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120 hours of music playback on your mobile? Thank the Wolfson WM8903

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By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 8:12 AM

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The best handsets on the market today, in terms of how many hours it can play back music, are the Nokia N78 and the Apple iPhone 3G, both claim to do 24 hours. Wolfson recently introduced a new chip called the WM8903 that is supposed to bump up the number of hours you can annoy people sitting on the bus next to you with that new death metal band from Denmark to 120 hours. Handsets shipping next year with nVidia based processors should feature this solution.

[Via: The INQ]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Will Park

    120 hours of music playback?! That’s amazing.

    Can’t wait for nVidia to get their wares to market – especially with their slick UI.

  • Zak

    Imagine this combined w/ the battery innovations that are soon to come :) :) :) !!!!

    That one lithium Ion technology that utilized tiny hairs claimed it would increase the length by 30X

    so, w/ this chip and that battery

    120 X 30 = 3600 Hours of Playback!!!!!

  • Raidium

    Zak makes a good point! Is this 120 hours based on the battery technology in most phones today? Or with the next line of batteries? Because if this is based on the current ones in the market today then this is more the revolutionary!! :D This thing could produce a rediculious amount of playback with unlimited potential! This is pretty sweet! :razz: