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For me, wizardry would be to go beyond what any other manufacturer would do. No one is considering Android phones to be optimizing specifically toward battery l
by dwild 7y ago
For me, wizardry would be to go beyond what any other manufacturer would do. No one is considering Android phones to be optimizing specifically toward battery life and that phone was the cheapest of the cheapest, I paid 50$ for it, without any contract in 2012.
- taneq 7y agoWorld's pretty big. A one-in-a-million engineer is pretty damn special compared to the rest of us, and there's 7000 of them out there. Cheap-per-unit hardware can have paradoxically high development budgets since volume is expected to be so high. We probably all have slightly unrealistic how hard it is to design even a "crap" piece of equipment. It's like how non-software people can't fathom that it costs $50k to build a relatively simple phone app when MS Office only costs a couple of hundred bucks.
- jfim 7y agoThe problem is that this wizardry is not usually user visible, and doesn't have much of a correlation with the device price or operating system. If anything, it's even possible that the cheapest phone has the most engineering done on it to optimize the battery life, due to the fact that reducing the battery size (and resulting cheaper BOM) on a cheap device that has millions of units sold is worth the additional engineering time to reduce power consumption.