I was just reading about how it takes only 20 mW to keep a cell phone in standby indefinitely and 50 mW to get a good charge out of it. A lot of people are doing the "math" online and say it's impossible but they're not the ones working on this technology therefore they're no experts on the subject.
Back in June Nokia claimed they could get a 5mW charge in a similar manner. It's not too hard to believe that the technology has been improved to the point where at least 20 mW is feasible which is good enough for me since 90% (at least) of the time my phone is in standby anyway.
Now let's say that only 20 mW will be possible using this technique well here's some math for you all out there. 1 minute of talk time equals 12.5 minutes in standby time (remember that). If you use 200 minutes a month (you may have more each month but studies show most people under use their minutes) that only equals 6.66 minutes a day. Let's round that up to 7 (why? because it makes the math easier lol). Seven minutes of talk time equals 175 minutes of standby or 2.92 hours. Let's round that up again to 3. You with me so far?
Now let's say you charge your phone once every two days (When it drains completely). All this means is that for every 14 minutes of talk time, you charge your phone for 42 hours of standby time. Now with a 20 mW charge we eliminate the need to charge your phone for all that time in standby.
Easy to understand right? Let's do some more math. 42 hours multiplied by 60 is 2520 minutes. Divide that by 12.5 to get talk time instead of wasted standby time and you have 201.6 minutes! That's a whole month of minutes! I doubt you'd talk more just because you got more battery life so when it's all added up you'd only need to wall charge your phone only once a month!
I hope you got all that since i have an easier time understanding math than explaining it sometimes. Also I haven't done any sort of heavy math in like 5 years so my numbers could be wrong. It's up to you to prove or disprove my numbers yourself if you don't feel they add up.
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