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DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005
prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo plans to use fuel cells for its 3G phones. 'Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery', says Reuters."
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Will that fuel also be compatible with the user? For internal use that is... ;-)
thats really disturbing
..just another way my cell-phone company can rape my wallet. propietary fuel cells....yay
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Hmmmm. I am kinda of taken back at the thought of carrying a can of flammable (I assume) stuff to recharge my phone?
How may days / hours do I get on a "can"?
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That's all those filthy Nipponese like. That and shitting on people. I tell you, the sex crimes of the Japanese are much worse than even the Germans.
Their new product?
Batteries shapped like Zippo lighters.
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Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery.
A propane tank with a shoulder strap and you're good to go for 10 years.
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DoCoMo to launch fuel cell-run handsets by 2005
.N225 , which rose 1.16 percent.
Thu June 5, 2003 06:07 AM ET
TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - NTT DoCoMo Inc 9437.T said on Thursday it expects to launch a mobile phone powered by a fuel-cell battery for extended hours of use as early as 2004, a potential boost for its high-speed third-generation (3G) service.
DoCoMo's 3G service, which offers video conferencing and speedy access to the Web, had until recently met a cool reception due mainly to the poor battery life of its handsets.
User growth of the 3G service has picked up pace since DoCoMo, Japan's top cellphone operator, launched new handsets with longer battery life earlier this year.
But the battery duration of those new models is still substantially shorter than the topline 2G models.
"If everything goes smoothly, we will see the first model next year or the year after that," NTT DoCoMo President Keiji Tachikawa told a news conference.
Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery.
Tachikawa said its 3G subscribers totalled about 480,000 as of Wednesday, up from 421,000 users at the end of April.
DoCoMo aims to win a total 1.46 million 3G subscribers by the end of the current business year to March 2004.
Japanese mobile phone operators have high hopes that the advanced 3G service will become the next growth driver as the conventional mobile phone market nears saturation.
Tachikawa said basic functionality of 3G phones is expected to catch up with that of the 2G models next year.
He also said, however, the company has no intention of shifting all its subscribers to the 3G service, called FOMA, from its PDC operation, Japan's dominant 2G format, in the near future.
"We have 40 million PDC users. Demand for that service is still bigger than that for FOMA," Tachikawa said. "PDC and FOMA will co-exist in the next 10 years or so." DoCoMo said separately that technical glitches had affected its first megapixel phones, made by a joint venture between Sony Corp 6758.T and Sweden's Ericsson ERICb.ST , marring the debut of a new photo-phone model with the world's highest resolution.
DoCoMo, which sold about 40,000 units of the camera-phone on the day of its launch on Wednesday, said e-mail software on the model, which has a resolution of 1.3 million pixels, could freeze up when a message is typed, under certain conditions.
The company said the problem could be solved by a software upgrade and that it did not plan to carry out a recall.
Shares in DoCoMo closed down 0.38 percent at 265,000 yen, underperforming the Nikkei average
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I wonder what the enviromentalists/christians will say...
What would Jesus use to power his cell phone?
Yes, i know its a contradiction but they did come up with the what would jesus drive aimed at SUVS...
This is entirely motivated by hype and the desire to use a buzzword.
Isn't it far easier and cheaper to just to plug the phone in occasionally and carry a spare battery if you have to?
Energy storage in fuel cells is actually quite expensive, especially compared to electricity. The main advantage is far longer battery life. But for phones, which last for days anyway, why?
Hook the fuel cell to your car gas tank and you can talk forever.
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So now my cell phone will cause more than noise pollution?
Methane two or three inches away from my nose. Another brilliant idea from DoCoMo.
Good luck taking your new phone on a plane trip...
With a phone the size of a Quarter, I shudder to think how hard it'll be to handle the ripcord on a fuel powered phone...
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I would assume they meen the refill is the size and shape of a cigarette lighter, which would be nice that way you can cary them every ware, even planes (do airlines even let you carry lighters on planes anymore or did that stop with the whole 9/11 crap) would make a good emergancy phone for when you dont have access to a plugin to recharge
I had an accident with my bicycle the other day : I landed on my trusted Alcatel cell phone and it splintered into a million pieces. I hate to think what would have happened if the phone contained flamable liquid or gas under pressure.
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Then again, I also landed on $.50 my gas lighter, which was in the same pocket as my busted phone : *it* decided against breaking apart and cracked one of my ribs instead. So I guess the fuel cell phone has a chance to be safe, but still
Also, doesn't such a device emit CO2 and/or water in the process of generating electricity ? where do the exausts go ?
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The article here did not give very much technical information. What type of fuel cell is being used? Hydrogen? If so, what do they plan to do with the water created? Batteries in cell phones are nice because they don't create any waste products when used. I don't see how a cell phone would be able to use a fuel cell without it being very bulky - it would have to have space for the water, and space for the hydrogen. Furthermore, the user would have to remember to empty it.
