Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

[windstrings]

Hello All,
Thank you for your support and rather keen eyes! We have noticed the the error and have corrected it. The battery is in fact a 2600mAh battery instead of the 1750mAh. The included battery door adds no more than 0.9cm (or 0.35in) in thickness. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns!

Regards,

awesome!..... thanks for the correction.

I do have another question.. please forgive my ignorance.

I too have had extended batteries and I've wondered if the part that fits in the regular space is mostly filler?

What I mean is.. if you add a plate thats bigger than the original "and" you still have battery filling the original space then why isn't to total Ah more than twice the size of the original?

I seems to me the extended batteries take up more than twice the physical space of the original yet don't provide similar ah capacity to reflect that size?

Could you please elaborate as to what actually happens in the building of an extended battery that may help explain?

 

[Rikybob]

Laurence, I was thinkin the exact same thing!


R/B

 

[windstrings]

LOL!... sorry we're such hard customers... all else fails, it sounds like you have a great battery that slams the competition.

I"m just trying to figure out if they elect to simply not add the max amount of ah possible to keep costs down and figure people won't appreciate and pay for it, or if there are limitations to these types of battery configurations because its apparent to keep the same voltage, there are either more cells ran in parallel or bigger cells.

If the cells are ran in parallel it would make sense to be forced to use the same type, and size of cells that fit in the smaller "standard" space so as to keep the whole battery in balance...then when counting for efficiency losses.. you basically only get close to double the original ah that way.

But if there is a way to make "bigger" cells and have them bend or conform to the crazy physical shape needed, we could have even more.

I'm betting the first scenario is closer to what happens.

Seems the easiest way to build such an extended battery would be to not create a new form factor of cell but simply double the existing and parallel/sandwich them together into a case... anything otherwise would get expensive.

 

[mbeatle]

LiPo batteries can be made with virtually any dimension. I seriously doubt they are using two cells in parallel. That's not the best solution.

I'll be interested to see the look of the new Innocase that works with the extended battery. There will ultimately be voids due to the design of the Droid's battery cover (they use a small plate - the entire back doesn't come off) but the phone will look much better, IMO. I believe they should have made the entire back chunkier and done away with the rear battery cover altogether. Instead, make an Innocase style back, perhaps with some strategically placed foam over the other components and battery to give it stiffness.

 

[windstrings]

LiPo batteries can be made with virtually any dimension. I seriously doubt they are using two cells in parallel. That's not the best solution.

I'll be interested to see the look of the new Innocase that works with the extended battery. There will ultimately be voids due to the design of the Droid's battery cover (they use a small plate - the entire back doesn't come off) but the phone will look much better, IMO. I believe they should have made the entire back chunkier and done away with the rear battery cover altogether. Instead, make an Innocase style back, perhaps with some strategically placed foam over the other components and battery to give it stiffness.

Do you have a link that shows what the Innocase may look like with this extended battery?

-------------EDit... nevermind.. I found your post here

But in that pic it looks like the standard battery... a very nice looking case!

Surely they would make one for their own battery?

 

[windstrings]

I talked with Seidio and they do anticipate making a case for the extended battery usage. Estimated a month or two before possible release.

Meanwhile the extended battery is available now for preorder to release on 1/10/10

However, I'm at a quandary, If I get the battery before the case is out, it going to get all scratched up before the case gets released?.... hum... trying to think of a temporary solution till the case arrives?

 

[macarunni]

I am very interseted in an extended battery for my Droid. Should have come from Verizon with an extra battery or car charger! :blink:

 

[windstrings]

I am very interseted in an extended battery for my Droid. Should have come from Verizon with an extra battery or car charger! :blink:

Not sure what you mean.. but Verizon doesn't make their own stuff.... once someone like seidio makes a popular quality product, Verizon strikes a deal and changes the name on it and sells it under their name... and usually raises the price of course!

If you do some digging like I have done in the past, you can almost always find the same extended battery Verizon sells somewhere else much cheaper with the exact same specs and look with a different name.... who's copying who?

Verizon doesn't make their phones either.. they are a communications company that provides a network.

 

[macarunni]

I am very interseted in an extended battery for my Droid. Should have come from Verizon with an extra battery or car charger! :blink:

Not sure what you mean.. but Verizon doesn't make their own stuff.... once someone like seidio makes a popular quality product, Verizon strikes a deal and changes the name on it and sells it under their name... and usually raises the price of course!

If you do some digging like I have done in the past, you can almost always find the same extended battery Verizon sells somewhere else much cheaper with the exact same specs and look with a different name.... who's copying who?

Verizon doesn't make their phones either.. they are a communications company that provides a network.

My Boulder cell phone I had came with a regular battery and an extended battery in the box.

 

[TheOldFart]

I am wondering about the volume efficiency of this extended battery. The standard 1400 mAh battery is 0.6 cm thick. This extended battery adds 0.9 inches of thickness to the phone for only 1200 mAh more capacity. That doesn't sound very volume efficient to me.

My previous phone was the enV and I had an extended battery for it. It was also the same way. The standard 950 mAh battery was just over 0.5 cm thick. The 1700 mAh battery added 0.7 cm to the thickness for the extra 750 mAh capacity. It seems to me that when adding less than another 100% of capacity that the extra thickness should be less than the original thickness and not more.

In any case, I thought that the extra 0.7 cm of thickness added to the enV was a nuisance at times, so I'm thinking that an extra 0.9 cm added to the Droid is just too mcuh. That is 64% extra thickness. The extra life would be good, but not if it looks and feels like a brick when I carry it. For those who put it in their pocket, I can't imagine what that would look like.

 

[windstrings]

My Boulder cell phone I had came with a regular battery and an extended battery in the box.

Verizon decides how to market.... Originally when the Droid was released from Motorolla and Google in the very early readings it was reported the phone would cost XXX and include the night cradle too that I believe Verizon decided to charge 30.00 for.

 

[windstrings]

Yes.. .if a battery could or " would" be made that encompassed the whole back of the unit, it seems it could in return be thinner... as long as an adequate window was made for the camera angle to not be blocked it would be a winner that no one could refuse!

That alone is a powerful marketing strategy... I wonder why we keep getting big bumps that have to be thick instead?

Not trying to be all negative here, but rather trying to offer solutions for much higher customer satisfaction, popularity and greater income to the developer.
Thats a win-win... even if it cost more in my book!

In fact if one comes out that cost a 100.00 bucks and has 3000ah and is thinner, it will sell like hotcakes compared to existing.

 

[aaf709]

I'm interested. I had the extended battery with the Voyager and it worked well.

 

[mbeatle]

Do you have a link that shows what the Innocase may look like with this extended battery?

-------------EDit... nevermind.. I found your post here

But in that pic it looks like the standard battery... a very nice looking case!

Surely they would make one for their own battery?

Do you mean my post here? http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-accessories/497-motorola-droid-case-reviews-9.html#post87528

That's just my phone with an inexpensive rubberized case from ebay, not specifically what the phone would look like with an extended battery and a case.

Going back to my comparison to the Pre's extended battery, the Droid has a different battery door, one that doesn't take up the entire back of the phone. Thus, Seidio chose to only rework the door. I would have to think that the Innocase for the extended battery will return the Droid to its blocky state and remove the "hood scoop." It will be a tradeoff for those that want a more uniform phone with ultimately more bulk. I'm in that camp.

 

[raven1911]

Why not just buy a regular motorola replacement battery and charge them both and have the other as a spare when the first one dies? That way your droids size is not altered.