28000mAh smartphone is coming?94 days of ultra-long standby, too fierce!
"XX days of ultra-long standby, once charged for a week......"
With the continuous development of the mobile phone industry, these high-frequency slogans in the era of feature phones have been mentioned less and less, and mobile phone manufacturers rarely use large batteries as the core selling point for publicity.
The change of integrated body design, the improvement of charging technology, and the popularization of basic charging facilities have made people no longer blindly pursue mobile phone battery life. In today's mobile phone industry, the degree of intelligence is what most consumers pay the most attention to.
But there are people who don't believe in evil and never return on the road of exploring mobile phones with large battery capacity. At present, the battery capacity of mainstream smartphones is still stuck in the 3000mAh - 6000mAh stage, and it is reported that Avenir Telecom, after launching a mobile phone with a built-in 18000mAh battery four years ago, will choose to break through again in 2024 and will launch a smartphone with a 28000mAh battery at MWC 2024 in Barcelona.
The Lei Technology MWC reporting team, which has arrived at the scene, has a strong interest in this "alternative" smartphone.
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With anticipation, the MWC reporting group of Lei Technology came to the exhibition area where Avenir Telecom is located non-stop. The results were a big disappointment, and although there were different types of phones on display at the booth, the phone with the 28,000mAh battery did not appear.
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The maximum capacity battery of the mobile phone on display is only 6000mAh, and it has to be said that Avenir Telecom is still too conservative. Xiaolei can't help but worry about whether it will be officially launched in October this year as originally planned.
Although I couldn't get my hands on the 28,000mAh phone, in the next few days at MWC, Avenir Telecom is likely to solemnly release this legendary "battery giant".
The vast majority of friends are as unfamiliar with Avenir Telecom as they are to ask foreigners if they know Chinese mythological figures. In fact, Avenir Telecom is the company that exclusively designs and distributes smartphones, feature phones and mobile accessories for the American battery brand Energizer, and we can see from the brand name "Energizer" that the company has an enigmatic obsession with battery life, and almost every mobile phone has the world's leading battery life.
Compared with the 94-day ultra-long standby, it is worth paying more attention to the charging speed
The same goes for the original Hard Case P28K (hereinafter referred to as "P28K"), with the "28" in the name representing a large 28,000mAh battery. You must know that the capacity of many power banks is only about 10000mAh, and the P28K is equivalent to carrying 3 power banks with you. Endurance anxiety doesn't exist.
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Avenir Telecom claims that the P28K is enough to last a week of regular use on a full charge, and the battery life in standby mode is an exaggerated 2,252 hours, or almost 94 days. To take care of friends who like to talk on the phone, the P28K can have up to 122 hours of continuous talk time, which is about 5 days.
This series of exaggerated figures made Xiao Lei stunned on the spot. In the face of ultra-large battery life, P28K's other configurations don't seem to be particularly important.
In terms of core configuration, the P28K can be regarded as an entry-level smartphone, and the processor is equipped with MediaTek MT6789 (does not support 5G), and the performance is at a relatively entry-level level. The P28K features an 8GB+256GB storage plan, a triple rear camera, and a 6.78-inch 1080p LCD display. On top of that, the phone also has a built-in Android 14 system, which supports up to 33W fast charging and has an IP69 rating.
The P28K is expected to be officially launched in October this year, priced at 249.99 euros (about 1947 yuan), and will be sold worldwide except for the United States, which means that friends with unique tastes in China can also get their hands on it.
But before you start, Xiaolei still has to advise you to be cautious, because the advantages and disadvantages of this phone are equally distinct. The advantages do not need to be talked about, that is, the super large battery that allows users to say goodbye to battery life anxiety completely.
The disadvantages of the P28K are as prominent as the advantages, and in order to stuff this huge 28000mAh battery, the body thickness is epicly strengthened, reaching a staggering 27.8mm and weighing 570 grams.
