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"The Pixel needs charging once a day, which is a little bit of a disappointment, but it charges really quickly." I'm not sure I understand this negative. I'd

by travv0 10y ago

"The Pixel needs charging once a day, which is a little bit of a disappointment, but it charges really quickly." I'm not sure I understand this negative. I'd think any problems caused by this would be easily remedied by just charging your phone while you're sleeping, when you can't use it anyway. Or is he saying that it needs to be charged once a day, even if you charge it overnight?

xyzzy123 10y ago
If you don't always sleep in the same place it means lugging a charger. It means you can't go to bed drunk and neccessarily expect your alarm to go off in the morning. It really just means that any time your life gets out of routine, your phone is probably going to die.
- travv0 10y ago
  Fair enough. In regards to the first point, though, you'd already have to carry the cable which I find to be more cumbersome than the plug itself. I wish he would've elaborated a little more on battery life, as there's a big difference between a phone that barely makes it from morning to night and one that can't quite survive until the night of the second day since charge, both of which would need a daily charging.
- SiVal 10y ago
  "Out of routine" is routine for frequent flyers. You never know when you'll end up spending the night in an airport transit lounge or you can't get into your hotel at the end of a flight around the world, or whatever. Or when driving or hiking through a somewhat remote area and something goes wrong.... When things go wrong, you need to make calls, put out fires, keep trying to reach remote towers using full radio power for extended periods. When things go wrong is when you MOST need your phone, so you need a battery that can continue to serve you a lot longer than it normally needs to on an ordinary day unless you can somehow be certain that for you every day will be an ordinary day.
  - tedunangst 10y ago
    Do frequent flyers not bring chargers in their carry on?
    - SiVal 10y ago
      Sure, but they're never guaranteed a place and time for a nice recharge.
    - gcr 10y ago
      Tell me. Where in LAX or SFO or LGA can I find an electric outlet? Some airports make them impossible to find, highly coveted, surrounded by the territorial and ferroucious Horde, oodles of macbook MagSafe and ipad Lightning cables eminating from the wall like thin withering tentacles of some white goop monster emanating from the power grid. Other airports lock the power sockets away behind "Employee Only" signs and caution tape, with menacing security guards patrolling the area should you even think about stealing those precious MWh from the institution. Still other airports have rows upon rows of power outlets in plain sight, but every single one of them is dead, disconnected, dying like your phone battery.
- tedunangst 10y ago
  It's a pretty sad phone if even a low battery isn't enough to idle through the night.
dictum 10y ago
> this would be easily remedied by just charging your phone while you're sleeping This goes well and according to plan until you go to bed really tired one day and forget to put your phone to charge. And then it happens again a week later, and then again... (This might be related to using your phone in bed)
j7ake 10y ago
It would be nice to have a phone that could survive a few days without charging. For example if you go camping for the weekend you can use your phone to take photos without worrying about battery.
- CydeWeys 10y ago
  I just got back from a three day hike through the Grand Canyon, and I took an external battery charger with me to recharge the phone. I took over 1,300 photos, and definitely needed the juice. 95% of the time, though, I don't need that much charge, and would rather have the option of carrying an extra battery charger with me only when I need it, rather than having a much larger, bulkier phone 100% of the time.
viraptor 10y ago
With wifi, bt, and mobile data on, I easily get 24h out of my pixel. (not xl) And it does doze state pretty well: ~8% charge drop overnight (that's around 1% per hour of complete inactivity) If you pay 3d games or use it constantly, of course you'll need to charge it sometimes. But for casual usage with standard basic apps, I sometimes forget to plug it in at night and it's not problem. https://i.imgsafe.org/cfad953cec.png https://i.imgsafe.org/cfad953cec.png
- jug5 10y ago
  I lose 1% overnight, what apps are you running in the background? 8% is huge.

by travv0 10y ago

xyzzy123 10y ago

If you don't always sleep in the same place it means lugging a charger. It means you can't go to bed drunk and neccessarily expect your alarm to go off in the morning. It really just means that any time your life gets out of routine, your phone is probably going to die.

travv0 10y ago
Fair enough. In regards to the first point, though, you'd already have to carry the cable which I find to be more cumbersome than the plug itself. I wish he would've elaborated a little more on battery life, as there's a big difference between a phone that barely makes it from morning to night and one that can't quite survive until the night of the second day since charge, both of which would need a daily charging.
SiVal 10y ago
"Out of routine" is routine for frequent flyers. You never know when you'll end up spending the night in an airport transit lounge or you can't get into your hotel at the end of a flight around the world, or whatever. Or when driving or hiking through a somewhat remote area and something goes wrong.... When things go wrong, you need to make calls, put out fires, keep trying to reach remote towers using full radio power for extended periods. When things go wrong is when you MOST need your phone, so you need a battery that can continue to serve you a lot longer than it normally needs to on an ordinary day unless you can somehow be certain that for you every day will be an ordinary day.
- tedunangst 10y ago
  Do frequent flyers not bring chargers in their carry on?
  - SiVal 10y ago
    Sure, but they're never guaranteed a place and time for a nice recharge.
  - gcr 10y ago
    Tell me. Where in LAX or SFO or LGA can I find an electric outlet? Some airports make them impossible to find, highly coveted, surrounded by the territorial and ferroucious Horde, oodles of macbook MagSafe and ipad Lightning cables eminating from the wall like thin withering tentacles of some white goop monster emanating from the power grid. Other airports lock the power sockets away behind "Employee Only" signs and caution tape, with menacing security guards patrolling the area should you even think about stealing those precious MWh from the institution. Still other airports have rows upon rows of power outlets in plain sight, but every single one of them is dead, disconnected, dying like your phone battery.
tedunangst 10y ago
It's a pretty sad phone if even a low battery isn't enough to idle through the night.

dictum 10y ago

> this would be easily remedied by just charging your phone while you're sleeping This goes well and according to plan until you go to bed really tired one day and forget to put your phone to charge. And then it happens again a week later, and then again... (This might be related to using your phone in bed)

j7ake 10y ago

It would be nice to have a phone that could survive a few days without charging. For example if you go camping for the weekend you can use your phone to take photos without worrying about battery.

CydeWeys 10y ago
I just got back from a three day hike through the Grand Canyon, and I took an external battery charger with me to recharge the phone. I took over 1,300 photos, and definitely needed the juice. 95% of the time, though, I don't need that much charge, and would rather have the option of carrying an extra battery charger with me only when I need it, rather than having a much larger, bulkier phone 100% of the time.

viraptor 10y ago

With wifi, bt, and mobile data on, I easily get 24h out of my pixel. (not xl) And it does doze state pretty well: ~8% charge drop overnight (that's around 1% per hour of complete inactivity) If you pay 3d games or use it constantly, of course you'll need to charge it sometimes. But for casual usage with standard basic apps, I sometimes forget to plug it in at night and it's not problem. https://i.imgsafe.org/cfad953cec.png https://i.imgsafe.org/cfad953cec.png

jug5 10y ago
I lose 1% overnight, what apps are you running in the background? 8% is huge.