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Why does one need more than a single day of heavy use? Is charging while you sleep an issue?

• JD557 9y ago
  What if you want to go camping, or go to a concert in a far away city (you can sleep on the train, but not charge your phone there), or crash in a friends house and you forgot to bring a charger (maybe they don't have a USB-C phone)? 2 days seems enough for most use cases, although I miss having phones with batteries that lasted for a week or more.
  • semi-extrinsic 9y ago
    We take our el cheapo Moto Gs camping. With everything except calls/texts turned off, and using them only a couple of minutes each day, they last about 4 days before we have to break out the solar power bank.
  • mrep 9y ago
    Why don't you buy a battery pack as those are rare occasions (don't need all that battery weight for day to day use) and batteries are cheap nowadays.
• dguo 9y ago
  I'd generally be happy with a full day of heavy use, but a phone that can last that long when it's brand new won't be able to do it 1-2 years later because of battery degradation after many charge cycles.
• khedoros1 9y ago
  "Need" is a strong word. It would be a luxury, in my case. I'd really like a phone that could take two days of heavy use, for the times that I forget to charge it the night before, and spend the next day constantly on the move. Or even my usual "Damn it, I have to get out of bed to plug the phone in..." Then again, everything that it does beyond talk+text is already a luxury. Why not wish for one more?