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Friends who don't often pay attention to smartphones may not have much concept of these two numbers, Xiaolei will give you an example. The Xiaomi Mi 14 Ultra, which was released just two days ago, weighs 220 grams, the iPhone 15 Pro Max weighs 221 grams, and the P28K weighs almost equal to 2.5 Xiaomi 14 Ultras. As for the thickness, you only need to look at the product diagram to understand. Combining the two, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a "cyber brick".
P28K as an unconventional entry-level smartphone, if you have no requirements for performance, have self-defense needs, and want to completely get rid of battery life anxiety and achieve a smooth experience of charging once a week, then Xiaolei thinks you can still get it. As for other friends, let's just watch Xiaolei brag and have fun.
It is worth mentioning that how long it takes for the P28K to be fully charged is still a mystery, and the official did not disclose any information, how long does it take to fully charge the 28000mAh battery with 33W fast charging?
Smartphones consume a lot of power, and users' "battery life anxiety" is becoming more and more severe
Battery life has been the focus of users' attention since the advent of mobile phones. From big brother to feature phones, from clamshell phones to smart phones, the rapid development of the mobile phone industry seems to make people gradually forget the importance of large-capacity batteries, and no longer over-pursue battery life, and mobile phones have become a common thing to charge several times a day.
The main reason is that the diversity and playability of smartphone functions, as well as the screen presentation effect far exceed that of the feature phones of the year, and the energy consumption naturally increases. And in order to meet the user's aesthetic requirements for mobile phone design, manufacturers pursue a thinner and more beautiful body, which puts forward higher requirements for battery technology.
It's like Maslow's hierarchy of needs on the phone, and the battery is a necessity for the phone's survival:
In the early days, when mobile phones were first popularized, there were not many functions, and people pursued the physiological needs of mobile phones - as long as they could be used;
In the era of feature phones, people are pursuing the safety needs of mobile phones - as long as the battery life is long enough;
In the era of smart phones, people are pursuing a higher level of demand for mobile phones - appearance, function, battery life, intelligence, satellite calls and even health and eye protection, etc., "children make choices, adults want all";
In the era of AI mobile phones, people expect mobile phones to understand the real world and meet any needs of users - they can complete any task like a smart housekeeper or a sweet secretary, that is, "omnipotent".
There are a lot of mobile phone energy replenishment solutions on the market. The theory of charging treasure can extend the battery life of the mobile phone indefinitely, but it reduces portability, and it is against human nature to carry trouble when going out, in this context, shared charging treasure appeared, although it is indeed very convenient, but it is not enough "economical", a few days ago, some netizens posted a shared charging treasure "statement", a year alone to rent a charging treasure has spent thousands of yuan, the expenditure is amazing, and the shared charging treasure has the possibility of continuing to increase in price.
Looking at it this way, large battery life and large battery life will be the trend of mobile phone upgrades - the charging problem that once plagued mobile phones with large batteries has also been fundamentally solved, because fast charging technology has advanced rapidly, and mobile phones that support 100W and 200W charging power abound, and Redmi also demonstrated the latest 300W fast charging technology through the magic version of Note 12 Pro+.
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After 5 minutes of charging, the slogan of N hours of talk is a thing of the past, and now it can be fully charged directly after 5 minutes of charging.
Therefore, in the long run, the energy consumption of mobile phones will continue to increase, and in the era of AI mobile phones, today's mobile phone batteries of several thousand mAh may not last for several hours, and the problem of mobile phone battery life is still very serious.
The battery life of the AI phone: faster fast charging, larger battery
From a practical point of view, Avenir Telecom has the confidence to continue to launch a number of high-capacity battery phones, and this behavior itself represents the answer.
Although smartphones have long dominated the mobile phone industry, this does not mean that everyone is looking for the diversity of mobile phone features. Especially the older group, they don't pay attention to how many innovative functions their mobile phones have implemented, and the most used daily functions are still basic functions such as phone calls and text messages.
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Although large-capacity battery mobile phones are not the same as feature phones, the best-selling feature phones in a sense reflect that the demand level for mobile phones by some groups is still in the early stage.
