Earlier this week, Intelligent Energy (IE), announced “its engagement with a significant number of parties across the full Consumer Electronics (CE) spectrum in relation to its embedded fuel cell technology, has, today, resulted in an agreement with an emerging smartphone OEM to create a tailored development and integration programme for a specific smartphone application”. The company said it was working on developing “a new type of battery that can be used as part of a mobile phone or tablet device without requiring any additional power source” – which is expected to According to IE: “We believe embedding fuel cell technology into portable devices provides a solution to the current dilemma of battery life. We already have working prototypes so we are delighted to move to the next stage of development and look forward to further relationships of this type as OEMs show increasing interest in our capabilities.”
Earlier this week, Intelligent Energy (IE), announced “its engagement with a significant number of parties across the full Consumer Electronics (CE) spectrum in relation to its embedded fuel cell technology, has, today, resulted in an agreement with an emerging smartphone OEM to create a tailored development and integration programme for a specific smartphone application”. The aim of the agreement is to build on IE’s existing smartphone technology combined with an embedded fuel cell in the hope of licensing the technology. According to IE: “We believe embedding fuel cell technology into portable devices provides a solution to the current dilemma of battery life. We already have working prototypes so we are delighted to move to the next stage of development and look forward to further relationships of this type as OEMs show increasing interest in our capabilities.”