Why Battery Life Should Be The New Smartphone Battleground - Polidicks

Yep; that sounds like it could work. Multiple interchangeable battery packs with an additional in-built "backup" battery that lasts about a minute or two so the machine can keep running whilst you switch out battery packs. The backup cell would also draw a bit of power off of the fresh battery so it can replenish the minute's worth of reserve power the next time you have to switch batteries. Might be strange, but hey, at least it isn't like the battery life of most flashlights in gaming that burn through batteries like they are stacks of pennies and salty paper, or you can only haul around so many as if you were lugging around Baghdad Batteries.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43334354]Yeah really solid I went to the city and had my 3G on, i used it time to time, i took a few pictures, went on the internet and listened to music and i didn't have it on for that long I came home to 0% battery I was out for 5 hours[/QUOTE] You must either have a lot of things running in the background or have the brightness up too high. I make it a habit to kill running apps before I put my phone away.

I'd kill for a 4" android phone packing up a 3500+ mAh battery (it being thick is good).

My Nexus 4 has been out over a year and I wouldn't know it, yet the battery doesn't even always last a whole day. It's the biggest issue I have. 08:00 - 23:00 and it'll only just make it with my usage which is a pain, because if I do anything more, that's it.

My nokia lumia 920 has a 2000mah battery, and it's less than a half inch thick. I'm working on 2 days of no charge now and I use it for music, internet, and of course games. Why don't you have a lumia 920, people?

I got a slightly higher MAH battery for my Note. Like 10USD. Kept the OEM one in my wallet. Shit was awesome, didn't even care about battery life at that point cause it's hard to eat through two charges. I need to get a spare for my Note 3 now. I get close to killing it most days.

[QUOTE=Scot;43333968]You do get phones with bigger batteries, such as the Droid Maxx, but they're chunky as fuck. You can also buy bigger batteries for phones with that option such as the Samsung Galaxy series. The options are there if you bother to look.[/QUOTE] The Droid Maxx isn't chunky at all lol, just got one and comparing it to my last phone (Droid Bionic) with one of those fat as fuckk extended batteries the old one was at least 3 times as fat. Maybe that's why I don't think it's chunky at all though. [editline]28th December 2013[/editline] And the battery on the Droid Maxx does actually last a lott longer then aforementioned extended battery

[QUOTE=EcksDee;43332832]I have a smartphone and it lasts 1.5 days with near-constant use, calling/internet/music. If I don't use it and don't charge it it lasts 5 days. How do you have such a shitty shitty brick phone.[/QUOTE] The fuck phone do you have? My s3 lasts for maybe 6 hours with usage like that, though it does last for like a month if I don't use it and don't charge it (and keep it off)

Sometimes my phone's battery gets so drained, that when I plug it into my charger, it sometimes gets stuck in a vibrating loop and struggles to turn on.

The fine art of battery management is a skill that I'm surprised more people haven't learned. My smartphone's battery lasts for ages, just turn the screen brightness down, kill apps that stay on passively and disable unnecessary processes. Sometimes I can eke a week of charge if I'm lucky.

The improvments we've seen in hardware and software have helped quite a bit with battery life, my Nexus 4 massively outlives my old iPhone 3Gs (which would die from zero use half way through the day). It requires charging at least once a day, with me using it for a few hours a day to browse the Internet, listen to music, etc. The strange heat issue the Nexus 4 has probably doesn't help the battery life in the slightest mind. Bigger battery life is totally where we should be focusing now, screens are so high quality, speakers are, well, better. Sensors, radios and other core hardware are extremely powerful now. Putting it all aside for a few years to create better batteries really seems like the next logical thing.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;43337328]My nokia lumia 920 has a 2000mah battery, and it's less than a half inch thick. I'm working on 2 days of no charge now and I use it for music, internet, and of course games. Why don't you have a lumia 920, people?[/QUOTE] This, Lumias are fucking amazing for battery. Mine once reported an estimated battery life of 11 DAYS. The only times I've ever run out of charge whilst using it are times that I've gone without charging it for two or three days, and even then I was using the damn thing more often than normal.

[QUOTE=ironman17;43334141]Considering this is probably the century in which we'll put bases on the Moon, we're gonna need things that are built to last, with big monster-power batteries that keep going for weeks or months without needing to plug into a wall-socket. You couldn't get away with a battery life measured in hours up on Luna; you'd get thrown into the protein vats so that you'd provide valuable resources as payment for the man-hours wasted and potential lives put at risk.[/QUOTE] The computers on moon bases won't need to be able to play Asphalt 8 at 30FPS while Samsung S-Touch Voice Wiz Touch HD Touch Superbloat 2.0.apk wastes power in the background so I'm sure they can get away with relatively less battery power

the galaxy s4 has the most amazing battery I've ever had on a phone, but that's mostly because I keep my brightness all the way down (as a personal preference) I could probably go two full days without thinking twice about my battery, but I charge it nightly out of habit

Even if the Galaxy S2 (for example) was twice as thick as it is currently, it would [i]still be pretty thin[/i]. I'd gladly make that 'sacrifice' for better battery life, or even more powerful components.

[QUOTE=Lolkork;43334561]NO! We need more megapixels and cores so that we can post life-like pictures of our food and play angry birds in stunning HD.[/QUOTE] Don't forget the ~"sleek"~ design that's so thin you're almost gonna cut yourself on the phone everytime you hold it. Who needs actual usability and utility when your 500$ smartphone doubles as a letter opener? [QUOTE=Tmaxx;43337328]My nokia lumia 920 has a 2000mah battery, and it's less than a half inch thick. I'm working on 2 days of no charge now and I use it for music, internet, and of course games. Why don't you have a lumia 920, people?[/QUOTE] That's a glorified featurephone in comparison to the competition. It ain't gonna use much power if it can't do much in the first place at all.

[QUOTE=O Cheerios O;43341042]Don't forget the ~"sleek"~ design that's so thin you're almost gonna cut yourself on the phone everytime you hold it. Who needs actual usability and utility when your 500$ smartphone doubles as a letter opener? That's a glorified featurephone in comparison to the competition. It ain't gonna use much power if it can't do much in the first place at all.[/QUOTE] The fuck are you on about? my ~~~featurefone~~~ can do just as much as your iphone or android you elitist jackass.

Well, making better batteries is a subject being tackled by everybody for everything. Military, industry, civilian. It's tough.

I hope we have phones with awesome battery life in 5 years rather than just really fast phones. Being able to forget to charge your phone one night and still have normal use the next day would be a blessing.

I've got a Note 3, and surprisingly, if you keep the screen brightness at a reasonable level, the battery can last a very long time. It's battery save function is a great feature. I'm pulling two+ days out of the battery, and that is with about an hour of video a day, plus browsing, email, text, and talk time.

My Galaxy s4 has had a max of 23 hours on the standard battery with screen brightness all the way up, a good portion of that time being heavy usage. I don't think that's too bad..

The G2 is the best phone I've had as far as battery life is concerned. Medium usage, unplug at 7HAM, by midnight, it's only at 60-80%.

[QUOTE=LittleBabyman;43332910]I still use my 10 year old phone which works perfectly fine[/QUOTE] my horse drawn carriage still works perfectly fine I don't even need to buy gas

My old Nokia used to run on willpower, I'm certain of it. It just hardly needed charging.

[QUOTE=Crapchastic;43360588]my horse drawn carriage still works perfectly fine I don't even need to buy gas[/QUOTE] Your mockery is silly because if horse carriage fits your needs there's nothing wrong in using that.