Mobile phone battery

Wednesday, February 21st 2007 - 02:00 CET - Comments: 0

A s the energy source, batteries are one of the most important accessories for mobile phones. The Ni-Cd battery, which originated in the generation of black and white display mobile phones, is no longer available in the market. The NI-MH battery also has little demand nowadays. The colour display generation leads to wide application of Li-ion battery (Li-ion), which includes the lithium ion battery (LIB) and lithium ion polymer battery (LIP). As the most demanded battery, Li-ion covers 80% of the market share, while that of NI-MH battery only covers 20%. Moreover, the new generation of LIP is becoming more and more popular for its advantages and has a market share of 12%-14%.

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Mobile phones battery

After several years of development, the global Li-ion battery industry has been monopolized evenly by China, Japan and South Korea. This pattern will last for quite a long time since each of the three countries has its own characteristics and advantages. In recent years, China has made great achievements in Li-ion battery industrialization. It has formed a complete industry chain from upstream products, raw material manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, battery processing, export trade and downstream products. According to us, the number of Li-ion battery manufacturers has exceeded 100 in China, among which Shenzhen BYD, BAK and Tianjin Lishen have became the major battery manufacturers worldwide, with an annual output over 600 million units. As a large consumption country of Li-ion batteries, as well as having an abundant labor force and raw materials, China has become the final destination for multinational Li-ion battery manufacturers, such as Sony, Panasonic, and Sanyo, etc. Consequently, China has become an important global Li-ion battery production base.

 

Color display mobile handsets - Camera phones & Multimedia phones

By 2006, the color display phone dominated the market. Along with the frequent appearance of camera phones and multimedia phones, functions of photo shooting, receiving and sending multimedia messages, and downloading high-capacity games are used more and more often. However, facing the more powerful 3G mobile phones, battery capacity is obviously insufficient. Mobile phone batteries tend to be lighter, thinner and higher capacity. Various new battery types such as fuel cell, Zinc-air and solar cell are in the R & D process.

 

China mobile phone battery industry

Regarding LIP, there are around ten competent manufacturers, among which the major foreign manufacturers are Sony, Samsung and LG, while that of China are TCL and ATL. As we all know, China has an abundant and cheap labor force. Therefore, many Chinese manufacturers adopt low-cost competitive strategies by using labour-oriented semi-automatic production lines. The build cost of a single Li-ion full-automatic production line in Japan is several times or even dozens of times of that in China. Currently, some Chinese Li-ion manufacturers have caught up with their counterparts in Korea and Japan, for example, BYD and Lishen rank top five and top ten respectively on production capabilities worldwide.

 

Mobile phone battery market - Li-ion battery

Between 2003 and 2006, the CAGR of the global Li-ion battery production scale reached 23.2%, and the CAGR of sales revenue reached 12.25%. Between 2007 to 2010, the Li-ion battery industry will gradually enter into a steady growing period. According to us, the CAGR of production scale and the CAGR of sales revenue will be 9.85% and 5.85% respectively by then. In a word, the mobile phone battery market is not only a potentially huge market, but also an effective and sustainable market.

 

Mobile phone & Digital camera batteries

The sales revenue of Li-ion batteries has exceeded that of Ni-Cd and NI-MH Batteries. With the decreasing market for Ni-Cd and NI-MH batteries along with the increasing popularity for consumer and mobile electronic products such as mobile phones, digital cameras, PDAs and camcorders, the market demand for the Li-ion battery will see a relatively rapid growth rate in the future.

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