Cell Phone Battery
Early cell phones were very heavy and bulky devices, mainly
due to the batteries that were available at the time. The amount of
power these phones required necessitated a large cell phone battery,
and even then the talk time was extremely limited. By the 1990’s,
advances in cellular technology as well as battery technology resulted
in a much smaller phone.
Digital computer chips and a smaller cell phone battery are what made
the cellular phone a much more plausible idea for mass use by the population.
Reducing the size of the phone from what was lovingly called “the
brick” to a lightweight phone that was small enough to fit in
your pocket created a huge boom in the market. These second generation
phones (2G) made the cellular communications industry the powerhouse
that it is today.
Cell phone battery technology continues to improve in order to meet
the demands of tomorrow’s mobile phones. Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer
batteries are already being used in many third generation phones (3G)
and are proving able to hold a charge for a much longer period of time
than the batteries of just a few years ago. This trend will undoubtedly
continue as cell phones become more technologically advanced.