Bluetooth keyboards will get 10-year battery life with new chip, Broadcom promises

Broadcom is working on a Bluetooth chipset that will give wireless keyboards a battery life of up to 10 years, the company said on Tuesday.

If they had a battery life of as long as 10 years, that Bluetooth-based accessories could potentially never need new batteries, the chip maker said. A set of two AA batteries would be enough to power a keyboard using the BCM20730 Bluetooth chip to connect with a computer for its entire lifetime, Broadcom said.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/bluetooth-keyboards-will-get-10-year-battery-life-new-chip-broadcom-promises-181127?source=rss_mobile_technology

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