How far do you go to extend your phone's battery life?

Battery life has been an issue with nearly every phone I have owned since jumping the BlackBerry ship. Larger touchscreen displays, faster, more power-consuming processors and GPUs and faster wireless connectivity have turned smartphones into battery-eating machines. And some manufacturers are doing little to compensate for all the power-hungry components.
The 1,230mAh battery in the BlackBerry Bold 9900, for instance, will last most power users an entire day. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 that I owned and abused in high school only came with a 1,150mAh battery. The 8330 usually lasted me no less than two full days of heavy use. The 9900 may not last quite as long, but a least RIM is keeping the standard of at least an entire day.
As I explained on Friday, however, HTC One X comes equipped with a 1,800mAh cell and struggles to last a full day, unless it stays parked in my pocket the majority of the day or gets a boost from my Powerbag around midday. A mere 570mAh is hardly enough to offset the power consumed by all the added features and powerful components of an Android phone.
Unfortunately, HTC isn't the only manufacturer making phones with lackluster batteries; this the case with most phones today. What's so intriguing about it, though, is how far people will go to improve their HTC BTR6300B Cell Phone Battery life, how much connectivity and how many features they will sacrifice to just squeeze a few more hours, sometimes just a few more minutes.
As per usual when writing about battery life, a handful of people shared some of the ways they are able to stretch their battery life to an entire day. Stefan Ronning suggests turning on-screen sounds and vibrate off, turning the brightness down, curbing time spents playing games and killing background apps. (For the sake of correctness, I must point out that killing background applications and processes to save battery is, for the most part, a myth. The difference in battery life is negligible.) Eduardo Ordaz also shared some suggestions, like turning off Wi-Fi, toggling 3G and 4G off when you're not using them and paying attention to Battery Usage (on Android phones) to kill any apps that are actually rogue and consuming more CPU than they should.
But these two certainly are not the only ones who go the extra mile to increase battery life. In fact, their techniques are common practice among anyone in the Android camp. There are some who go one or two strides further.
In the comments sections of previous articles about saving battery life or making your phone last the entire day, there have been several who claim to shut off all connectivity until they absolutely need it. Considering the wireless radio is one of the largest causes of drain while in standby, cutting your data connection can significantly increase your phone's battery life. Others turn background data and email/Gmail sync off, resorting to only refreshing applications as needed and sacrificing the gratification of instantaneous notifications we smartphone users have come to know and love.
You could consider me a power user, maybe even an abuser. I use hundreds of megabytes per day and several gigabytes above the average smartphone data consumption per month on two separate lines. (The average in August 2011 was about 500MB per month and I use roughly 5GB per month on each of my two lines.) As you can imagine, my over-the-top usage doesn't pair well with devices that have poor battery life. And being in the industry I am in, one where every minute counts, curbing my usage and shutting off data and sync is not an option.
Being a long-time BlackBerry fan, I grew to expect mobile devices to have great battery life – for most of them to last at least an entire day. The fact that manufacturers have let that one-day standard fall to the wayside is unacceptable, and I'm not willing to change the way I use my phones in order for them to last longer. I should be able to use a device for no less than 20 hours and not be tethered to an outlet – not even once.

