Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov...
by GeekyBear on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:54AM
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Let's compare to a Google phone of that era with the same issue.
>If you're among those affected, your phone will randomly shut down and completely die, even though your battery indicator might have said you had plenty of juice left. It's not a simple system crash, because your phone will stay dead until you connect it to a charger.
We've seen reports of the battery dying from a charge as high as 67% to as low as 15% on both Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat. So it's not a problem with the recent Android update, and it's not as simple as the battery meter just being off by a few percentage points.
>If you're among those affected, your phone will randomly shut down and completely die, even though your battery indicator might have said you had plenty of juice left. It's not a simple system crash, because your phone will stay dead until you connect it to a charger.
We've seen reports of the battery dying from a charge as high as 67% to as low as 15% on both Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat. So it's not a problem with the recent Android update, and it's not as simple as the battery meter just being off by a few percentage points.
https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/nexus-6p-battery-random...
Google simply refused to fix the issue and settled their own lawsuit over it.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/16/nexus-6p-early-shut...
So which is better for the consumer? A phone that was never fixed or one that was?