Bright Prospects for iPhone Battery Life, Cost on the Horizon

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A pair of electronics Phd candidates at Ottawa, Ontario’s Carleton University may have invented a process for wirelessly connecting the circuits of a mobile device to its antenna, allowing it to consume 12 times less power than traditional, wired-transmitter modules and lowering the overall cost of any hand-held device, according to a report at OttawaCitizen.com.

Atif Shamim and Muhammad Arsalan, together with their adviser Langis Roy of Carleton’s department of electronics, co-authored a paper describing a packaging technique to connect the antenna with the circuits via a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits on the chip.

Their work was named the best paper at the European Wireless Technology Conference in November, whose judges praised the invention for “excellent integration of system design, material sciences and electromagnetic antenna design.” They also said the innovation is “highly relevant, with large potential for commercialization.”

Shamim has filed patent applications in the U.S. and in Canada, with the knowledge consumers continue to gripe about the short lifespan of the iPhone battery.

“It’s a common problem. There are so many applications in the iPhone, it’s like a power-sucking machine,” said Shamim.

Research on the invention is due to be published in the upcoming edition of Microwave Journal.

Via LowEndMac

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8 responses to “Bright Prospects for iPhone Battery Life, Cost on the Horizon”

  1. Steve says:

    READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE TAKING THIS OUT OF CONTEXT!

    I wonder if the battery savings works for “white males” too…

    “Carleton University cancels Shinerama; says disease only affects “white men”
    http://oncampus.macleans.ca/ed…“white-people”-2/

  2. Andrew says:

    Its Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

  3. lonbud says:

    nice to see copy editors among the CoM readership. thanks.