Yesterday, I unplugged my One X just before 1:00 PM and left for a day trip to Charlotte. I took my Powerbag, just in case it actually died while I was out. But I wanted to see just how long it would last through a light day of usage. On Friday, while mostly on standby and Wi-Fi, it lasted nearly 20 hours before hitting 30 percent battery. Yesterday, the results weren't quite as promising, which I imagine could be due to constant LTE coverage. After a long day of running around, I finally laid down around 2:00 AM. Over the course of 13 hours, I had sent about 80 text messages (and received just as many), used 120MB of data, accrued one hour and 30 minutes of screen-on time and racked up a ton of standby time. Before plugging it in and dozing off, the phone hit 18 percent.
That's not exactly terrible – I've had phones that couldn't stand half that. But it's certainly nothing to brag about either.
The extent of what I do to prolong my phone's stamina is leave it in my pocket more and keep the display brightness as low as possible at all times. If my phone looks like it won't keep its charge until I make it home, I try to keep it usage short and to the point. And I always have Watchdog running in the background, just in case an application decides to go off the deep end and munch on my Battery for MyTouch 4G while the phone is in my pocket. For my iPhone, if I know I'm going to be away from a power source for an extended period of time, I use an offGRID case by Incipio. Once the battery on my iPhone gets low, I hit the power switch on the case, which will charge the iPhone back to about 70 percent from nearly dead.
Other than that, if my phones die, they die. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's actually refreshing to get a break from the constant buzzing and beeping of the devices I carry with me everywhere. And, although it surprises me sometimes, I actually live until I can make it to an outlet again.
Several times now, I've noted that larger capacity batteries aren't the best possible solution to the problem. Simply stuffing more milliamperes in the same space only extends the time it takes to charge a device. Take the new iPad, for example. But in the case of the DROID RAZR MAXX, it also extends usage to more than a day without significantly bulking up the device. To most, that far outweighs having to be constantly tethered to a wall. No, it isn't the best possible solution, but it's better than having a high-end, top-of-the-line phone that never stays charged for more than a six hours at a time.
Tell me, ladies and gents. What do you do to keep your phone charged for longer? Do you turn off all of your connections and only use them as needed? Or do you use your phone regularly and just go without once it dies? Do you have your own method – like rooting and altering the kernel or something to that degree – that makes your phone last noticeably longer?

Mobile Phone Battery Failure Indicators and battery tips

Battery Failure Indicators

The usable time after recharging is shortened.

The battery becomes unusually warm during a recharge cycle.

The battery becomes unusually warm during phone use.

The battery case may become swollen. This is detectable by feeling and viewing the inside/phone-side of the battery case. Also, when the battery is placed inside/phone-side down on a flat, smooth surface, it will rock and will sustain a spin motion. The case of a healthy battery is flat, and the battery will not a spin easily.

The battery develops a hard spot. This is detectable on the inside/phone-side surface of the battery by gently pinching about the surface between one's fingers.

Tips:

• Most phones now days don't need the backlight to view the screen, so it might be wise to leave the backlight off.
• Regardless of how well you care for your htc btr6300b cell phone batteries, it will die eventually. When it does, you may be able to have it refurbished by sending it to the manufacturer or bringing it back to the retailer. If it cannot be refurbished, or if you just want to get a new battery, be sure to recycle it, either by returning it to the manufacturer or retailer, or by bringing it to a recycling center. Most major retail electronics stores have drop-off boxes for recycled phones.
• Check to see if your phone has a "Battery Save" option. If so, you can turn this on to increase the life of your battery.
• You should not have to turn off your phone to charge it. Most battery chargers deliver more than enough current to power your phone and charge it at the same time. Doing so will not lengthen the charge time, and leaving a phone on allows the user to be aware of its fuel gauge, so that you can remove it when the battery is full.
• When using a car charger, do not charge the battery when the inside temperature of your car is hot. Wait until the car has cooled before you plug in the phone.
• Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries naturally get quite warm while charging, unless you use a specialized "slow charger". If your phone uses a NiMH battery, do not worry about the heat generated during charging unless it becomes so hot that it is uncomfortable to touch.
• mAh is an abbreviation for milli-ampere hours which are units of electrical charge. Larger values, for batteries of the same battery voltage, indicate that the battery has a larger capacity and will power your phone for a longer period of time before charging.
• There are numerous battery retailers and discounters that will answer questions you have regarding prolonging the life of your cell phone battery.
• If your phone is connected to your email, make sure it's not set to check your email every 15 minutes or half an hour. This means that every time it checks, you lose a little battery. Set it to where it doesn't check automatically, and you'll save a lot of battery this way.
• After each month remove your battery from mobile phone and let it rest for an hour , it will give battery a breath and it will last longer.

Warnings:

• Do not store a lithium battery with a very low charge for a long time, the battery monitor will draw a small current, which might cause a 'deep discharge' which may cause damage to the battery.
• Avoid cheap, knockoff chargers as they may cause excessive battery heating.
• When buying lithium ion batteries, be aware that oxidation begins at the time of manufacture, not the time of first use. As such, older lithium HTC btr6300b battery will have reduced capacity about 20% per year stored at room temperature.If you buy a battery at a clearance sale price, expect that you will get less life out of the mobile phone.

