The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is about ten months away, which means that the development of the components that will go inside it should be almost complete to allow enough time for testing and production. And according to the latest report from South Korea, the café’s next flagship could bring new battery technology, borrowed from the electric vehicle industry.
Korean publication The Elect says Samsung’s SDI division, which is responsible for battery R&D, is looking to bring stacked batteries into the smartphone business. Rather than a change to the chemical content of the battery, this refers to how the cells are arranged, but the effect is still higher energy density, allowing more capacity to fit in the same volume. Audi’s Q8 e-tron used similar technology to pack a 114kWh battery inside, while Chinese battery maker CATL has an even larger 140kWh stacked battery.
Of course, smartphone batteries operate in a very different environment than EV power packs, but the report says we should expect a 10% improvement in density. That doesn’t necessarily mean the Galaxy S24 Ultra will pack a 5,500mAh battery compared to the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s 5,000mAh. Samsung could very well use the improved package to fit the same capacity inside a smaller cell, freeing up room for other components or allowing for a more compact phone.
Battery assemblies are usually one of the first components to lose as a smartphone moves through its development stages, so we’ll likely hear more about them soon.
Previously, we heard that the Galaxy S24 could come with a new camera setup and a massive GPU boost.
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