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Skeeter

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...remember when mobile phone battery life used to be measured in this ancient, massive form of time quantification?

A while back at work we had a Nokia mobile for on call where the standby time was measured in months!

I'm now needing at least 2 charges a day to make it through the waking hours, and I have wireless chargers scattered across the South of England so that my phone can get more juce every time I put it down. And frankly I've had enough.

My N5 is amazing, I love it... right up until about 1pm when it beeps at me that its down to 15% charge! I'm considering getting a new battery, but thats not really going to help. Its not much worse now than it was new.

Is there any hope? Are there any top end phones out there that don't assume we all live next to a wall socket 24/7? It makes a mockery of the 'slim and light' models phone makers strive to produce if I've got to carry a damn portable charger with me all day too!

Argh! /rant
 
So I should buy a phone capable of wonderous things, and then not use it?

I don't even have to go back that far. My previous phone (HTC Sensation) lasted a day easy, and my Motorola Milestone before that once went a whole weekend in a field without a charge.

Large, high def screens seem to be the culprit, and that isnt something you can simply 'not use'.

It's not even like you can swap batteries any more either :(.
 
Amos91 said:
Nexus 5 is renowned for poor battery life.

How much on screen time do you have to get it down to 15%?

With the Nexus 6 I rarely get home from work below 50%.
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About 2 hours screen on time coupled with 90 minutes Spotify will eat well over half my battery. So that's me down to under 50% by 9am...

Terminal_Boy said:
Phone batteries used to last days because making and receiving phone calls was all that you could do with them.
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Phone technology has moved on, but surely battery technology has too?

The strive for massive screens and thinner phones has ruined it. I would gladly have a slightly thicker and heavier phone to get more battery life. But unfortunately battery life appears to be very low on any manufacturers priority list, and carrying portable chargers about has just become the norm and expected :(.
 
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