re: Stanford Gets the Win: New Aluminium High Performance Battery

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I hope you all dont think the we will be allowed to have a phone with a battery that lasts forever and basically does everything it should do.

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Who said anything about lasting forever?

I said the life of the device. For a smart phone, you're probably looking at 3 years or so. For a tablet or laptop, 5-6.

As I said, Apple's already making the battery pretty much an integrated part of the device. They're not user-replaceable. If they can go to a better, cheaper, and lighter technology they'll do it in a heartbeat and further increase their profit margin by charging you more up front for something that costs them less to purchase and support.