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superchunk on 02 March 2012
theprof00 said:
superchunk said:
JesseDeya said:

@superchunk: Give it up mate, no one wants your super awkward thick arse Vita phone that comes with a car charger and solar panels just so you can still make phone calls by 7pm at night.

Like I said, when battery tech is at least 5 times better than it is today I'll buy your Vita Phone.


Actually, there are others in this thread that said they'd buy it and your knowledge of batteries currently in smartphones is on the low side. Vita's current battery exists in phones now as well as larger batteries available in other phones.

Don't forget the new li-ion developments happening in the US. MIT developed a new carbon method that boast 4x the power storage, and this other company has developed a cathode with 3x the storage.

The latter also boasted that the same size battery with their cathode would be 45% cheaper. No word on the cost of the MIT one.


Yuuup. I can't wait to see that tech make it to market. MIT one is a couple years old now. Should be in another year or two max.



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JesseDeya on 12 March 2012
theprof00 said:
JesseDeya said:

@superchunk: Give it up mate, no one wants your super awkward thick arse Vita phone that comes with a car charger and solar panels just so you can still make phone calls by 7pm at night.

Like I said, when battery tech is at least 5 times better than it is today I'll buy your Vita Phone.

Good new for you then:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/envia-claims-breakthrough-in-lithium-ion-battery-cost-and-energy-density/

3 Times the energy density meaning 9 hours for your vita.

And superchunk is right. At the moment there is no reason for someone in the expanded market to buy a vita. Sony needs to sneak their games into the average consumers' hands if they want vita to be successful.

While it's a great system (I'm loving hot shots golf btw), it's not the thing they need to be successful. I'm predicting a phone version sometime next year.

So now I've got to hook this mythical vita phone up to car battery? ;)

Agree to disagree, I think Vita has a large enough place in the market to succeed - time will tell obviously.

Yes, Hot Shots Golf is rad - the more I play the more I love the physics starting to really get a feel for it now.



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