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[QUOTE=BBC News][B]A smartphone with two screens - one of which uses e-ink technology and is "always on" - has been launched.[/B]
The Russian company Yota said the phone would go on sale online immediately in Russia, Austria, France, Spain and Germany.
The Android-powered phone promises to extend battery life by transferring web pages and other applications to the e-ink screen.
Experts said it may prove attractive to users fed up with drained batteries.
The phone has one LCD display, similar to those found on other smartphones, and a second e-ink screen which the company says lets users see the information they want without having to wake up the phone.[/QUOTE]
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[i]Could two-screen phones make a comeback?[/i]
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71515000/png/_71515104_launch.png[/img]
[i]Yota says the e-ink display can continue to display information even after the phone's battery has run out[/i]
Pretty good idea. Not sure how good it'll be in execution the first time around, but it's certainly an idea that should be developed further.
Phone companies should stop dicking around with stupid social/drawing features no one uses and make a fucking battery that last a week.
Had one of these:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Lq7WaTh.jpg[/IMG]
First cellphone with a e-ink display.
I could keep it on for a month and it would still have enough juice to make a 10 minute phone call at the end of that month.
[QUOTE=shian;43065122]Phone companies should stop dicking around with stupid social/drawing features no one uses and make a fucking battery that last a week.[/QUOTE]
Define drawing features, not sure what you're talking about there.
Shian, we aren't allowed to have good batteries, that three extra hours of battery life would make it 0.6 millimetres thicker!
[QUOTE=Reds;43065152]Define drawing features, not sure what you're talking about there.
Shian, we aren't allowed to have good batteries, that three extra hours of battery life would make it 0.6 millimetres thicker![/QUOTE]
i'd be willing to have a 5 millimeter thicker phone if it meant not having to charge all the time
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;43065167]i'd be willing to have a 5 millimeter thicker phone if it meant not having to charge all the time[/QUOTE]
I just want a thicker phone in general. I dislike the obsession with having all electronics be as thin as possible.
[QUOTE=Reds;43065175]I just want a thicker phone in general. I dislike the obsession with having all electronics be as thin as possible.[/QUOTE]
Also thicker phones feel better in the hand and have better grip, as long as it doesn't feel like a brick in my pocket i dont care
I don't care how thick or thin a phone is, I want decent battery. More bulk for 2x battery is perfectly fine by me.
OH WOW. I read through and missed the line that says android, fucking bad reading.
I might actually buy one, it seems useful.
its crazy to thing with all the features these phones have, the display alone takes like 75% of the battery life
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43065202]Also thicker phones feel better in the hand and have better grip, as long as it doesn't feel like a brick in my pocket i dont care[/QUOTE]
I also dislike the notion that everything portable needs to be thinner. If my phone isn't thick enough, I can't feel the weight on my person and I check my pockets every 35 seconds panicking thinking I lost the damn thing because I'm so forgetful.
What kind of battery life do you guys get with your phones? I have [url=http://archive.gogadgetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/samsung-lands-3-gravity-phones-9.jpg]this thing[/url], a Samsung Gravity T, and it only needs to charge every one to two weeks if I'm not spending more than like fifteen minutes a day or so on it. Is it just smartphones that have limited battery life or what?
[QUOTE=catbarf;43066218]What kind of battery life do you guys get with your phones? I have [url=http://archive.gogadgetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/samsung-lands-3-gravity-phones-9.jpg]this thing[/url], a Samsung Gravity T, and it only needs to charge every one to two weeks if I'm not spending more than like fifteen minutes a day or so on it. Is it just smartphones that have limited battery life or what?[/QUOTE]
Modern smartphones are generally always sending/receiving some sort of data or doing other processes instead of just sitting there waiting for a call.
"e-ink" does not roll off the tongue well.
[QUOTE=catbarf;43066218]What kind of battery life do you guys get with your phones? I have [url=http://archive.gogadgetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/samsung-lands-3-gravity-phones-9.jpg]this thing[/url], a Samsung Gravity T, and it only needs to charge every one to two weeks if I'm not spending more than like fifteen minutes a day or so on it. Is it just smartphones that have limited battery life or what?[/QUOTE]
If my phone is just sitting in my pocket, I get a good two or three days out of it. That's more than enough for me.
My battery life app says that the longest battery life managed is 11 days. Obviously that's an extrapolation based on the lowest power consumption managed, but it's pretty impressive.
[QUOTE=shian;43065122] make a fucking battery that last a week.[/QUOTE]
e ink contributes to this
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;43066587]If my phone is just sitting in my pocket, I get a good two or three days out of it. That's more than enough for me.
My battery life app says that the longest battery life managed is 11 days. Obviously that's an extrapolation based on the lowest power consumption managed, but it's pretty impressive.[/QUOTE]
I can force a few days of battery from my android if I turn everything off and pretty much turn it into a dumbphone which kinda defeats the purpose.
I got a larger battery for my EVO V, gives it ~2x the battery life (not saying much), but the thing's now as thick as a moderately sized paperback book in my pocket.
[QUOTE=catbarf;43066218]What kind of battery life do you guys get with your phones? I have [URL="http://archive.gogadgetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/samsung-lands-3-gravity-phones-9.jpg"]this thing[/URL], a Samsung Gravity T, and it only needs to charge every one to two weeks if I'm not spending more than like fifteen minutes a day or so on it. Is it just smartphones that have limited battery life or what?[/QUOTE]
Its more that smart phones are doing a lot more in the background than most people are aware of. The rough equivalent is that your Gravity T is constantly sending and receiving text messages and phone calls without you knowing. All being triggered by the software on the phone checking email and other miscellaneous data related services. Obviously sending and receiving data over the network will take a toll on battery life. As far as the operating system is concerned, its a standard internet connection, no different from Ethernet or Wifi.
My VZW Galaxy Nexus lasts about a day with 40% or so to spare. I just get in the habit of plugging it in at night. It tends to drain quicker because it actually has two separate cellular radios, since its a very early LTE device. One for the old CDMA network for voice/text messaging/EVDO (Verizon's old 3G network) and one for LTE. If you have LTE on, the both must be on at all times, as CDMA is still critical for the cellular connection on Verizon. That's one more thing to have powered on, ON TOP OF LTE (which only handles data) which drains the battery as its constantly polling for phone calls and text messages every few seconds (which is just how CDMA works). Also the VIA CDMA chipset the VZW Gnex used was never regarded as being very good, so it struggles to achieve signal a good signal. Which drains the battery in poorer reception areas. But, newer phones are better in this regard as its all integrated on one chip.
In short, the best way to improve the standby battery life on a smartphone is disabling LTE (if capable) and even more so, data period. You lose all data related service (includes MMS) but it becomes easy to achieve a few days of battery life.
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