Kate Bush News: Rhodri Marsden: Why are the batteries on smartphones so unreliable? (Independent)

One thing is even more astounding than our ability to carry around a lozenge-sized device that can make calls, receive emails, pinpoint our position on a map and play Kate Bush albums: we don't need to wheel along a petrol-driven generator to power it all. But complaints about the rate at which the current crop of feature-rich smartphones wear down their over-worked batteries is becoming louder ...