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> no real progress My cell phone consumes more power and stays on longer than my first phone is that not progress? I think it comes in slow increments and not
by sqeaky 11y ago
> no real progress
My cell phone consumes more power and stays on longer than my first phone is that not progress?
I think it comes in slow increments and noticing a 5% year on year increase in battery life is lost in the noise of devices that can consume half or double the amount of energy.
As for how easy it is to lose the battery gains in noise. Many stock cell phones can have their battery life extended by half again by removing all the vendor bloatware.
- acchow 11y ago> My cell phone consumes more power and stays on longer than my first phone is that not progress? Why do you think your cell phone consumes more power now? I remember my iPhone 3G getting really physically hot while web browsing. We measure battery tech progress in energy density, not how long your device will last (since a ton of other tech goes into your device using less power, like transistor shrinking for example. Or a javascript jit).
- sqeaky 11y ago> Why do you think your cell phone consumes more power now? Good question. The ratings I read before I buy them. At the time of purchase I knew that exact mAh it consumed and compared to previous phones. I blame the 7 inch screen, 3 different antennas and 3 extra processors that my older phone didn't have. EDIT - Grammar and wording.
- louithethrid 11y agoWell, ones mans history is another mens present. Returned from climbing to find that my android phone in the locker was hot like a brick from the furnace, every little bit of energy spend communicating through the em-cage that is the locker with the gyms- wifi-spot - for a upgrade. Also most prog-tech goes into not doing anything at all, if we can not avoid it. Send it to the server, sleep over it, reuse allready constructed objects of the same type- there is a whole world dancing to this tune.