silicon carbon batteries

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8 arrive with larger batteries, faster charging on the Fold models, and a new silicon-carbon battery design—but the European battery-life figures reveal a meaningful long-term trade-off that should not be dismissed as a labeling...

Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Flip8 bring the company’s first silicon-carbon batteries to its foldable lineup, delivering useful capacity gains in exceptionally constrained hardware. But newly published European energy-label data reveals an...

Samsung’s move to silicon-carbon batteries in the Galaxy Z Flip8, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra marks one of the most consequential hardware changes in its foldable-phone strategy: not because the devices are suddenly using an entirely new kind of battery, but because Samsung has...