realme marked its 7th anniversary by introducing two new mobile technologies at the 828 Fan Festival event: a 15,000mAh ultra-high-density battery and the realme “Chill Fan Phone”. The company says these two innovations aim to solve the most common problems among young users, namely battery anxiety and overheating.
New realme Concept Phones
First of all, realme once again upped the battery game with the new concept phone housing a massive 15,000mAh battery, built on 100% full silicon anode design (compared to 25% in contemporary SiC batteries, per keynote) that achieves an energy density of 1200 Wh/L. According to the smartphone maker, this capacity enables up to four days of average smartphone usage, continuous video recording for as long as 18 hours, and video playback of up to 53 hours – huge numbers, in other words.
So, any trade-offs? Not much. The concept smartphone is indeed thicker than usual, although 8.89mm is still more than reasonable by modern smartphone standards; it also adopts a similar design approach as the 10,000mAh concept phone by compacting all motherboard components at the top of the chassis (cameras included, so expect tradeoffs), giving the battery maximum space available to squeeze out more capacity.
The second concept phone brought to life is the “Chill Fan Phone”, which comes with an internal cooling system that combines a miniaturized fan (à la Redmagic phones) with a thermoelectric cooler – the kind of stuff you see in external cooling accessories like the ROG AeroActive cooler. realme claims this design reduces a device’s temperature by as much as 6°C during heavy workloads, and the result is “20+ popular large-scale mobile games at high frame rates without throttling.”
It wasn’t made clear during the keynote if the acting cooling design affects water resistance, but that’s a question for the future when the company decides to properly introduce it to the market. That aside, the concept also has a special coat of paint for its back that responds to temperature changes, referred as IceSense Ultra. Essentially, if the temperature is equal to or higher than 45°C, the back turns white; if the temperature reaches 38°C or below, it turns blue.
Of course, while both phones show impressive capabilities in concept forms today, it’s a different challenge in bringing the tech to the general market with sufficient reliability. If the development goes well, we may see these tech getting pass onto flagships in the near future.
Pokdepinion: Is the battery problem finally solved? We hope so.
