4 Days of Battery per Charge
The last time I fully road tested a smartphone, I was moving from a rather decrepit Samsung Galaxy S2 to the 'glorious' 6-inch HTC One max, at a time...
116 by Ian Cutress on 12/23/2015
Browser Face-Off: Chrome 37 Beta Battery Life Revisited
Last week we posted our Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014, where the battery run down times of Firefox 31, IE11 Desktop, IE11 Modern, Chrome 36, and Chrome 37...
22 by Stephen Barrett on 8/18/2014
Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014
It has been five years since we did a benchmark of the various web browsers and their effect on battery life, and a lot has changed. Our testing then...
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Windows 8.1 Battery Life Investigation: 1080p Video Playback
A couple weeks back, I posted a short article on battery life with Windows 8.1 looking at whether or not it had changed compared to Windows 8. The short...
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Sony VAIO Pro 13 Battery Life with Windows 8.1: Largely Unchanged
Last week I finished up the review of the Sony VAIO Pro 13, which delivers excellent battery life compared to most other laptops that we’ve tested – granted, it’s...
34 by Jarred Walton on 10/21/2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 ZeroLemon 7500 mAh Extended Battery Review
One of the chief differentiators with the Samsung Galaxy S 4 versus other current flagship Android devices is the continued support for user-replaceable batteries. Although removable batteries are becoming...
75 by Brian Klug on 7/23/2013
Mophie Juice Pack Helium for iPhone 5 Review
Lately I have found myself doing a case review here and there, and battery cases are particularly interesting since they're easy enough for us to test and integrate into...
11 by Brian Klug on 5/1/2013
A Comment on PC Gaming Battery Life
During the process of writing the Razer Edge review, I spent a lot of my time gaming on battery. The Edge is marketed as being a mobile PC gaming...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 3/30/2013
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