Smaller form factors, longer battery life and cost savings are key to today’s wearable, hearable and smart IoT device designs. GLF Integrated Power has unveiled a new IQSmart battery-protection IC ...

As our smartphones are tasked with longer lifetimes, battery health is one of the things at the front of mind for many. Knowing that, Samsung is adding a new “Battery Protection” feature to its next ...

Accidentally connecting a battery reverse can be a real killer in electronic circuits. There are a number of ways to provide protection and all have the expected advantages and disadvantages. Any ...

In what was supposedly dropping next year, Samsung's Battery Protection feature is now here, and it was discovered hidden away in the current One UI 6.0 codes, allowing users to check it out now. In a ...

Samsung’s upcoming Advanced Battery Protection feature has been uncovered in its current One UI 6 software. You’ll need to use an activity launcher app to see the feature, but it doesn’t work just yet ...

Samsung phones often drain faster due to a single power-hungry setting running in the background. By adjusting this key ...

Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy S24 flagships in January 2024. The phones will arrive with One UI 6.1 out of the box, an updated version of the company’s Android 14-based custom software. It ...

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The simplest protection method for battery packs is a fuse that opens if the system draws excessively high current. A more complex protection circuit is found in some battery packs. The ...

In a recent column I showed how one is unlikely to get the full capacity from a coin cell in any real embedded system. Let’s look at another issue: protecting the system from well-meaning users trying ...