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Originally Posted by KlaymenDK
Cough cough cough! I'm sorry, but I have to object. If you more or less have to run from power outlet to power outlet, doesn't that take the "mobile" out of the phone?  We expect reasonable battery life -- measured in days, not hours. Not all of us take the car to work, and not all of us work right next to a power outlet. And that's just work; how about a nice extended weekend out in nature?
I'll agree that modern phones tend to be more battery-hungry than older ones, and that modern phones tend to have touch screens ... but technically there's no connection between touch screens and batteries -- that's just comparing apples and oranges. More likely, the problem is that the devices require more hardware for the same experience; an interpreted OS platform demands a Gigahertz CPU, whereas an embedded real-time OS would run just fine on a measly 30 MHz.  |
Battery capacity did not increase as much as average power consumption. So it is only natural that battery life will be shit. Considering the devices do all they can to conserve power when they can, we have amazing battery lives (~2-2.5 days for me).
Now if the galaxy had a 3000+mAh battery in it, then we would be talking.
As a comparison:
My old P1i Sony Ericsson had a 1050mAh battery!! A
240MHz processor, small (and shitty compared to the galaxy) screen. And nothing special (UIQ 3 operating system though)
The galaxy has a two processors, one clocked at 500+Mhz, a much bigger and brighter screen, GPS, Compass, accelerometer a better operating system.
And yet, the battery is barely 1500mAh. One would expect it to be in the high 3000 mAhs if it followed the other hardware.
