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Forgot one point: battery life The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single ch

Forgot one point: battery life The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single charge will rule the world of smart phones. Old cell phones could last 2, 3 even more days on a single charge. Battery life is currently the main thing lacking.

megablast 11y ago
There are already plenty of phones that last more than one day. Despite your belief, people don't care about them.
- jonesb6 11y ago
  Agreed, who doesn't bring there laptop/phone chargers anywhere where the intend to have even medium usage (airport, car trip, study session , etc).
egypturnash 11y ago
One day is kind of a sweet spot. Pick it up, go do your daily business, come home and plug it in to recharge, you're good. The chargers live at home unless you'll be gone for more than a day. More would certainly be nice but smaller/cuter/more powerful generally makes for a better reason to upgrade. Especially when you can just grab a battery you can throw in the bottom of your purse and use to recharge the phone a few times if you really need more juice.
zeveb 11y ago
> The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single charge will rule the world of smart phones. My OnePlus One lasts 2-3 at least. I've never let it run down, but there were a few days when I had its USB cable plugged in backwards (doh!) and was wondering why it didn't charge.
bcohen5055 11y ago
Phone manufacturers typically optimize around a 1 day use case. The battery takes up a significant amount of space and adding more than a day of charge at the expense of a thicker or larger phone typically doesn't play out well in the market. A perfect example is the correlation between screen sizes and the launch of LTE. At the time if you asked anyone they wouldn't have wanted a larger phone however carriers wanted LTE phones and the market wanted phones that lasted all day. At the time thickness was a fairly standard comparison so what happened? They sold you a bigger screen so that they could fit a larger battery without producing a thicker phone.
- bobajeff 11y ago
  I had a feeling 5"+ phones sizes had to do with carriers wanting to sell you more data. (Though I'd guessed it had to do with promoting movie streaming.)

megablast 11y ago

There are already plenty of phones that last more than one day. Despite your belief, people don't care about them.

jonesb6 11y ago
Agreed, who doesn't bring there laptop/phone chargers anywhere where the intend to have even medium usage (airport, car trip, study session , etc).

egypturnash 11y ago

One day is kind of a sweet spot. Pick it up, go do your daily business, come home and plug it in to recharge, you're good. The chargers live at home unless you'll be gone for more than a day. More would certainly be nice but smaller/cuter/more powerful generally makes for a better reason to upgrade. Especially when you can just grab a battery you can throw in the bottom of your purse and use to recharge the phone a few times if you really need more juice.

zeveb 11y ago

> The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single charge will rule the world of smart phones. My OnePlus One lasts 2-3 at least. I've never let it run down, but there were a few days when I had its USB cable plugged in backwards (doh!) and was wondering why it didn't charge.

bcohen5055 11y ago

Phone manufacturers typically optimize around a 1 day use case. The battery takes up a significant amount of space and adding more than a day of charge at the expense of a thicker or larger phone typically doesn't play out well in the market. A perfect example is the correlation between screen sizes and the launch of LTE. At the time if you asked anyone they wouldn't have wanted a larger phone however carriers wanted LTE phones and the market wanted phones that lasted all day. At the time thickness was a fairly standard comparison so what happened? They sold you a bigger screen so that they could fit a larger battery without producing a thicker phone.

bobajeff 11y ago
I had a feeling 5"+ phones sizes had to do with carriers wanting to sell you more data. (Though I'd guessed it had to do with promoting movie streaming.)