Where there is demand, there will be a market, which is the fundamental reason why Avenir Telecom has always promoted high-capacity battery mobile phones.
In Xiaolei's view, fast charging technology represents the growing demand for the use of mobile phone emerging groups, and heavy mobile phone users use mobile phones for a long time and cannot accept the disadvantages of inconvenient use of mobile phones during the period due to the slow charging speed of mobile phones. At the same time, due to the design of the fuselage, it is difficult for mainstream smartphones to increase the battery capacity while ensuring the thinness and lightness of the fuselage before breaking through the current technical bottleneck.
The large-capacity battery mobile phone represents the stagnant basic use needs of the traditional mobile phone group, and their daily use of the mobile phone is only a handful, and the charging habit of charging once a few days will greatly improve their experience. They don't have much to ask for the fuselage design, as long as it's not too outrageous, they're usually okay with it.
The needs of the two groups support the basic disk of fast charging technology and high-capacity battery mobile phones, respectively, and there is no difference between the two. As long as the traditional group exists, there will be a market for large-capacity battery mobile phones.
In recent years, the frequency of innovation of smart phones has decreased significantly, and mobile phone manufacturers have fallen into a strange circle of volume configuration, volume material, volume image, volume system, volume charging speed, and even volume naming. In 2023, the concept of AI mobile phones such as large-scale mobile phones will also emerge, and new requirements will be put forward for the battery capacity of mobile phones under the filling of various functions and configurations.
Because: the high cost of large model training, in addition to the expensive graphics card, the greater cost lies in the huge energy consumption. The computing to be completed by AI mobile phones is larger and more complex, and AI mobile phones of brands such as OPPO, Honor, and vivo are even equipped with AI chips on the device side. In the transformation of "energy to intelligence", the energy consumption of AI mobile phones will definitely increase dramatically. If an AI phone still claims to be more energy-efficient, it must be a fake AI phone.
Therefore, how to stabilize the battery life while ensuring the use of the effect, has become another problem for mobile phone manufacturers, blindly increasing the charging speed, can only alleviate but can not cure, high-frequency charging will inevitably reduce the user's sense of experience.
At this stage, 5000 - 6000mAh is enough to support users to use the latest features of the phone for a long time. In the future, mobile phones, especially AI mobile phones, will inevitably have higher and higher requirements for battery capacity, and 10,000mAh or even 20,000mAh may be applied to mainstream AI mobile phones.
The battery is getting bigger, and "reverse charging" will become the standard configuration of mobile phones?
Once large-capacity battery mobile phones are popularized, mobile phones will become the new power bank.
As early as 2018, Huawei launched the world's first reverse wireless charging phone, the Mate 20 Pro, which can wirelessly charge other mobile phones or TWS earbuds. Subsequently, other mobile phone manufacturers followed suit, but this function was limited by the battery capacity of the mobile phone and did not become mainstream.
When the mobile phone has a large-capacity battery, the reverse charging function will no longer be limited to charging low-power devices for emergencies, and may develop into a portable power bank.
Of course, the above is purely a beautiful imagination of the future. Only by finding a balance between configuration and battery life can current smartphones be expected to achieve the ideal state of "having both fish and bear's paws".
≠We expect Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo and other leading mobile phone manufacturers to maintain the portability of mobile phones and take into account industrial design considerations at the same time, continue to "expand" the battery, and constantly optimize the battery management technology, so as to provide longer battery life for mobile phones.
From February 26th to February 29th, MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2024 was grandly opened, with new product releases from major technology manufacturers such as Honor, Xiaomi, Huawei, OPPO, OnePlus, Transsion, Nothing, Lenovo, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and China Mobile. In addition, another highlight of this year's MWC is AI hardware, which will collide with new sparks in the accelerated integration of AI with mobile phones, PCs, automobiles, XR, and wearable devices. The MWC 2024 reporting team led by "Zhuang Tianming" and "Dingxi" is tracking and reporting the whole process at the scene, so please pay attention to Lei Technology and look forward to it.