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You know, I'm not a technology luddite, and I have a smartphone (iPhone), but I have to wonder about all those complaining about battery life. Your problem isn

by mantrax 13y ago

You know, I'm not a technology luddite, and I have a smartphone (iPhone), but I have to wonder about all those complaining about battery life. Your problem isn't battery life. Your problem is you spend many, many hours a day staring at that phone and depleting its quite reasonable battery life. What the hell are you doing that takes you all so much time? And what's with "last many days". I mean, don't you sleep? Where you sleep, is electricity not available? Honestly, I want to know. I don't think you're "some kind of direct-current junkie", I think you're a smartphone junkie.

DannyBee 13y ago
I have to agree. If you take phone, turn off cell data, leave on wireless, and put in drawer, it should already last for quite a while (days, if not weeks).
stinos 13y ago
This is too one-sided, so here's another angle: ease & peace of use. As in: not constantly having to worry you won't be able to use your phone because you forgot to charge it. I don't have a very smart phone, use it mainly for calls and messages. The thing barely lasts a couple of days even if it gets hardly used. So relying on it for emergencies for instance (no fixed line) means having to take really good care of it. I for one would be much happier with a bulky smartphone that would have weeks of battery life and doesn't require paying that much attention to battery life. (I know maybe I can get a plain cell phone that lasts longer, but that would mean having to give up some handy features of the typical smartphone) Your problem is you spend many, many hours a day staring at that phone nope quite reasonable battery life let's call that an opinion. I also have a music player that gets used hours every week and lasts months. There's no smartphone in the world, even when you'd turn of the screen and all services except music playing that can do that, so I don't consider it that reasonable. Where you sleep, is electricity not available? definitely not always, no. And then we're back at the reliability part. You see, the reason I originally bought a cell phone, long before there was such a thing as a smart phone, was because we used to take trips to rocky areas in the middle of nowhere to do trials riding. One day a guy broke his leg, open wound etc. In no condition to be moved by us to the car, let alone be moved sitting in a car. Having no cell phone meant it took over an hour to get help there. Luckily he didn't bleed to death. So then we decided a cellphone would be of use. Well, if the battery isn't dead of course.
samastur 13y ago
My Nexus S (which admittedly is not new, but battery is) lasted about a day if I used it a bit and up to two days if I turned the cell data and wireless off and didn't touch it. Wifi, location and bluetooth were turned on strictly on need basis and for as long as I needed them. A bit means turning the screen on for a minute 3-4 times a day and not more than one call lasting <5 minutes. I do sleep, but not always somewhere I could plug it in (camps, cheap hotels without plugs...), but to be honest even if I can, I don't particularly like tending to my phone like it was some kind of tamagotchi.
slazaro 13y ago
I don't like this kind of argument. The user wants a certain experience, and the hardware isn't able to provide it properly. Your answer is to change the requirements, to tell the user to behave differently? The product should be shaped after the use, not the other way around.
- JohnTHaller 13y ago
  I think it's more along the lines of 'this phone is designed for a certain type of use case' and the user is trying to use the smartphone as their primary PC and media device, which it's designed to complement, not replace.

by mantrax 13y ago

DannyBee 13y ago

I have to agree. If you take phone, turn off cell data, leave on wireless, and put in drawer, it should already last for quite a while (days, if not weeks).

stinos 13y ago

This is too one-sided, so here's another angle: ease & peace of use. As in: not constantly having to worry you won't be able to use your phone because you forgot to charge it. I don't have a very smart phone, use it mainly for calls and messages. The thing barely lasts a couple of days even if it gets hardly used. So relying on it for emergencies for instance (no fixed line) means having to take really good care of it. I for one would be much happier with a bulky smartphone that would have weeks of battery life and doesn't require paying that much attention to battery life. (I know maybe I can get a plain cell phone that lasts longer, but that would mean having to give up some handy features of the typical smartphone) Your problem is you spend many, many hours a day staring at that phone nope quite reasonable battery life let's call that an opinion. I also have a music player that gets used hours every week and lasts months. There's no smartphone in the world, even when you'd turn of the screen and all services except music playing that can do that, so I don't consider it that reasonable. Where you sleep, is electricity not available? definitely not always, no. And then we're back at the reliability part. You see, the reason I originally bought a cell phone, long before there was such a thing as a smart phone, was because we used to take trips to rocky areas in the middle of nowhere to do trials riding. One day a guy broke his leg, open wound etc. In no condition to be moved by us to the car, let alone be moved sitting in a car. Having no cell phone meant it took over an hour to get help there. Luckily he didn't bleed to death. So then we decided a cellphone would be of use. Well, if the battery isn't dead of course.

samastur 13y ago

My Nexus S (which admittedly is not new, but battery is) lasted about a day if I used it a bit and up to two days if I turned the cell data and wireless off and didn't touch it. Wifi, location and bluetooth were turned on strictly on need basis and for as long as I needed them. A bit means turning the screen on for a minute 3-4 times a day and not more than one call lasting <5 minutes. I do sleep, but not always somewhere I could plug it in (camps, cheap hotels without plugs...), but to be honest even if I can, I don't particularly like tending to my phone like it was some kind of tamagotchi.

slazaro 13y ago

I don't like this kind of argument. The user wants a certain experience, and the hardware isn't able to provide it properly. Your answer is to change the requirements, to tell the user to behave differently? The product should be shaped after the use, not the other way around.

JohnTHaller 13y ago
I think it's more along the lines of 'this phone is designed for a certain type of use case' and the user is trying to use the smartphone as their primary PC and media device, which it's designed to complement, not replace.