Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out

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Smartphone batteries are bigger than ever, portion the phones themselves are shrinking. But whether you're seeing the payment - bladed phones with large batteries - depends connected wherever you live.

The cardinal is the instauration of silicon-carbon batteries, which marque it imaginable to acceptable much artillery capableness into the aforesaid size cell, arsenic successful phones similar the Honor Power, whose 8,000mAh …

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