02-09-2014, 01:15 PM
(01-09-2014, 03:35 PM)Toms306 Wrote:(01-09-2014, 01:01 PM)SRowell Wrote:(01-09-2014, 12:12 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Why can't they make phone batteries that actually last? I can do 6 hrs of WiFi and videos on the laptop without killing the battery...yet about an hour and a half of just forums on WiFi on the phone!
It is a few years old now, but wasn't much better new...and it sounds like they haven't got better since! I don't have any apps on either, just whatever came with the phone.
Tom its perfectly understandable... if you strapped a laptop battery to the back of your phone I'm sure it would last for a week. The phone battery is small and light so you can fit it in your pocket. It wouldnt be as usable if it was 3 times as big but lasted 3 days!
Anyway I leave mine on charge overnight and its plugged into the car whenever im in the car. It lasts a decent amount of time imo for what it does. Screen brightness and GPS are the main killers!
Its not that simple though, the laptop 'stuff' (technical term) is bigger/more powerful so will use a lot more fuel surely?
I don't use GPS, don't want the gov't tracking where I am.
Yes but the energy density will be higher if anything on the mobile phone unless you have a seriously specced laptop battery. The technology simply isnt there to have a quad core mobile phone with a high res bright screen to last more than a few days when the battery is new!