• Never dispose of old batteries in the trash. Batteries contain toxic metals, and electronic waste from batteries and other electronic components is becoming a major problem. Improper disposal of toxic batteries is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Prolong the Life of Your Mobile Phone Battery

1. Initialize a new battery. New batteries should be fully charged before their first use to obtain maximum capacity. Nickel-based batteries should be charged for 16 hours initially and run through 2-4 full charge/full discharge cycles, while lithium ion batteries should be charged for about 5-6 hours. Ignore the phone telling you that the battery is full—this is normal but is not accurate if the battery is not initialized.
2. Avoid fully discharging a lithium-ion battery! Unlike Ni-Cd batteries, lithium-ion batteries' life is shortened every time you fully discharge them. Instead, charge them when the battery meter shows one bar left. Lithium-ion batteries, like most rechargeable batteries, have a set number of charges in them.
3. Keep the battery cool. Put the battery in the freezer or fridge. Your battery will last longest if used near room temperature, and nothing wears on a battery like extended exposure to high temperatures. While you can’t control the weather, you can avoid leaving your phone in a hot car or in direct sunlight, and you don’t have to carry your phone in your pocket, where your body heat will raise its temperature. In addition, check the battery while it’s charging. If it seems excessively hot, your charger may be malfunctioning.
4. Charge your battery correctly, in accordance with its type. Most newer cell phones have lithium-ion batteries, while older ones generally have nickel-based batteries. Read the label on the back of the HTC MyTouch 4G battery or in the technical specifications in the manual to determine which yours is.
5. Nickel-based batteries (either NiCd or NiMH) DO NOT generally suffer from a misunderstood phenomenon known as the "memory effect." As described in Wikipedia and many expert sources,^[2] the term "memory effect" has been widely mythologized to describe any and all deterioration of NiCd (and other battery chemistries), in many cases misleading consumers into further shortening the lives of the batteries through over-discharging to "recondition" them.^[3]   

• [This section formerly read: If you charge the battery partially enough times, eventually the battery "forgets" that it can charge fully. A nickel-based battery suffering from memory effect can be reconditioned, which requires the battery to be completely discharged, then completely recharged (sometimes several times). The appropriate length of time between reconditionings varies. A good rule to follow for nickel-battery cell-phones is to discharge them completely once every two to three weeks, and only when you have a charger available.
• Lithium ion batteries can be preserved by careful charging and avoiding storing them at full charge.^[4] They do not require "reconditioning."
• Regardless of the battery type, use only a charger rated for your HTC MyTouch 4G Cell Phone Battery, and discontinue use of a charger that causes the battery to heat up excessively. 

 6. Store batteries properly. If your battery will be out of use for a while, disconnect it from the phone and store it in a cool and dry but not freezing place (an airtight container in a refrigerator, but not a freezer). Don't keep it with metal objects that might move around and short-circuit the terminals. Lithium ion batteries are not rated to operate at refrigerated temperatures, so let the battery sit outside the refrigerator for at least an hour before using it again. Lithium ion batteries oxidize least when they are stored at 40% charge. Never store a lithium battery at low voltage. Recharge batteries after storage.

7. Clean the battery contacts on the battery and on the phone. Over time, contacts may accumulate dirt which reduce the efficiency of energy transfer. Clean them with a cotton swab and rubbing or isopropyl alcohol. If the contacts are two different metals, such as gold and tin, accelerated corrosion known as "galvanic or bi-metallic" occurs. Cutting the corrosion from the contacts often requires solvents, such as acetone or nail polish remover. Be careful: these solvent dissolve plastic, so use a Q-Tip to avoid damaging the battery for Htc Mytouch 4g  housing or the phone.

New laptops compared: How long will your battery last?

Battery life is arguably becoming a laptop's most important metric. Processor speed is confusing -- different architectures have different performance at different clock speeds. Discrete graphics is even worse. But the battery? More is better! Everyone knows that. And manufacturers have latched on to it as an important marketing tool.

This has led to amazing claims. Six, seven, eight hours or more -- some modern laptops pose with endurance numbers rivaling tablets. There's just one problem. No one checks to make sure advertising and reality match. Manufacturers can claim anything they'd like.

We're going to take manufacturer claims to task by examining 10 recently released laptops and comparing their claimed battery endurance with the results we received during our reviews. Let's see if these laptops can back up their boasts.

