Honor leak points to smartphone with 'guaranteed' week-long battery life — 15,000mAh battery could provide taste of classic Nokia longevity

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  • Honor is reportedly testing a phone with a 14,000-15,000mAh battery
  • The main selling point of the handset would apparently be a "guaranteed" week of battery life
  • However, we wouldn't count on being able to buy it even if it does launch

After having remained relatively stable for a long time, battery capacities in smartphones have finally started increasing over the last few years, thanks largely to the use of new technologies such as silicon carbon. But mainstream handsets still tend to be under 6,000mAh, and very few phones breach 10,000mAh.

That could soon change though, as Honor is reportedly testing a phone battery of between 14,000mAh and 15,000mAh — with the phone’s main feature supposedly being a “guaranteed” one-week battery life.

This is according to leaker Digital Chat Station posting on Weibo (via NotebookCheck), which has a reasonable track record — but we’d still take this with a...

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