...people holding up their cell phones at rock concerts?
Everyone who's asking about the potential battery life/ polution from/ etc the fuel cells might like to read this article in scientific american. It's pretty old but gives a fair idea of what the technology involves. And heres a couple more.
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Basically they have the potential for much longer battery life (magnitudes greater than lithium) and produce water and C02 as waste products. and cheap vodka could potentially be used for the fuel
Oh this is mad - fuel cells are a wonderful idea - but to have to have refills?! Oh please - can the lot of them and send the guys back to the research lab until they can make them rechargeable.
"Methane two or three inches away from my nose. Another brilliant idea from DoCoMo."
**taps shoulder**
Uh, chief. That's not a cellphone.
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That's just great! Now when I honk and politely wave (the international hand sign for "your # 1" of course) at the soccer Mom driving 40 mph on the freeway in front of me whilst applying her make-up and talking on her cell phone, she'll be able to immediately retalliate by tossing her handy fuel cell communication grenade at me through the sun roof on her 5 mpg SUV!
What's next? Kids running around with self pumping Super Soakers powered by napalm!!?!?
I tried to control myself...I swear!
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Fuel cells are just electrochemical cells that produce energy by a reaction between a fuel and an oxidant -- e.g. liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen -- it's converted continuously and directly into electrical energy. ... but for a cell phone? I wonder what they're using for the reaction.
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Also I have known them pack up in a long meeting.
Whilst you have to basicaly be plugged in all the time you use them they are not that mobile a solution.
I had been hoping that freeplay, who make the wind up radios would lauch something after an article I read some time ago where a laptop solution was hinted at. However nothing has come to market. Interestingly they have a mobile charger.
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which is probably what you would go in for, too :)
"Obviously the exhaust will go into the safest place possible, in this case the user's pants. :)"
Why not? Nothing else does.
Except for wet pockets, this sounds pretty cool. I know I'm not the only one who has too many chargers... Ugh. Now if they could make a fuel cell that I could plug in any device into... That'd be cool. Forget searching for the ONE outlet in a whole airside.
I think some people think the idea of refueling is a bit arcane sounding, but the point of fuel cells is the higher energy density and the somewhat increased flexibility we have in creating new technologies to exploit the form of the energy. Batteries haven't improved by much in many many years of research.
According to FuelCellWorks, the DoCoMo phone will have up to 300 hrs functioning time. This is an improvement on my current cell phone, which lasts about a week. Furthermore, the use of little canisters for refueling is pretty much like carrying around a spare battery. It gets around the recharge problem. If I'm in a rush, I don't want to have to stick my phone into the power socket for half an hour.
At some point, I think we won't need to refuel. DoCoMo or someone else can make a device that will use electricity to regenerate from the fuel cell waste products back into fuel. Highly inefficient, but convenient when you run out of your little canisters
To kill people who use cell phones in their car.. wait a minute. Maybe this is good.
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2003-06-06 18:10:12 DoCoMo to launch fuel cell-run handsets by 2005 (articles,handhelds) (rejected)
So it wasn't news yesteday but it is today?
On a related note (gee-wizz tech that has drawbacks), those new PDA's and cell phones with builtin cameras: you can't take those into secure or otherwise classified facilities. Something to think about if your travels take you thither.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
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...fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container...
"Hey buddy, can I bum a charge?"
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Fuel Cell Powered Laptops...
What premium would you pay for a Laptop or PDA you can recharge in a snap ?
So, in addition to MP3 players, FM radios, digital cameras, and voice recorders, phones will now also have lighters?
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>How may days / hours do I get on a "can"?
I don't know, but it increases the more Mexican food you eat.
Running water is here to stay, fossil fuels are not. To be honest I didn't read the article but unless it's a hydrogen powered cell I can't really see this being a logical step forward over enviromentally "free" energies like what hydro-electric dams produce.
Cause you know, folks, with all these hybrid cars coming out, we NEED to keep our oil companies rich, I mean, What did we go to war for? The 200 and some soldiers that died whilst invading Iraq cannot die in vain! We must put an end to this silly rechargable and renewable energy "fad" now before profit margins slip any further! All you good americans will now use the fuel cells thanks to those ingenutive asians. By excutive order 200,187 I command that all Americans (I use Americans loosely, because real Americans wouldn't buy rechargable batteries anyway) begin to use these cell phone fuel cells immediately!!!
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Well, most carpenters and handymen I know of are too poor for that, and certainly the Carpenter of Nazareth would be similarly tapped out. Most have aging light trucks or panel vans. What would Jesus drive? Probably something like this. (No, I don't think Mike Watt is God, but I think they jam together on occasion.)
