The Chinese brand has presented a new battery technology that is more powerful but just as compact as its current accumulators.
The smartphone market may have made tremendous progress in recent years, batteries have rarely been the focus of manufacturers. If the latter were content until now to gain in size and capacity, Xiaomi could however change the situation. On Weibo, Chinese social network, the brand announced that it has developed a new high-silicon lithium battery technology. This mixture probably does not mean anything to us, but it would concretely make it possible to obtain an increased capacity, for a similar volume.
With more silicon than a conventional lithium-ion battery, and a new coating technology that significantly reduces the size of the control circuits, Xiaomi explains being able to increase the performance of the battery by 10%, without to increase its size. 10%, it may not seem like much, but it is actually a significant difference on a smartphone battery, which could store up to 100 additional minutes of battery life, Xiaomi promises. For larger capacity batteries, this difference could be even more significant. In the future, the devices of the Chinese manufacturer could thus offer a longer battery life for a similar format, or on the contrary decide to reduce their overall volume without compromising on their longevity.
Not on Xiaomi 12
Future Xiaomi 12s are unlikely to benefit from this type of technology, with their release slated for late this year. On the other hand, it is likely that the brand’s next flagships will indeed be entitled to it. A novelty that could prove particularly practical on a daily basis, when we know that our smartphones sometimes have a hard time going the distance all day.
If it has established itself on the Western market as a formidable flagship killer, Xiaomi definitely seems ready to move upmarket, undoubtedly with the aim of competing with the giants Apple and Samsung. Regarding the battery, the manufacturer had already innovated not long ago, by imagining a wireless system capable of remotely recharging a device compatible with induction.
