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Cool, does that mean we can scale down the processor performance by half and still have a phone that is competitive, but has twice the battery life? OK, I know
by captainmuon 10y ago
Cool, does that mean we can scale down the processor performance by half and still have a phone that is competitive, but has twice the battery life? OK, I know speed and power consumption are not linear. I'd really love if one phone would skip a year of increasing CPU speed and thinness, but would keep the advances in battery tech.
- andruby 10y agoNo. CPU's in a phone are probably idling 99% of the time. The power usage for the full-performance and half-performance cpu when idling will be close to equal. The full-performance phone might even have better battery life because it can finish cpu intensive tasks twice as fast, returning to idle power draw faster than the half-performance phone.
- adambrenecki 10y agoApparently the A10 chip has two high-perf cores and two low-power cores, sort of like what ARM call "big.LITTLE". So yes, sort of.
- ksec 10y agoUnless you are playing games with it all day, Otherwise you want the Baseband Modem to be super energy efficient, or may be you some how mangically get the best reception signal everywhere. And the Connection is only 2nd energy drain, the first being Display. I am not even sure if MicroLED could improve much at all. But any energy saving in Display Tech would be huge.