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Sorry, I had some more ideas, but my smartphone
Top 10 Ways to Save Battery Life on Your Smart- ran out of power while I was typing. Seriously, how
phone did battery life become a joke?
10. Play a tune inside your head but keep your head- Let me give you an example. I put a brand-new
phones plugged in—just so you can still look cool. Android phone on my nightstand with about half
a charge left before I go to sleep and set the alarm.
9. Turn off push e-mail and manually sync each 6 a.m. rolls around and I happen to wake up. The
time you open your inbox. Then try to guess how alarm was supposed to go off 15 minutes ago! Did I
many new messages will arrive. Fun! set it to p.m. by mistake? Nope, the device was just
dead. This is not progress.
8. Keep all phone conversations under 15 seconds.
They’ll get the gist. (You: “How are the kids?” Her: Today the smartphone wars are all about who has
“Good.” You: “I got offered that promotion!” Her: the fastest dual-core processor, the biggest and
“Great!” You: “But we’ve got to move tomorrow.” highest-res screen, and the sharpest camera and
Her “What?!” You: “Talk soon!”) camcorder. But what good are all these whiz-bang
features and horsepower if you need to reach for
an outlet by lunchtime? For me, a true super phone
7. Check into places by just yelling to everyone in the is a device that will get you through most of the day
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establishment that you’ve arrived. Then proclaim on a charge.
that you’re the mayor.
This is what passes for normal now. Last week, I
unplugged a Motorola Photon 4G phone at 6 a.m. I
Printed with
used the device intermittently during my commute
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(mostly for listening to music with the Spotify app) fers up to 9 hours of talk time. But on our battery
and then during breakfast when I got to the office to test, which involves continuous web surfing over
read a few online articles. By 10 a.m., I had already 3G/4G on 40-percent brightness, the device lasted
used 40 percent of the battery. That’s pretty sad, but 6.2 hours. That’s a huge difference.
most smartphones I’ve used in 2011 offer similar
endurance. I do have to give Apple credit. In addition to talk time
and standby time, the company’s site lists Internet
The good news is that Android phones have power use time for the iPhone 4 (on 3G and Wi-Fi), video
saver modes that you can engage to save precious playback time, and audio playback time. And sure
juice. In this case, I had Nighttime Save on, which enough, its 3G web usage claim is in line with our
stops syncing data after 15 minutes of inactivity results. We saw about 7.5 hours, slightly better than
during “off-peak hours” (10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.). the 7 hours advertised and the 5.8-hour average
But I could have been more aggressive by selecting for phones we’ve tested. Still, we need more juice.
Maximum Battery Saver, which stops syncing data
after 15 minutes of inactivity at any time. HTC and What I want to see is smartphone makers pushing
Samsung offer similar settings. But none of this the efficiency envelope as much as they are when it
changes the fact that battery technology simply isn’t comes to features and sheer speed. Maybe it will take
keeping up with everything else getting crammed a whole new approach to the way smartphone ope-
inside phones. rating systems handle apps that constantly update in
the background. Or maybe it will take new display
technology, such as screens made using photovoltaic
cells that sip energy from ambient light. Whatever
it is, I look forward to the day when a phone maker
brags about endurance instead of gigahertz.
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It certainly doesn’t help that most carriers continue
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numbers get inflated versus real-world use. For ins-
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