Samsung rumored to launch phone with graphene battery next year

Graphene Info ^ | August 19, 2019 | CNet

[2ndDivisionVet]

Samsung may be in the race to develop a graphene-based alternative to lithium-ion batteries for its phones. Rumors are going around claiming that the Company hopes to have at least one phone with a graphene battery ready next year or by 2021.

The word is that these graphene-based batteries will be capable of a full charge in under a half-hour, but they still need to raise capacities while lowering costs. In 2017, Samsung said its researchers developed a "graphene ball" material that enables five times faster charging speeds than standard lithium-ion batteries.

Samsung may be looking into battery alternatives following past problems with its Note 7 phones, when users started reporting overheating problems. Samsung tied the issues to a battery design flaw and recalled all the Note 7 phones on the market. That didn't seem to fix the problem, though, with the replacement devices also overheating. Samsung launched a second recall and stopped manufacturing the Note 7. Following the problems, Samsung changed its testing process for key mobile components and instituted an eight-point inspection process for batteries.

[Old Yeller]

I have graphite in my palm since freshman year in high school. Had a pencil in my back pocket, jumped off the bleachers, and impaled my right hand!

I can beat that story. I had the pencil in my front pocket when I jumped off the bleachers in my freshman year. Impaled my scrotum and I've had a hard on for the last 40 years.

[Erik Latranyi]

Which comes first, graphene batteries or thorium reactors?

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’m sure you beat it regularly.

[EEGator]

Cold fusion via Kevmo’s boy Andrea Rossi...

[neverevergiveup]

Thanks a ton for the tips!

[Preachin']

I have had a piece of pencil lead in my left pinky since June 1978. I got it while running to the school bus on the last day of 7th grade.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Have they finally found a way to mass produce that stuff yet? Its been this matador cape of click bait and hopey dreams for a long time now."

Apparently so. Products using graphene are starting to show up on Amazon.

[eartick]

I got bit by a squirel once.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I don’t care how fast it charges - how long does it take to run down a full charge?

I can charge the dang thing overnight, long as the charge lasts me all day. I’m not one of those that lives on my phone.