No matter what smartphone you own, chances are its run out of juice at least once sometime when you needed it. There are tons of backup battery options out there to help you keep your phone powered up for the long haul, but with so many options it can be difficult to determine which one might be right for you. To help make that decision a little easier I'll be checking out some of the...
No matter what smartphone you own, chances are its run out of juice at least once sometime when you needed it. There are tons of backup battery options out there to help you keep your phone powered up for the long haul, but with so many options it can be difficult to determine which one might be right for you. To help make that decision a little easier I'll be checking out some of the...
No matter what smartphone you own, chances are its run out of juice at least once sometime when you needed it. There are tons of backup battery options out there to help you keep your phone powered up for the long haul, but with so many options it can be difficult to determine which one might be right for you. To help make that decision a little easier I’ll be checking out some of the...
Despite its cutthroat nature, the mobile device market can be quite predictable in terms of innovation, which is mostly restricted to just a handful of areas. What’s more, most of the innovation that we see is evolutionary. But to quote late Apple founder Steve Jobs, “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” That’s exactly the kind of...
4G has been one of this year’s hottest buzzwords, and with the availability of LTE becoming more and more common, consumers are beginning to wonder why they haven’t upgraded to a phone capable of such download speeds. Faster is better, right? If it were a case of simple addition, then that might be the case. However, consumers may not realize the compromises that are being made in...
Panasonic announced today that it will supply enough automotive grade lithium-ion cells to furnish 80,000 Tesla Model S electric sedans. In 2009 Panasonic entered a supply agreement with Tesla, prompting a $30 million investment by the “world’s leading battery cell manufacturer” in 2010. Now we have a figure on how many Tesla Model S vehicles will be running Panasonic batteries, and it’...
Electric vehicle technology is nothing new. The earliest carriage manufacturers began toiling with battery-powered cars around the 1830s and in 1899 the Belgium-built "La Jamais Contente" set the land speed world record at 66MPH. But two years prior to that in 1897, the first commercial fleet of EV vehicles were represented as New York City taxis. Back then, drivers had three different...
It’s looking like it will be a long weekend for our friends, readers and staff that live on the East cost of the United States. Currently four TechnoBuffalo writers – Adriana, Emily, Joey and Mike – are all in the path of the coming storm, so it only seems appropriate that a tech blog hands out some advice on how to make sure you can communicate should the storm start to take out power...
Who doesn't know the agony of having a phone, laptop or tablet die at a critical moment? Given how charging up at a public outlet might be verboten now, I'm eyeing battery technology like never before. Seriously — we can do so much with our devices, and still our utility is shackled by an average three-to-five-hour window of opportunity? While this may take care of short outings, when...
Last week I received word from one of my favorite accessory companies stating that they will no longer be selling a popular accessory as of November 2, 2010. Hypermac stated that they will no longer be selling their Macbook charging cables that have implemented the MagSafe technology, yet they will continue to sell their backup batteries. The problem lies in this, there is no way to...