The best smartphone battery
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This to me seems like the holy grail of modern mobile phone technology. Since getting a smartphone i am so fed up of my phone only lasting a day from a full charge.
Which phone actually has the best full battery usage? I hope its not iPhone or S3 (owned both) because they are both crap. I miss the day of my nokia 3310 standby time.
Which phone actually has the best full battery usage? I hope its not iPhone or S3 (owned both) because they are both crap. I miss the day of my nokia 3310 standby time.
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LG Optimus G Pro
Motorola Razr HD MAXX
Motorola Razr i
iPhone 5
Samsung Galaxy S3
etc....
Although granted has a big ******* battery
It's not really an issue as long as you get into the habbit of charging your phone overnight, when you will be asleep anyway. It's only a problem if you find you need to recharge more than once daily.
But sorry, I think the S3 with that big MF 7000mah battery add-on is what you need.
However, the first company to bring new batteries to market really will have a superb advance.
My money is on graphite within 3 to 4 years.
Until then, look for a removable battery. I have one in my pocket for my GNex, gets me easily through 18 hours of fairly heavy internet type use.
I also have a battery pack and USB for portable charging that cost about £30 and can keep me going through a long weekend away.
Batteries have improved though - look at the capacity available in some handsets nowadays.
I think they're more likely to slowly improve than suddenly make a ground-breaking change.
The only good thing though now is that the rest of the tech in phones has probably plateaued energy consumption wise. Now we likely wont be getting more power hungry features, but more energy saving ones. cpu, gpu, screen etc. Screens wont get larger because they will just be tablets anyway which already exist.
Sounds fine to me - I've love to not have to charge my phone all the time. I actually worry about playing games etc coz I don't want the battery to run down - it shouldn't be like that.
From what I have read with existing manufacturing techniques its not easy to reshape batteries and there is certain thickness steps. Also the circuit board layout has limitation.
Good news is there is newer battery manufacturing techniques coming online and tighter integration of components via SoC should allow larger capacity batteries to be installable. In addition new CPU and screens are more energy efficient.
It used to feel like a pain when we first moved to smartphones but now it seems perfectly normal to charge your phone every day.
The way manufacturers are tackling the issue at the moment is through wireless charging rather than increasing battery capacity. If there are wireless chargers using a common standard everywhere you go (e.g. embedded into tables in coffee shops) then you can constantly keep your battery topped up and worry less about its charge.
It might feel perfectly normal to you now, but it still feels like a pain to some of us you know (i.e. me). With the technology around us now phones should be able to last much much longer.
Make it easier to charge or dock and charge your phone and people wont be obsessed so much about battery life.
Wireless charging is a good idea but is limited when you have a thicker case on the phone. They make car docks for most smartphones but are often designed for use with no case on them. They need to think out the box and design accessories that work with each other more... ie a car dock and desk dock that would work with cases on. This is where maybe Apple have an advantage.
One size never fits all.
The only reason i can think of is that it will change a lot of the design decisions and changes the entire layout of the phone.
If manufacturers offered a choice of battery they wouldn't just make it fatter like the expansion packs you can get for S3. They would want to use the space more efficiently.
Now available from Amazon UK at £22.
Just Amazon 'S3 7000mah' to find the ZeroLemon.
As per usual the rrp is a farcical number.