StoreDot Super Battery Will Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds

 

StoreDot, an Israeli tech startup, unveiled a prototype that can charge your smartphone battery in 30 seconds. The company hopes to start producing consumer-ready chargers in late 2016.

 

StoreDot uses biological semiconductors to store and deliver power in batteries far more quickly than current systems. The company has been constructing semiconductors built from peptides, which are organic amino acids that, when linked together, create proteins. Peptides have become popular among body-builders because of their protein creation and have been found to have a wide range of applications.

 

Demonstrated for the first time at Microsoft's Think Next symposium on Monday, the battery prototype only works for now with Samsung's last-gen handset. But StoreDot says that its technology will work with other phones, too.

 

       

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How to Choose the Right Smartphone, Part 4: Final Considerations

 

 

Having pointed out the pros and cons of the different phone operating systems, here are some other important considerations when shopping for a smartphone:

 

Display Quality

 

Stay away from phones with screen resolutions lower than 1920 x 1080 pixels (1080p).

 

Processor

 

The fastest performance is offered by the Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor for Android and Windows Phones and by the Apple's 64-bit A7 chip.

 

RAM

 

Choose devices with 2GB or more.

 

Internal Storage

 

Go for as much internal storage as possible. We suggest 32GB, and expandable memory via a microSD Card is highly recommended.

 

Camera
 

If possible, try the camera out in the store to verify the image quality of the phone. The number of megapixels is not always a reliable indicator.

 

Battery Life

Aim for phones with battery capacity of 3,000 mAh (milliamp hours) or more.

 

Read more about How to Choose the Right Smartphone here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

 

 

 

 

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How to Choose the Right Smartphone, Part 1: BlackBerry and Windows Phone

 

 

Choosing the right smartphone is a big deal, and it’s not completely a matter of price alone. There are some other details that are important, e.g., the quality of the library of apps, movie/music stores, cloud services like calendar syncing, the design, the screen size, and the flexibility of the (OS) Operating System itself.
 

There are now four major operating systems that you can find on recent smartphones: Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 OS. I will start today with the less-popular but nevertheless excellent BlackBerry 10 and Windows phone Operating Systems.

 

BlackBerry 10 Phone

 

BlackBerry 10 phones are Z10, Z30, Q5 and Q10. Currently, BlackBerry offers the best touch keyboard on the market, and the phones are definitely easy to work with. Bluetooth communication and transfer between non-BB and BB phones are quite simple. Files, videos and audios can be uncomplicatedly exchanged. One more big + is that BB10 devices are so far not exposed to spying and virus attacks.

 

On the downside, BB10 phones offer a limited amount of apps compared to Android phones and Apple’s iOS. Moreover, the newer BB10 devices aren't so handy when we talk about the size, and size does matter sometimes.

 

 

 

Windows Phone OS

 

Microsoft's Windows Phone platform has only just recently received more attention thanks largely to Nokia’s Lumia phones.  Its dynamic interface with Live Tiles is easy to resize and rearrange. Other advantages are fast and easy access to Xbox games, video and music, as well as Office and Outlook integration. Furthermore, Windows phones generally have great build quality (Nokia), good screens, and advanced cameras. Speaking of advanced cameras, I have to mention the Nokia Windows Phone Lumia 1020, that has the most advanced camera on the market.

 

Actually, in my opinion,  the only disadvantage of Microsoft’s Windows Phone is that their App Store is far behind,  just like BlackBerry phones, when compared to iOS or Android, but it’s a huge handicap when you consider that a smartphone is generally as powerful as the number of applications it has.

 

Read more about How to Choose the Right Smartphone here: Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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