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Battery life on smartphones is generally terrible, and everyone knows it. Here’s why, and who is trying to fix it.
Imagine a smartphone that charges completely in five minutes and lasts a full 10 hours before running on empty. Crazy, right? Toting along the charging cord is just another part of life with 4G streaming and a power-hungry screen.
Back in January, Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx offered the first real glimmer of hope for long-life batteries with the 3,300mAh ticker that dwarfed the battery in any other available handset — it ran for 19 hours in CNET’s tests, a longevity that hasn’t been reproduced since.
That leaves the question I get asked over and over again: why is it taking so long for batteries to catch up to all the other advances in smartphone technology?
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by Jessica Dolcourt September 3, 2012 6:00 PM PDT