The Contenders

We wanted to have a well-rounded list of laptops for this comparison, so we've picked ten recently reviewed models. Some are Ultrabooks, some are desktop replacements, and some are luxury portables. Here's the list of competitors and the battery life listed by the manufacturer on its website. Not every laptop we've reviewed is marketed alongside a battery life number, so we've picked laptops that claim a definite number. The text below is quoted from manufacturer marketing or spec sheets.

If we average all of these numbers we come to a total average battery life of 7.3 hours (rounding up slightly). That's quite robust. Many of these laptops are portable because manufacturers usually send us high-end models for review rather than stripped-down desktop replacements, but even so, seven hours is excellent.

Now let's see if these claims are met.

Real battery life

For the purposes of this comparison we are going to be using the numbers generated by our dell nontebook Battery Eater Reader's Test benchmark. This is not a strenuous workload. It opens a document and scrolls through it endlessly. We leave Wi-Fi on and display brightness at 70 percent. We also engage the most aggressive power-saving mode available. These conditions should result in solid battery life results.

In the table at the top of the story we've compiled our results and the difference, both for each laptop and for all laptops as a whole. Let's take a look.

What we find most interesting about these results is how well they break down by manufacturer. The Asus laptops are off by exactly 10%. The HP laptops are off by 16 percent and 15 percent. The Sony laptops are off by exactly 15 percent. Only Toshiba and Lenovo show significant variance, but both are consistent in the direction of their results -- the Toshiba laptops underperformed and the Lenovo laptops beat their estimates.

Lenovo's IdeaPad U400 is the real surprise thanks to an insanely low manufacturer claim of four hours. We applaud Lenovo for apparently being more realistic about real-world results, but at the same time, Lenovo's laptops offered shorter run times than the competition.

Interpreting the results

The overall variance is negative 11 percent, but if we exclude Lenovo, the difference increases to negative 14 percent.

Does this mean that you should expect at least 14 percent less than what is claimed? Yes, it does. Though these 10 laptops are obviously only a small portion of the market, in our experience it is rare for any laptop to meet its claimed maximum life under any conditions that involve active use of the laptop.

Even expecting 14 percent less than what is claimed may be hopeful. The benchmark reference in this article is the least demanding of the two we use. Placing a heavy load on the processor is going to eat through the battery even more quickly. Playing a game, for example, can cut battery life below 50 percent of what is claimed.

Manufacturers account for this by using the words "up to" in their advertising. With that said, some manufactures walk a finer line than others. ASUS claims the UX31 can achieve 7 hours or more on the specifications page of its website. Toshiba claims that Z835 offers up to eight hours of "non-stop browsing, emailing, doing and enjoying." These claims are simply incorrect.

Though it's possible that a laptop will meet or exceed its claim, you shouldn't expect it. Instead, you should expect a laptop to come in below its maximum by at least 14 percent and -- more realistically -- around 25 percent.

A silver lining

All of this sounds a bit doom-and-gloom, so let's end on a high note. While we do find that laptops fail to meet their quoted endurance in our dell laptop batteries life benchmarks, there has been an upward trend in real-world battery life.

Five years ago you'd be lucky to achieve three hours with a basic desktop replacement, but the worst battery life we recorded among the systems in this comparison was a tad over five hours. The average buy should find this to be more than adequate. Even if claims are not being met, real-world battery results do not fail to impress.

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Gaming Laptops Now Available With Intel's Hot Ivy Bridge Processors

If you’ve been waiting to buy a new gaming laptop so you could have the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processor and Nvidia “Kepler” graphics cards, your patience is now rewarded. Several recently updated gaming systems--from Alienware, Asus, Maingear, and others--are available for order today and can be in your eager hands in as little as eight days from now.

Top-of-the-Line Processors and Graphics Cards

The gaming laptops in this roundup all sport quad-core Intel Core i7 processors--the first Ivy Bridge chips Intel released for laptops. It’s no wonder that the first Ivy Bridge-equipped laptops available so far are overwhelmingly high-end gaming laptops, since laptops designed for gaming typically are outfitted with the most powerful hardware.
Although Ivy Bridge offers significant graphics improvement with its integrated HD 4000 graphics processing unit (GPU), the laptops here also sport discrete graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD (depending on your configuration choice)--cards capable of supporting the most graphics-intensive games.
With the Ivy Bridge update, most of these gaming laptops got a refresh to the latest Nvidia GPU, code-named “Kepler,” which is said to be twice as fast as its predecessor and also use up less acer laptop battery life.

