Phones which charge to full in five minutes ‘could be on sale next year’

For more than a decade, batteries have been the Achilles heel of smartphones – meaning users have to leave their phones charging overnight, and top up mid-afternoon.

But a new battery could change that – allowing users to fill a phone’s battery inside five minutes, and cutting out the need to leave phones hanging off chargers for hours.

Israeli start-up StoreDot claims will start production of its FlashBattery next year.

StoreDot CEO Doron Mysersdorf told the BBC, ‘We will charge a smartphone in five minutes.’

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The revolutionary new battery technology could be used inside current smartphones which allow users to swap batteries (which sadly rules out iPhone).

Israeli company Storedot is backed by Roman Abramovich – and previously showed off demos with a Samsung smartphone charging from near-empty to full in just half a minute.

Maker StoreDot says the batteries rely on hi-tech artificial materials – biological semiconductors made from organic compounds known as peptides – which work like a ‘super-dense sponge’ which soaks up power.

Storedot is now working on a ‘scaled-up’ version for use in electric cars.