According to a story on Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, those crazy peeps in China have made a new phone called the ZJ268, that has a rather unique feature not seen on any other mobile phones.
Nope. Not the camera. Or the music player. Nope, nothing like that. What’s unique is the battery life.
Or, to put it another way, “Yipes, they’ve made a phone with a battery life of 2 YEARS!!”
Well… I say two years, but the actual figure is funnier… 666 days. Is this the sign of the coming Apocalypse? Is it the sign that the Book Of Revelations was right? Well, no, obviously not, but it’s still funny.
So, how does it achieve this amazing feat? Well, it’s all down to battery size. Y’see, your average mobile phone has a battery life in the region of 1000mAh (which is what you measure battery life in, for anyone who wasn’t sure). Take my Sony Ericsson P1, for example. 1120mAh is the battery size, so I get about 5-6 days. The ZJ268 neatly stuffs every other mobile phone on the market by having a whopping great 32,800mAh. Which is just vast!
Other than that, though it’s pretty standard fare. I’ll be honest, it’s not a phone I’d buy, part of the reason being:
Imagine how long you’d have to charge the damn thing for!
(image source: solomobi.com)
Leave us a comment and have your say.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
666 days, I forget to charge my phone all the time but who the hell would forget to charge the phone for that long? Its crazy. I agree with you Mark imagine how long it would take to charge. Is there a bonus to it that because you don’t have to charge very often that it lowers the carbon foot print?
November 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
[...] we’ve seen mobile phones with stupidly long battery lives before, with the ZJ268 Chinese thing, which had a battery that could nearly hit 2 years. But that was done by putting a HUGE battery [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
i guess we got used to 2-5 y battery life in watches, why not in mobiles …
what they are doing with that power on-the-standby anyway, reporting our location to CIA ?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 am
If we were to charge the battery, I guess it will take up to 2 years as well.