Low end phones, i.e. the ones with little functionality and supporting only 2G standards could have superior battery life. No clue whether such a thing exists. I would guess that newer phones could benefit from high-K material and smaller structural widths in this respect.

Could you Europeans learn to realize that Slashdot is an American site?

> it's like an automatic savings account!

No. It's an interest-free loan to the government.

I would use F anyway even if C was the international standard. More precision with F.

See, this thing we're all doing here is like a conversation...

Actually, the Russian K36 ejection seats are no more (or less) capable than the standard Aces II seat that all US fighters use.

Zvezda is also Russia's primary manufacturer of ejector seats for Russian fighter aircraft. The K-36 ejector seat was studied at length by the US Navy and Air Force; IBP Aircraft opened up a factory in the US to manufacture it for the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter.[citation needed] The US Government, however, selected the Martin-Baker seat from the United Kingdom for their new fighter jet.

How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?