When he returned with my coffee, I got my answer in the form of a mobile battery pack with an Android charger attached.
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The electricity would charge the batteries of devices like lanterns, fans, televisions, mobile battery packs, and even scooters, and these products would be provided to a franchisee who would rent them to customers in the community.
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It comes with a miniature aerial (MCX), a rod aerial with magnetic base and removable suction cup, a printed Quick Start Guide, and a USB charging cable (intended for use with the EyeTV Mobile battery, not designed to charge an iPad).
Chip optimization will be particularly critical on mobile, where battery limitations will push against the requirements of real-time video.
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What we didn't know is that the folks at OUYA are working directly with a team of folks at NVIDIA on the project, and that NVIDIA is helping the company to max out its Tegra 3 processor for use on a console rather than a mobile (no battery dependency means the little chip can go much further than usual).
The RCA 8-inch Mobile TV Tablet has a battery life up to four hours in mobile TV mode, or up to 10 hours when web browsing.
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The company reckons the new transistors, which should be available later this year, will consume half as much power as its existing offerings, making them particularly suitable for mobile computing, where battery life is an important selling point.
This helps cut back the power consumption to achieve longer battery life for mobile displays.
Hitomi Murakami, of KDDI, says battery-operated mobile phones cannot keep up with the new applications.
Incorporating 72 custom NVIDIA GeForce GPU cores and the first quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, Tegra 4 delivers record-level performance, outstanding graphics, and great battery life to mobile devices.
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The Dell XPS 10 embodies the intersection between work and play with intuitive touch capability, long battery life and mobile keyboard dock for enhanced content creation and business productivity.
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If hundreds of files are required to build a web page across dozens of domains, Silk can request all of this content simultaneously with EC2, without overwhelming the mobile device processor or impacting battery life.
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Designed to give you surprisingly big sound in a portable package, the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox includes a rechargeable battery that delivers up to 10 hours of music, depending on use, settings and conditions, and can even double as a speakerphone for voice or video calls.
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Last month, research showed that free mobile apps were also overly draining battery power.
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"Attempts have been made to ring the mobile but we believe that the battery is dead or the credits have run out, " said a police spokesperson.
Anyone who's had to recharge an EV -- or, for that matter, any mobile device with a very big battery -- knows the pain of waiting for hours while a lithium-ion pack tops up.
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This new powerful smartphone will also feature a 1, 730mAh lithium ion battery to support the robust mobile experience on one of the fastest 4G LTE networks.
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Select S Series models sport a premium and elegant design in Black or White with magnesium and aluminum materials, and all of them incorporate a built-in lithium polymer battery that when coupled with the all new and advanced large-capacity optional sheet battery, you can stay mobile and unplugged for up to 15 hours.
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Based on Samsung's BSI low power process technology, the S5K3H2 is able to operate on 1.2 voltage levels enabling longer battery life for high-end mobile and smartphones.
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"At the big consumer electronics retailers, you tend to see batteries, memory cards for a camera or mobile phone, cables and connectors, adapters, battery chargers and headphones, " he says.
It's not about the watch form factor, but creating a wearable mobile device that takes advantage of advances in mobile computing technology such as cheap sensors, better battery life and improved voice recognition.
His mobile phone number is printed on the back of the battery pack and he prides himself on customer service.
In addition, the new Bluetooth technology uses less energy, so it will lengthen battery life on both the CORE 2 and mobile devices.
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Receiver chips must be energy-efficient to preserve battery life--an important consideration in any mobile device.
However, Raring Ringtail is set to flesh out the mobile experience with an emphasis on sensors, memory footprint and battery life, among other features.
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Why on the list: arm is the main designer of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips used in such battery-powered information appliances as handlheld PCs and mobile phones.
For months now we've been hearing about an initiative codenamed Banias, which is aimed at producing chips for mobile PCs that consume less power, run cooler and prolong battery life.
Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
Transmeta has produced a chip for mobile computers known as Crusoe that is designed to use far less battery power than its Intel equivalent.
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