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Fuel cells produce CO2 and H2O. This is fine for cars which already leak out all kinds of nasty chemicals. But I don't think cell phones will sell well if they start peeing the user.
I don't think reuters is going to get slashdotted.
this one has some talent in him. or i have some stupid in me.
My 6310i does _18_ days on one battery - and spare batteries are £18 ($25 or so?).
I assume this is for people who, unlike me, don't use their phones only for data calls, and can't carry a spare battery in their laptop case or with their PDA.
Ah well, new gadgets are always good, and I'd love to get more than 3 hours out of my laptop as well - I'm sure I can hook something up to feed one off the other.
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I know that there's no combustion involved, but the reaction that takes place certainly evolves some heat. I think even the water released is in its gaseous form. The question is, how hot will the fuel cell get under normal use?
I know thatI wouldn't like something scalding in my pocket.
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... your phone doesn't pass emissions tests?
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Instead of carrying around an ultra-expensive fuel cell outfit, try this instead:
1) Get a small AA or AAA battery pack with the same voltage rating and power connector as your phone
2) Fill it with Titanium-Alkaline or Lithium photo cells (very high-capacity compared to recharables)
3) Keep this on hand for backup power just like you would the tech-fetishist hydrogen tank. If after 6-36 months you run low on backup power, just buy more batteries at any nearby store that sells cameras, etc. If you noramlly keep your internal battery charged, then the external cells could last you for years!
Savvy people have done this with camcorders, phones , PDAs and even laptops for years. You can even get AA/AAA packs shaped like the mfg.'s rechargable units that fit right onto your device.
YES!
Now instead of being able to plug in my cell phone and recharge it for FREE, I can now PAY for a fuel cell recharge! WOO HOO!
And instead of the power being conviently in any place where there's an outlet I now get to worry about finding places to BUY fuel cell refills and making sure I have ENOUGH ON HAND at any given time so I'm not ASS OUT OF LUCK!
I'm so glad these fuel cell companies have relieved me of the misery of plugging my phone in every other day. I mean that was SOOOO hard. And its not like buying just one spare battery was easy or anything. Scrounging around for places that SELL fuel cell refills is a much more convienent thing to do in the middle of the night after you've been on the phone for a long period of time and the charge runs down. Phew.
So lets just review for those who may not have gotten it yet.
Instead of recharging my phone at home for FREE, I now get to PAY!
Instead of being able to recharge my phone in my car for FREE, I now get to PAY!
Instead of having the convienence of power at any outlet or carrying an extra battery for those RARE times the average human is away from an outlet for extended periods of time, I get to SCROUNGE FOR FUEL CELL REFILLS!
Lastly, instead of buying an extra charger for the workplace to recharge my phone for FREE, I get to PAY for fuel cell refills!
WOO HOO! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Now THIS is a business plan. Someone ought to make sure that THIS kind of business thinking is taught to all those dot.com rejects who came up with those HORRIBLY STUPID business plans that had NO HOPE OF MAKING ANY MONEY CAUSE THEY WERE STUPID!
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The big main benefit of fuel cells (especially in devices like phones/pdas/laptops or there are the same thing anymore) are two, and an obvious two:
Your %^&*ing batteries don't wear out and have to be replaced, frequently at a cost of more than something new, meaning some landfill waste, and the dead batteries themselves are mucho icky. This also means the devices have a much longer practical use lifespan,so they won't be replaced as often, which will force manufacturers to emphasize quality & reliability & easy internal upgradeability over blinkenlights & bloat-auge & casual tossability
FAST "recharge" time. FAST as in not hours or even minutes, but in under a minute tops to full power
ALSO, this makes the concept of fuel cells get to joe consumer, that it's viable. For instance, it is trivially easy and cheap to make your own fuel at home, ethanol or methane for example, either of which are quite clean fuels. This causes mindshare, the experimental mindset, acceptance of new technologies, more R&D leading to larger scale, more decentralised power (read, kill the monopolies) and so on and so forth.
downsides are....ummm....hmmm..... precious metals used for catalysts go up in value? Nice investment opportunity there...
....I'd like to report a fire...yes, it's my cellphone....please come quick.... *HAND BURNING*....quick, I said!!!!!.... *DIALTONE* ;-)
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is a Soviet made nuclear reactor for my cell-phone. I dont care if I had have a truck for the battery, I would still own. "I'm sorry our conversion was interrupted, but I had a nuclear melt-down". It would sure beat whining about my Nokia having a stand-by time of 5 hours after one year of using it. Just get some nice uranium and keep the cellie on for 150.000 years.
You do know that a whole bunh of batteries we have on the market are a lot more dangerous to the environment compared to say, ethanol, or something else for the means of getting energy for something.
as a sidenote: hydro-dams aren't all good even, since when you flood areas during parts of the year, as is the case in Sweden, there is a whole bunch of gas produced, which then goes on and helps ruining the ozone layer.
