Game of Power: Realme’s new phone is coming with a supercharged 10,001mAh battery

 Mobile phone batteries are get­ting better, but the improve­ments have been incremental. Realme might just be changing the nature of the game on January 29 when it launches its P4 Power in India. The phone comes with a whopping 10,001 mAh battery that it says packs in a day-and-a-half of usage. It can stream 32 hours of YouTube videos, and charging it for just five minutes will get half a day’s worth of power.

It is also giv­ing a guarantee of 80 per cent bat­tery power to be retained for four years, or it will replace it. There have been niche phones which have packed more battery power, but this is the first mass-market phone in India with so much juice in it. In China, Honor also has just launched a phone with more than 10,080 mAh battery power.

Batteries are getting better because of silicon-carbon technol­ogy, but the world’s biggest mobile companies, Samsung and Apple, haven’t incorporated them. Chinese companies like realme are leapfrog­ging ahead in adopting this technol­ogy, and as AI becomes a regular feature in phones, the power they need is going to increase. The gulf between the P4 and the rest in the market might be wide for now but it is only a matter of time before others catch up.