Available for Preordering or Ordering Now

Here's the current landscape:
Alienware M17x gaming laptopAlienware M14x, M17x, and M18x: A week before Intel launched its new Ivy Bridge processors, Dell refreshed the Alienware gaming laptop series with Nvidia GeForce GTX 600 series graphics cards and other hardware upgrades--all except the processor.
Now that Ivy Bridge is here, all three Alienware models--the Alienware M14x, M17x, and M18x--offer the third-generation processors, while keeping the distinctive AlienFX lighting and styling.
(You can still get an Alienware M14x with a second-generation Sandy Bridge Core i5 processor, but for the larger M17x and M18x, the standard processor is the Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610QM.) The Alienware 14x starts at $1099, the M17x at $1499, and the M18x at $1999. See the Dell Alienware laptops page for more information.
Asus G75VW gaming laptopAsus G75VW and Asus G55VW: Asus’s Republic of Gamers G75VW and G55VW gaming laptops were among the first laptops to offer Nvidia Kepler graphics, with the GeForce GT 660M card. Both elegantly-designed gaming powerhouses come with a standard Intel Core i7-3610QM processor. The 17-inch 3D-capable Asus G75 is available for $1499.99 on Amazon and is configured with 16GB of RAM and a 750GB hard drive (7200 rpm). Shipping should take just over a week. A similarly spec’ed 15.6-inch G55 can be purchased from J&R for $1449.
Maingear Ex-L Series and Alt-15: Custom PC builder Maingear has also updated its Maingear Ex-L Series and Alt-15 laptops with Ivy Bridge processors and new Nvidia graphics chips.
Maingear Ex-L 15The Ex-L 15, Alt-15, and Ex-L 17/17 3D models can be outfitted with either second-generation Intel Sandy Bridge processors or third-generation Ivy Bridge processors. Configuration options include Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M and 675M cards (these are based on older Fermi, rather than Kepler, designs but are optimized for peak performance out of the Fermi architecture).
Prices start at a pretty affordable $979 for the lower-end 15-inch Alt-15 to $1599 and above for the larger 17-inch Ex-L 17.
MSI GT60MSI GT60 and GT70: The 15-inch GT60 and the 17.3-inch GT70 gaming laptops from MSI offer Intel Core i7-3610QM processors and Nvidia GeForce GTX670M graphics cards.
A standout feature of the MSI gaming laptops is the colorful, Steelseries-designed keyboard with different backlighting modes and gamer-suited configurations. You can outfit these gaming laptops to your heart’s content with up to 32GB of RAM and solid-state-drive RAID configurations--starting at $1499 for the GT60 and $1549.99 for the GT70 at MSI.
Origin EON11-S, EON15-S, and EON17-S: Custom PC builder Origin offers not just your standard 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch gaming laptops (the EON15-S and EON17-S, respectively), but also a very unusual 11.6-inch gaming laptop, the EON11-S.
Origin EON15-SAll three EON laptops offer third-generation Intel processors and Nvidia 650M or 675M graphics cards. Since Dell has discontinued its 11-inch Alienware M11x, the small EON11-S picks up the ultraportable gaming laptop banner, starting at $999. The EON15-S starts at $1561, and the EON17-S starts at the high-end price of $2541. All are sold directly from Origin.
Samsung Series 7 GamerSamsung Series 7 Gamer: Also known (awkwardly) as the Samsung Series NP700G7C, this slim 17.3-inch Ivy Bridge gaming laptop from Samsung is already available for preorder--that was true in February, nearly three months before Intel officially launched Ivy Bridge.
Besides the Intel Core i7-3610QM processor, the Samsung Series 7 Gamer offers an Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M graphics card, 16GB of memory, and a very generous 1.5TB (7200 rpm) hard drive. It’ll cost you, but you can have the laptop shipped to you right away for $1899.99 from Amazon and other retailers.

