Samsung's New Phones to Go All Day with One Charge
A whole day without whipping out your USB charging cable or plugging in your phone in the car.
As the months and years go by, smartphones are becoming increasingly powerful, bigger, and capable of more. However, one problem that never seems to go away is battery-life. Most smartphones won't last the full day with anything above light usage and with dual (and soon quad) core processors fast becoming the status quo, it seems the days of unplugging in the morning and not worrying about charging again until you get home in the evening are over. However, Samsung is fighting to give users powerful phones with lasting battery-life and says anyone that purchases one of its new handsets will see a difference.
Speaking during a CES interview with CNet, Samsung's VP of Product Innovation, Kevin Packingham, said that the company's goal is for smartphones hitting the market this year to last an entire day on a single charge with moderate to heavy usage. "When you wake up to when you go to bed, we don't want you feeling anxiety about your battery life," he's quoted as saying.
Packingham said that while the company plans to move to bigger batteries to help alleviate battery problems, that's not the only step it's taking to lengthen battery-life. Samsung is also planning to optimize how the phone uses battery. From altering how often the phone searches for WiFi to changing when it uses the 4G radio, the hope is that better optimization and a bigger battery will give average users better battery. However, Packingham admitted that power users were always going to have issues with battery.
Samsung didn't give any indication as to the sizes of batteries we can expect in its upcoming handset but we're hoping the rumored Galaxy S3 and its 4.6-inch display will benefit from the company's efforts to offer more time away from the charger.
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One day on a mobile; something we rely on, is pretty rubbish. I get roughly 2 days out of mine.
But instead of advancing our battery technology, it seems we're just changing the hardware they're powering...
Batteries need to improve, either we have tomorrow's smartphones too early, or smartphones have evolved faster than batteries can
One day on a mobile; something we rely on, is pretty rubbish. I get roughly 2 days out of mine.But instead of advancing our battery technology, it seems we're just changing the hardware they're powering...
2 days he says hah! ive Seen optimus ones last a week under perfect 2g conditions and used for light talking. Now the same phone used to listen to about 3-4h of mp3 and browsing on the comute to work, wont last the day. I avrg 7-8h of battery life with the ammount of talking i do. Your 2 days dont realy suggest that smartphony of a usage. My old k750 still gets about 4-5days with moderate mp3 and talking.
iCrap is sure to sue since we all know genius Jobs invented the battery after travelling faster than the speed of light.
Batteries do need to improve, we need the next jump in technology - something which apple has a patent for.
My galaxy nexus will last a full day - two mates had the nexus one which required charging. another friend has the galaxy 2 which he can have on for a full day and another two have the iphone 4S which can last the full day. This is all with regular use but not over use (games for a example would kill a battery pretty quick).
AMAZING, my HTC Sensation 4G goes 2 days without charging.
I still laugh inside when I see all these portable gadgets people have complaining about battery life. My dumb phone lasts 3 full days without charge, fits comfortably in my pocket, and it doesn't break easily.
my real requirements are 16 hours so i can charge it before i sleep. btw in 1-2 years batteries culd be 2 times the power. and if you implement the intel magnetic cpu to pull att almost nothing and go to a 3" screen you shuld be able to last a good 7 days of alot of use.
My HTC-Amaze 4G (T-Mobile) gets about 18 hours if I use it a little, 10 hours if I actually want to talk on it.
I can remember my cell phones, before they were smart, getting almost a week on a charge. But I'll take the hit in order to do the things I want to be able to do on the run. Just hope ICS will add an hour or two.
AHAHAHAHAH
OR HERE IS A THOUGHT-------GET AN IPHONE DUHHHHHHHH!@#@!#$%@#$%
SIMPLE CONCEPT
SORRY ALL ANDROID PHONES SUCK
I still laugh inside when I see all these portable gadgets people have complaining about battery life. My dumb phone lasts 3 full days without charge, fits comfortably in my pocket, and it doesn't break easily.
