Qualcomm Patents a Way to Save Your Phone's State When the Battery Is Pulled
Most phones today have sealed batteries, but Qualcomm is solving a problem for the ones that don't: what happens to everything you…
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Charging, power delivery, and squeezing more life out of every cell. Power rarely makes headlines, but these filings decide how long everything else runs.
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