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Jason Dunn
12-12-2004, 09:18 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=89048871-9338-4670-a904-48cd19c58de0' target='_blank'>http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=89048871-9338-4670-a904-48cd19c58de0</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Researchers at the University of Alberta are working on technology that may lead to the creation of cellphones that need to be charged just once a year. Dr. Vincent Gaudet, Dr. Christian Schlegel and former graduate students David Nguyen and Dr. Chris Winstead have created an analog chip that uses 100 times less energy to operate than its digital counterparts."</i><br /><br />I've seen too many announcements of "groundbreaking research", and then a decade later it still hasn't made it to market, to take news like this at face value. And it's not like the DSP is the only part of the phone that's using up power - the backlight sucks battery at a significant rate.