What's Coming

If you have a favorite gaming laptop not on this list, don’t worry. In all likelihood there’s a newer model or an update coming out any day now with the new Ivy Bridge processor options and updated graphics cards. But if you’re itching to buy right now, these are the latest and greatest gaming laptops you can get.
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When Dancing the Senses, Sometimes No Explanation Is Required

“Perceptual Motion,” the new work presented by Battery Dance Company, is about the five senses. During its course, we’re clearly told this — in writing. Typed definitions and scientific descriptions of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell appear on a screen at the beginning of each section; there’s a particular pleasure in finding that there’s no dumbing down in the way information is stated. Words like “somatosensory” and “mechanoreceptor” are part of the script, and at the matinee I attended on Friday at 3LD Art & Technology Center the audience responded with complete attention throughout because of the work’s serious intelligence.

A number of basic questions arise from such a work. We can all mime aspects of the senses, but can we dance them? If a dance abstracts or lyricizes aspects of a sense, how does the audience know what the dance is about? Must a certain amount of literal gesture be employed? And regardless of whether the dance illustrates its subject matter, is it good as a dance?

The answers to these questions kept changing during the course of this 80-minute work, which was choreographed by the company’s five main dancers — Robin Cantrell, Mira Bai Cook, Bafana Solomon Matea, Carmen Nicole Smith and Sean Scantlebury — each making one section. I confess that I was dreading Smell, which came last. Were the dancers going to keep sniffing one another? Yet this proved to be one of the most entertaining parts of the performance, where each of its three sections began with a dancer walking through the audience with a spray can, while the words “Please Inhale” appeared on the screen. It didn’t matter that most of us couldn’t detect a scent; onstage the section started with a flying lift in which the dancer’s legs — parted wide and kicking responsively in opposite directions — suggested intense sensual responsiveness. No dancer ever mimed sniffing or inhaling; no such explanation was required.

The expressive methods kept changing. The Sight section (the first) began with one woman who was blindfolded. As she felt her way to a male partner, the dance was perilously close to being about Touch rather than sight, but later, when blindfolds were removed, the contrast of feeling was unmistakable.

The solo with which Mr. Scantlebury opened Taste was irresistible. Fast, exuberant, pulsatingly rhythmic, it covered space and used every part of the body. What on earth it had to do with taste was a problem I kept shelving in the back of my mind. A delight in its own right, this was the dance that I would most want to see again. Each sense though had passages that were bland and which seemed equally unconnected to their subject matter. Fortunately this never mattered for long; every so often something would bring us back to the theme.

Battery Dance Company, which does much work connected to education, travels extensively; last week’s performances preceded a tour of Brazil and Surinam. The changes of scale, pace and tone in “Perceptual Motion” all expressed a keen instinct for holding an audience’s attention. Of the cast, the two men, temperamentally very dissimilar, are the most natural stage animals. Mr. Matea’s manner is contemplative, Mr. Scantlebury’s extrovert, but both have easy stage authority and full-toned dancing. The lean Ms. Cantrell seems always central: In ensembles she’s the one with the surest sense of a phrase’s shape and rhythm, but as a soloist her manner tends to be conscientious rather than personal.

In a few parts they were joined by five guest dancers; the scale varied between solos and duets and larger ensembles. The collage of taped music ranged from classical to techno-rock. One problem was that little of the music was particularly interesting in its own right; a more serious one was that few dances even tried to show what interest there might be in the music. Several quartets showed four different solos happening at the same time (always a technical accomplishment worth noting), but they invariably happened in the same tempo, even when the music involved instruments playing at different speeds.

As choreography “Perceptual Motion” was only occasionally of note (Mr. Scantlebury’s Taste solo, the opening of Smell, a few other moments). As a teacherly exercise in how dance can communicate with, and engage, an audience, it was largely successful. I was always grateful for its skill as entertainment while often wishing it were more ambitious as a work of art.

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NEW MAKITA MULTI-TOOLS DELIVER POWER, ACCURACY AND VERSATILITY

La Mirada, Calif. – Makita, a worldwide manufacturer of technologically advanced power tools that are more compact with less weight yet deliver industrial strength power and results, has released two new multi-tools: the new 18V LXT Lithium-Ion Cordless Multi-Tool Kit (model LXMT025), and the new Multi-Tool Kit (model TM3000CX5). Both tools are engineered for fast cutting, sanding, scraping and grout removal, and are ideal for a full range of trades.