So, where do you park your horse and buggy?
The text in this picture is in Danish, but anyone who knows Android knows what the figures mean: http://i583.photobucket.com/albums [...] wnload.jpg
Yes that's right 3 days and 17 hours on my Xperia Mini Pro - with 3G/Wifi enabled, background downloads enabled, screen brightness at 60% and several network-hawking widgets.
My old HTC Desire gave me 1½ day if I didn't touch it at all
To all people saying their smartphone easily lasts 2+ days, did you read the article ?!
"to last an entire day on a single charge with moderate to heavy usage."
What is irritating is people who choose to use cutting-edge technology and then complain about some aspect like battery life, as if somehow it is owed to them. This is the behavior of spoiled children with no appreciation of the amazing things that are afforded to them.
Smartphone battery life sucks on every phone.
Period.
iPhones, Androids, whatever. And the bigger the screens get and the faster the CPUs get, the worse it is.
How to improve battery life: use CyanogenMod. I get > 36 hours of medium usage per day before I get to 40% battery on my Epic 4g. I got ~~ 10 hours before I ran to the charger on stock.
If they end up being D size I'm sure the ladies will be pleased.
I need my 240 battery - $240 for 10minutes extra talk time!
I charge my iPhone 4 maybe 2-3 times a week. Although no heavy usage, it still provides decent power for my daily usage.
dumb phones ftw.
thats funny. the battery on my Nexus S lasts more than 4 days. i guess samsung got someone else to make them and just slapped there name on it
Well my Droid X runs for 5 days on average before I recharge it. I shut off all the crap I don't need and all the tracking crap I don't want.
there was a time when phones lasted a week on a single charge... nostalgia goggles on
there was a time when phones lasted a week on a single charge... nostalgia goggles on
Back then PC-games were developed for pc's, music wasn't ruined by the loudness war and Apple was insignificant.
Those were good times
The text in this picture is in Danish, but anyone who knows Android knows what the figures mean: http://i583.photobucket.com/albums [...] wnload.jpgYes that's right 3 days and 17 hours on my Xperia Mini Pro - with 3G/Wifi enabled, background downloads enabled, screen brightness at 60% and several network-hawking widgets.My old HTC Desire gave me 1½ day if I didn't touch it at all
Butt look at the charge graph it goes from almost 10% to 80%~. My phone will last a long time as long as I charge it before it runs out too...
Butt look at the charge graph it goes from almost 10% to 80%~. My phone will last a long time as long as I charge it before it runs out too...
The counter is reset when the phone is charged, the rise on the graph is probably due to me ending a phonecall or something similar. As soon as you unplug your charger, all counters are reset.
I have a desire and lasts around 24 hours but I miss my Nokia E63 if i use it for 3 or 4 short phone calls a day It lasted me 7 - 10 days.
I don't doubt these claims and really the battery life is perhaps the largest problem when it comes to smart phones. If this problem is solved it doesn't just mean convenience for consumer but will make them more suitable for gaming and other activities really giving more reason to buy them. I think it is amazing to see how fast smart phones evolved to what they are now and show no signs of slowing down.
As soon as I get into WiFi range with my iPhone, it IMMEDIATELY connects. This has always disturbed me, because there has to be some kind of scan going on to look for networks constantly. How much freakin battery is being used for these scans?
If they even made the phone wait 30 seconds per scan, it seems like it would save a lot of battery. Also things like not activating 4G (or even 3G in my case lol) until you open the web browser could be implemented to also help save battery.
really depends how you use your phone. On days i only use it to text and call, i still have half the battery left. But if i start playing games and going on the internet, its dead by the end of the day
Jeez, this makes me scared to buy an Android phone. With my BB Bold 9650, I *never* have to worry about battery charge - I'm still at 80% by bedtime. In a pinch I can go 2-3 days straight without a charge. Granted, I'm not watching movies and calculating pi all day, but still...