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Why Does Battery Life Suck?

2011-12-22
hey guys this is Austin and today in use the video talking a bit about battery life batteries are a lot of devices that we use on a day-to-day basis whether it be a phone a tablet a laptop you name it now obviously pretty much any kind of electronic device that we use will draw power now for example if you have something like a desktop or a game system something that's plugged into a wall no big deal you can pull bat as much power as it wants as long as you can you'll pay your power bill it's no problem on the other hand portable electronics are pretty much entirely the mercy of their batteries and well sure there are some devices such as ereader they can actually last quite a while a lot of charge for the most part you're going to be constrained to a few hours before your battery hits zero if you take a look at how technology is advanced in the past 10 20 years you'll see the batteries really haven't done much for example in 1999 you could go buy a powerbook g3 from Apple it's going to have a 333 megahertz processor and yet still going to get about five hours of battery life contrast this was a brand new MacBook Pro you buy today and while it has a 2.5 gigahertz quad-core processor which is about a hundred times faster and yet you're not really going to get much better battery life well you can really trace it all the way back to the 1960s when Moore's law was invented basically what this means is that every 18 months integrated circuits in this case CPUs need to double in speed and this is actually happened pretty much consistently over the past 50 years every 18 months or so you see a pretty major job and everything is about twice as fast as it was 18 months previous and of course all this trickles down into phones tablets and pretty much all other devices we use for example if you'd open up the smartphone such as the iphone what you're largely going to see is a circuit board attached to a battery of course it still works is still a great phone and deep smartphones in general are still taking off at an incredible pace but just imagine if the battery didn't have to take up such a huge amount what else like it add more memory could be faster etc etc course every few months we hear about some major new battery breakthrough that's going to do this so it's going to do that but for the most part these things never really pan out but coming back to the here now there are definitely some tips that will help you improve your battery life today for example screens are one of the number one draws of battery life so it's not big deal to you just turn the brightness down a little bit same goes for closing onion applications for example something that's really not necessary like a live wallpaper can definitely give you a little bit more time I also highly rec that you calibrate your battery on a regular basis if you're not familiar with what this means basically what it is take your device can be pretty much anything with rechargeable battery and burn it all the way out until the device shuts off and then immediately plug it in and allow it to be fully charged up by doing this not only will it give you some more accurate readings but will also be very helpful for your battery life in the future anyway guys it's gonna be about it I'm very curious know what did you think about the video if you wanna see more like this that's be sure to let me a comment down below let me know let me to change anything or how it was because I can't my doing videos like this I think it's kind of fun if you enjoyed this video definitely sure to leave a thumbs up and if you want to be notified whenever I post them to video be sure to subscribe
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