Huawei develops smartphone battery that charges to 48% in 5 minutes

Quick, what's the biggest problem smartphone manufacturers need to overcome today? If you said "battery life," you'll be happy to know that Huawei is making important strides in alleviating that issue

On Friday, the company announced its Watt Lab — a part of Huawei's Central Research Institute — has developed lithium-ion batteries that it claims can be charged 10 times as fast as currently available batteries

In one video demonstrating the technology (below), a smartphone battery is charged to 68% in two minutes, while a smartphone charged with a standard charger only gets 2% of battery life. There's a an important caveat to that test, though: The battery used has a capacity of 600 milliamp-hours (mAh), which is a lot lower than batteries you'll find in today's smartphones Read more...