Weighing in at roughly 160g (5.6 ounces) with a 2, 150mAh battery on board, the 8.9mm (0.35 inch) thick handset has an 8-megapixel main camera, a 1.3-megapixel shooter up front, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as standard.
This configuration gives it all wheel drive and also allows the ECU to either send power to or retrieve power from (in the form of regeneration) either motor to recharge the on-board battery pack -- which can also be juiced up by plugging into the wall.
At its height, Viddy signed on about one million users a day through Facebook, said Brian O'Malley, a general partner at Battery Ventures and Viddy board member.
Officials said a circuit board and battery pack - parts of a triggering mechanism - had been recovered and the lid of a pressure cooker, apparently blown off during the explosion, was found on the roof of a nearby building.
Those tests apparently led the airplane builder to greatly underestimate the chances of battery failure, the safety board said.
We reached out to HTC for more information on how the phone was designed, and were told that the battery actually rests below the board and behind the display, taking up nearly the entire horizontal space of the VX.
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But the vehicle has a small gasoline-powered generator on board that can charge the battery on the fly when it gets low.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Boston battery fire and the process by which the FAA certified the 787's batteries were certified as safe.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also investigating the battery fire in Boston and has sent a representative to Japan to assist authorities there with their investigation of the second.
As you'll recall, MMP rev. 1 was basically Apple's diminutive PC stuffed inside a custom enclosure, attached to an LCD, battery pack, trackpad, and thumb board, and occupying a footprint smaller than even the most compact laptop.
When Brocious and I tested his hack at three New York hotels prior to his Black Hat presentation, his device was a messy two-piece contraption, with a circuit board wired to a separate battery pack, and it only worked on one of three rooms we tested.
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Investigating that incident, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the battery did not overcharge.
The 22 kW on-board charger enables a completely empty battery to be fully charged in less than an hour.
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However, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the battery being used in the 787s may not necessarily be unsafe.
The battery unit sustained severe fire damage, the safety board said, adding that it had sent two additional investigators to Boston.
Investigators in Washington have taken X-rays and CT scans of the lithium-ion battery that caught fire in Boston, the safety board said.
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The board has not so far said the battery problem would endanger the safety of the plane in flight nor recommended that the planes be grounded.
The Japanese findings come after the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said over the weekend that the battery in the Boston fire had not been overcharged, eliminating a relatively simple potential cause but adding new complexity to the investigation.
It also uses a tether and can stay aloft for 12-hours on a single ground-station battery, letting it spy from afar with on-board HD, night-vision and thermal cameras.
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The FAA announcement comes on the same day the National Transportation Safety Board told reporters it had identified the exact battery cell that first short-circuited on a plane in Boston in early January, but still had not determined the root cause of the electrical short.
Instead, it makes use of a rechargeable battery, which you can top off using the on-board micro-USB socket.
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The U.S. safety board also oversaw a series of new tests on battery systems and related components with manufacturers on Tuesday in Arizona.
The FAA approved test flights for the Boeing planes with strict conditions to assure safety: Only essential personnel will be on board, crews must continuously monitor the plane for battery-related problems and tests will be conducted over unpopulated areas.
Additional details released by the safety board said all eight cells of the lithium-ion battery involved in the Boston 787 fire showed varying degrees of thermal damage.
The board's technical experts are in possession of the battery that caught fire and are effectively performing an autopsy on its charred insides in a search for clues to what caused the conflagration.
Since then we've seen rumored specs that include Android 2.2, a 7-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz A8 processor, 4, 000mAH battery, 370-gram weight, and 16GB of on-board memory with up to 32GB of microSD expansion.
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The next step for the safety board will occur on Tuesday in Tucson, Arizona, where the battery charger and power starter unit will be tested and relevant data downloaded.
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It is battery-driven and can be recharged from the mains or by an on-board three-cylinder engine that never directly drives the wheels.
Analysis of a flight recorder from that plane showed that a lithium-ion battery experienced a sudden drop in voltage and was not overcharged, the Japan Transport Safety Board said Wednesday.
Via the integrated on-board charging componentry and the standard Porsche Universal Charger (AC), the battery can reach full charge within approximately two and a half hours when connected to a 240V power source.
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