I think the only sustainable method is to hand over all power to me. That way I could gather all good-looking chicks, kill the rest, and not need any electricity as I would keep warm anyways. perfect solution.
Actually Bic lighters are still allowed on airplanes even after the shoe-bomber incident. The tobacco companies lobbied the Bush adminstration to remove them from the 'restricted items list' citing that it would hurt their addicts...I mean customers.
The Komet, a rocket propelled aircraft that the Nazi used against allied bombers, had two tanks of fuel, that when mixed in the rocket motor, produced the thrust. Only problem was, the stuff was deadly. Stick your finger in a cup of it, and withdraw only the bone. Now we get cellphones for smokers that use some sort of "fuel" in a can. What ever happened to "solar power" ?
Now that we've moved to rechargeable batteries for everything, they're not making as much money selling us disposable ones. I guess getting us hooked on disposable fuel cell cartridges is a way to make up the deficit.
Of course, there's no technical reason we couldn't refill our own cartridges with methanol, but like wiht inkjet cartridges, they'll probably put chips in them or something to keep us from doing that. Flammability? Safety? Bah... it's about money, the old razor blade business model.
President Bush on Thursday stopped by a booth by MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. of Albany in Washington, D.C., and made a cell phone call from a phone powered by MTI's direct methanol micro fuel-cell system, according to the company.
Thursday was Feb 6, 2003.
"Eventually, we'll all be using fuel cells for our portable devices. May take 20 years for the switchover to be complete, but it'll happen. It has to, given how power-hungry we've become."
Apparently Iraq agrees with you.
Isn't there supposed to be some collective intelligence in a slashdot discussion? Where is it?
Anyone who cannot see that fuel cells will revolutions nearly every class of power using technology doesn't have a clue.
That even so many slashdotters haven't figured this out yet may indicate the broadening of participation deeply into the clueless masses. Maybe that's why articles on fuel cells come by fairly regularly. It's a heads up folks.
Fuel cells are now where transisters were in the early days. Of course they're a little bit expensive. Of course it's not easy to fit one into one of today's tiny cellular phones. How many years ago was it that the smallest handheld cellular phone was the size of a brick? Not very many.
I will not now go to great lengths to enlighten those who do not yet understand the influnce fuel cell technology will have on the technological landscape in the coming decades. If you are interested, you can easily explore the topic online.
I will, however, try to give a few salient points that I hope will stick.
1. Not fouling up the environment counts. When the economic structure some day factors in the full lifecycle costs of converting fuels into useful energy, including how much they pollute to provide that energy, fuel cells will be even more attractive.
2. A fuel cell can be though of as a refillable battery which uses commodity fuels. The usefull energy produced by todays miniature fuel cells along with their fuel (usually methanol) is already more than that of all but very small batteries, yet today batteries are the weakest link preventing more powerful (pun intended in retrospect only) mobile technologies. That's why consumer products will soon be using them; higher energy demand. It won't be just for lab prototypes and the military.
3. If you're at the tail end of the bell curve of clueful people who need to see everyone else recognize reality before you do, you'll probaby be the naive person buying my shares of various companies at the hight of the insane bubble that occurs when the huge center of the bell curve is in the process of waking up. Don't let this be you. Think for yourself, ask hard questions, and use a wide variety of sources of information.
wheres the exhaust go?
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Um, haven't we been trying for years to make our fuel-cosuming devices operate on batteries?
we all know children have no access to the anarchist's cookbook anymore now that libraries are filtered ;)
People forget that the lithium ion cells they use all the time - cell phones, notebooks - can cause real injury if they go ary, too. There's a large energy density in those cells, and large energy densities mean capability for disaster. Overcharging, shorting, physically deforming, any number of things could cause a charged lithium ion cell to catch fire or explode.
If you'd carry a lighter with you, they're certainly going to be no more dangerous. Likely a good deal safer, even.
..don't panic
Cool, imaqine the instructions: To recharge fuel cell, insert in behind and fart...
Oh well, what the hell...
Millions of people do already, its called a lighter...
Will it fly? The list of forbidden items continues to grow.
Cost of new (top of range) mobile phone ~JPY35,000
Cost of same phone 1 year later ~JPY5,000
Cost of new battery for same phone ~JPY6,000
If DoCoMo make a new plugin-type battery it will need to be for the whole range or people won't buy new phones!
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Flammible fuel for mobile phones? Why not skip the middle man and develop a charging system where we rub a glass rod through a swath of cat's fur?
FUCK disposable fuel cells. FUCK THEM in their small Japanese ass! Can't they bring more interesting inventions? I don't want disposable fuel cells gaddamnit! ××(TM)×"×(TM)×××(TM)×!
- Marco