Why low smartphone battery life could become a thing of the past
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- 03 Aug 2022
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Thanks to the demand placed by users today on their devices, mobile manufacturers have been forced to compensate with more features by compromising on the battery life of a smartphone.
High-consuming features of today’s smartphone batteries include the display and the brightness it’s set at, camera and video recording and apps, which strain a smartphone’s processor.
In brief, the Nokia 3310 (2000 model, not to be confused with the newer version released in 2017) featured a talk time of 22 hours, with a standby battery life of up to 22 days, in some cases.
The Nokia 3310 featured a 900mAh battery, while the average smartphone today has a battery capacity of between 3500mAh and 4000mAh, with premium devices featuring an even bigger battery.
While batteries and their charging technology are relatively safe today, we’ve witnessed some manufacturers fail in their quest for faster-charging smartphones, *cough* *cough* Samsung Galaxy Note7.
Announced in 2016, the ultra-premium Note7 was mistakenly engineered with a design flaw that saw scores of devices ‘explode’ while charging. While Samsung managed to shrug off the negative publicity around the smartphone with newer devices - the issue was a lesson to all smartphone makers.
Fast track to 2022, some smartphone manufacturers promise a battery life of up to a day with charging capability that can take a smartphone from 0% to 100%, or just less in a matter of minutes. Read More…
