Re:Battery life: Apple's solving for x
by bane on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:10AM
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My most recent phone, a Note 3, can go through fairly heavy all-day usage and end a late day at work at around 50%, which I think is pretty good. By the time I go to bed, and my long commute home listening to music on it, or podcasts or whatever, it's hit 30%. But I don't have battery anxiety with it for the first time since I last used a Blackberry (about 5 years ago).
If I use it sparingly, I can get it through a day and a half to 2 days. It sips power when in standby.
My last phone, one the other hand, a Nexus, barely got me to lunch before I had to charge, with a ridiculously extended battery in it. It was aggravating and made the phone adversarial, or like an infant that constantly needed attention and feeding.
Still, I'd welcome a 2-3 day battery life under normal usage. I'd be willing to have a phone twice as thick if that's what it took. The thinness doesn't mean much to me. My phone is already ridiculously thin. I have a flip-open case on it, and people mistake it for a moleskine notebook, but those are usually twice as thick as my phone and nobody really seems to mind carrying those around.
If I use it sparingly, I can get it through a day and a half to 2 days. It sips power when in standby.
My last phone, one the other hand, a Nexus, barely got me to lunch before I had to charge, with a ridiculously extended battery in it. It was aggravating and made the phone adversarial, or like an infant that constantly needed attention and feeding.
Still, I'd welcome a 2-3 day battery life under normal usage. I'd be willing to have a phone twice as thick if that's what it took. The thinness doesn't mean much to me. My phone is already ridiculously thin. I have a flip-open case on it, and people mistake it for a moleskine notebook, but those are usually twice as thick as my phone and nobody really seems to mind carrying those around.