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LG: Quad-Core and LTE Will Kill Your Battery, But We’re Working On It
While it doesn’t make much difference to us poor 4G-less Britons, LG’s new quad-core flagship line is conspicuously missing any LTE models. Apparently the reason for that is battery drain – LG’s...
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Qualcomm’s Attempt at a Viral Ad Backfires Badly
In an attempt to show off the video and battery performance of a Snapdragon equipped-phone, Qualcomm sent one around the world to snap some footage from each of nine cities, totalling to two minutes of...
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Qualcomm Sees a Solution to Poor Battery Life In Changing How We Charge Our...
Poor battery life is a bitter pill we’ve all been forced to swallow in recent years; compromising the safe knowledge you can travel home from work while streaming Spotify and playing Paper Planes, for...
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The iPhone 5′s Leaked Battery Is Bigger, Taller and Fits Perfectly Inside the...
If you’re getting tired of seeing the purported guts of the iPhone 5, we feel for you. But it’s like following a biscuit crumb trail that might, possibly, hopefully lead us to some real semblance of...
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Mac Battery Life Looks Like It’s About to Get a Massive Upgrade
Battery life in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion kind of sucks. A lot. It’s very very bad, and was only made a little better with the 10.8.1 update a few weeks ago. But it looks like help is on the way. The Mac...
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Engineers Promise a Single Tweak That Could Double Your Phone’s Battery Life
One of the single biggest things that chews through your phone’s battery is a component called a power amplifier. It’s a vital piece of technology that turns electricity into radio signals — but now a...
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Is Your Windows Phone 8 Handset Randomly Rebooting?
The earliest of early adopters have now been using Windows Phone 8 for almost three weeks — and it seems that there may be a few teething problems. In particular, some users are reporting infuriating...
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Short Battery Life Sinks First Windows 8 Notebooks
Confusing dual-mode operating system, no Start button, counterintuitive swipe gestures? None of these things spells doom for Windows 8. What will kill Microsoft’s newest operating system is the abysmal...
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Has iOS 6.1 Nuked Your iPhone’s Battery Life?
By the looks of it, Apple’s latest and greatest iOS 6.1 update has broken quite a few things. Vodafone’s having issues, and apparently it’s destroyed the battery life of quite a few people’s iPhones,...
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7 Worst Battery Life-Guzzling Gadgets
There is a disturbing trend in the gadget world, and it’s that laptop, tablet and phone makers aren’t taking battery life seriously enough. Yes, having touch on a Windows 8 notebook is great, but not...
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The 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Kicks All Windows 8 Laptops in Battery Life Test
If your laptop can’t last long enough to get your stuff done, what’s the point of having a portable? The product testing gurus over at Which decided to see how the current generation Windows 8 laptops...
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What Battery Test Would You Like to Torture a Bunch of Smartphones With?
Battery life is arguably the most finicky heavily-argued part of the ‘phone reviewing process. Different reviewers try everything to try and get an objective battery life, from custom-built apps, to...
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Which Smartphone Has the Best Battery Life?
We’ve said it once, and we’re gonna say it again: battery life is the only stat that matters any more. Sadly, it’s also one of the hardest to nail down in a decent, objective manner. None the less, we...
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Intel Says Haswell Will Extend Laptop Battery Life by 50 Per Cent
Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 per cent. Intel’s Architecture Group VP Rani Borkar is on...
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How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way
Your smartphone is a minor miracle, a pocket-sized computer that can fulfill almost every whim. But none of its superpowers matter a bit if it runs out of juice. With removable batteries becoming more...
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All Those Open Browser Tabs Really Are Killing Your Laptop’s Battery
There’s a tonne of info on the web. You’re never going to read it all, but you want to, so your browser has fistfuls of open tabs waiting for that rainy day when you’ll want to read a two-month-old...
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Would You Buy a Phone With a 48-Hour Battery Life?
Of course you would, because these days battery life is the only spec that actually matters, but would you suffer marginally more chub to grab a beastly battery? Yesterday, Verizon in the US (yes, I...
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Apple’s Shiny New Chipmaker Could Give It a Major Battery Boost
Apple’s just acquired Passif, a wireless chipmaker that specialises in making tiny chips that require very low amounts of energy. The deal, it seems, happened sometime in the last few months, reports...
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10 Steps to Saving Battery Life on Any Smartphone
There’s that point around three o’clock in any office, when the call goes out. “Does anyone have a Samsung charger?” says your oblivious colleague, hunting round for a microUSB cable for his poor dying...
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The Smartphone Battery King is Crowned and It’s Not an iPhone…
You may well be religiously keeping to our smartphone battery tips, but there’s only so much juice you’re ever going to squeeze out of your blower’s battery pack. So which phone will give you the most...
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