When it comes to a mobile phone battery,
Battery Life — That is the word to look out for. Not Battery capacity. Not the huge mAh numbers that the mobile phone companies advertise. And I will tell you why.
Remember my post on processors where I explained that some processors are not as energy efficient as others? They take up more juice than others to perform the same tasks.
The same applies for a phone display, for the RAM, for the Operating system and even some Apps. They can drain out the battery.
Just like how some people drain us out emotionally.
So, one standard that we can count on is the battery life.
And as always, there are many people out there who run different mobile phones with the same set of tasks and see which phones last longer. In a lot of cases, there are phones of 7000 mAh battery capacities which did not last even as long as a phone with 4000 mAh.
One thing to look out for, is that when companies release flagship phones — they aren’t usually as battery efficient as their older but established phones.
So if you want mobile phones with batteries that last longer, flagship phones aren’t exactly the best choice.
While processors and RAMs have had major strides in development in the last decade, batteries have lagged in that front and the manufacturers have made up for this with . . . *Drumroll*
Yep! Chargers as we muggles call it. (The tech people call it the charging circuit)
There are a lot of catchy terms out there when it comes to chargers.
Fast Charge, Quick Charge, Turbo Charge, Adaptive fast charging etc
They are all essentially the same thing and a lot of technologies have gone into developing the charging scenario to what it is today. Have you noticed that while the size of the phone is getting sleeker over the years, the sizes of the adaptor and the charging cables are getting bulkier? And why is that?
To push more power into the phone battery! If you can’t improve the battery, improve the way it gets charged.
Now I could go back to our School level Physics explaining Volts and Amperes. But I do not want to drain you out and I end with this: Fast Charging is superior to Regular Charging. Choose wisely.
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