The cordless LXMT025 is the latest addition to Makita’s expanding 18V LXT line-up, with 50+ tools all powered by one 18V Lithium-Ion power tool battery – with more tools on the way.
“Trades of all kinds are turning to oscillating multi-tools for a full range of applications,” said Joe Soto, Product Manager, Residential Construction. “Makita has engineered power and performance features into both models, with additional features like reduced vibration and lower noise. With an 18V LXT Lithium-Ion Cordless multi-tool, as well as a corded multi-tool, Makita has two best-in-class options for contractors.”

LXMT025: Corded Speed and Power without the Cord

The 18V LXT Lithium-Ion Cordless Multi-Tool (LXMT025) delivers up to 15 minutes of run time with Makita’s fast-charging 18V LXT Lithium-Ion battery. The variable speed control dial (6,000 – 20,000 OPM) and soft start feature enable the user to match the speed to the application with more control, and the 3.2 degree oscillation angle is engineered for faster, more aggressive cutting and sanding. The LXMT025 features an L.E.D. light to illuminate the work area, a small diameter barrel grip for improved handling, a large on/off slide switch with lock-on button, and a clamp system and adapter (included) to fit most competitive accessories.

The new LXMT025 is powered by Makita’s 18V LXT Lithium-Ion battery and the ENERGY STAR® qualified Rapid Optimum Charger. Makita’s 18V Lithium-Ion battery delivers 3X more cycles, and the Rapid Optimum Charger will charge an 18V LXT Lithium-Ion battery in only 30 minutes for more work and less downtime.

“As the market leader in 18 volt lithium-ion, it is only natural that Makita delivered a cordless oscillating multi-tool with the speed and performance of a corded multi-tool,” said Ethan Haughawout, Product Manager, Cordless Tools. “This new multi-tool is just one of more than 50 tools that are all powered by Makita LXT Lithium-Ion, the industry’s first 18 volt lithium-ion bosch gsr 10.8v li battery.”

The LXMT025 is a kit and includes two 18V LXT Lithium-Ion batteries and charger, as well as an assortment of 14 accessories for cutting and sanding. The LXMT02Z is available as a bare tool with the tool only, 1 plunge cut blade and 2 accessory adapters but without the batteries and charger.

New TM3000CX5 Delivers Lower Vibration and Lower Noise

The new TM3000CX5 is powered by a 3.0 AMP motor with soft start for smooth start-ups. The variable speed control dial (6,000 – 20,000 OPM) enables the user to match the speed to the application, and the electronic speed control maintains contstant speed under load for smoother, higher-quality work. Similar to the 18V Lithium-Ion Multi-Tool, the new TM3000CX5 has a 3.2 degree oscillation angle engineered for faster, more aggressive cutting and sanding. The TM3000CX5 also features a range of comfort and convenience features including reduced vibration (6 m/s²) and lower noise (74dB), a small diameter barrel grip, a large on/off slide switch with lock-on button, and a clamp system and adapters (included) to fit most competitive accessories.

Two Options for a Full Range of Applications
Both tools are engineered for a full range of applications including cutting, sanding, scraping, grout removal, and more. The LXMT025 and TM3000CX5 are ideal for remodelers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, wood floor installers, and general contractors seeking a best-in-class multi-tool. Both tools will be available in May 2012.

About Makita USA

Makita is a worldwide manufacturer of industrial quality power tools and offers a wide range of industrial accessories. Makita utilizes leading-edge technology and innovation to engineer tools that are more compact with less weight yet deliver industrial strength power and results. Makita’s extensive line of cordless lithium-ion tools includes 18V LXT® Lithium-Ion, 18V Compact Lithium-Ion®, and 12V max Lithium-Ion Other best-in-class products include rotary and demolition hammers and saws equipped with Anti-Vibration Technology™ (AVT™), MM4 4-stroke outdoor power equipment, Super Joint System (SJS) grinders, miter saws engineered with Deep and Exact Cutting Technology (DXT), and more. Makita U.S.A., Inc. is located in La Mirada, California, and operates an extensive distribution network located throughout the U.S. For more information, call 800/4-MAKITA (800/462-5482) or visit the website at makitatools.com. Follow Makita at facebook.com/makitatoolspage, twitter.com/makitatools, and youtube.com/makitapowertools. The Makita Teal color is the trade dress of Makita Corporation and is protected under common law and registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Makita is Best in Class Engineering.

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