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Possibly this is due to the larger screens being primarily Android, which had/has worse power management than iOS. I'm out of the loop on the current state of t
by runako 13y ago
Possibly this is due to the larger screens being primarily Android, which had/has worse power management than iOS. I'm out of the loop on the current state of the relative power management between the two, so this may have changed in the last year or so.
But anecdotally, my friends who carry Android phones keep their chargers nearby in their purses/briefcases.
- Zak 13y agoCurrent Android devices with smaller screens almost universally have less powerful hardware. A slower CPU, slower GPU and smaller amount of RAM will consume less energy. They also tend to have lower pixel densities, which usually mean higher light transmission (with LCDs) and therefore less energy spent running the backlight. There's also less area to illuminate.