Will Sanyo revolutionize the way we use batteries on electronic devices ? Today, by chance I found a place selling Eneloop batteries and bought few packs. 

Eneloop are Ni-MH rechargeable batteries… nothing very new till here.

The difference ? They are sold fully charged so you can buy and use them immediately.

Then once the power is gone, instead of throwing them away returning them to your preferred shop for recycling, you can simply recharge them as any Ni-MH or Cad-Ni rechargeable batteries.

En Resumé : eneloop is a combination of a rechargeable and a disposable battery.

• Ready for immediate use
• Low self-discharge
• environment friendly
• universal applications (actually available in AA & AAA size)
• higher performances (up to 4 times more powerful than Alkaline batteries)
• Recyclable package

Technical specs :

AA   : 2000 mAh (min. 1900 mAh)
AAA : 800 mAh (min. 750 mAh) 
Charging cycles : 1000
Price : 500 THB (14.25 USD for 4)
Storage Energy loss : after 6 month 10%, after a year 15%
Charging time : depending on the charger. Sanyo says 250 mins for 2 AA batteries

 

So now it's testing time, but I already like the idea of having batteries that offer advantages of both disposable and rechargeable ones.

Source : Sanyo 

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Today, following Steve Jobs presentation during Mac World 2007, all technical blogs were speaking about the long expected Apple iPhone.

Will this iPhone be so different than all others ?

Will Apple have a similar success like with iPods ?

Will it be THE new must to have gimick ?

A Quick Overview 

• 3.5 inches, 480×320 display
• Input method : multi-touch
• OS : Mac OS X "slim version"
• Storage 4 or 8 GB
• WAN : Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Wifi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
• Built-in camera 2.0 mega pixel
• Size : 115 x 61 x 11.6mm / Weight 135 grs
• Battery :Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing - Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Pros:

• All-in-One Ipod-Camera-Phone
• Wide 3.5'' screen
• Using fingers on screen instead of stylus is rather a good idea
• Great design… as usual
• Safari browser + widgets
• Rich text email client
• Predictive input keyboard
• Hard Disk 4 or 8 GB
• Automatic display configuration change (portrait to landscape)
• Video Player
  

Cons

• Not a smartphone, impossible to add software
• No memory extension slot 
• Impossible to remove the battery (with so few autonomy is pity)
• Not UMTS nor HSPDA
• Price (499 or 599 USD for 2 year contract with the mobile network operator - USA)
• No wireless (wifi nor GPRS/EDGE) iTunes Store downloads 
• No WiFi syncing to your host machine.
• No tactile feedback when strocking keyboard 
• No MS Office, MS Exchange,  Lotus Domino support
• Only available in 2007 Q3 in USA &  2008 in Europe & Asia.

Some links that speaks about the iPhone:

• Ubergizmo
• Le Blog Gadget
• Engadget + Keynote
• Presse-Citron
• Daily Tech

Some report from guys who could briefly play with it:

• Brian Lam Gizmodo
• David Pogue New York Times

Mac World 2007 Keynote and full technical specs

Latest News
CBS News iPhone demo via Presse-Citron 

Now let's wait until the moment we will be able to play with a real one… and see if Steve Jobs was right or not when he said "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone".

 

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