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  • If Google can make a car that drives itself, affordable 100gbs internet access… It can improve battery tech.

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  • About time, that’s always my biggest problem with “flagships”… Crap battery life.

    Loving this s6, but I’ve already killed close to 50% of the battery in just 2 hours (of course that’s with close to 2 hours sot as I’ve been playing with it non-stop since I got it).

  • I guess that I’m the only one who currently has no issues with battery life. Yeah my older phones would struggle to make it through a day without needing a charge but now I’m unable to come anywhere close to killing my battery. I’m normally gone for 12-14 hours a day and constantly stream music, i play youtube videos for prob atleast 20 min a day, surf the web, make phone calls, constantly text, read emails, stream shows from my media server, and have my moto 360 attached to it and today for example I got home with 32% battery life with supposedly 7 hours left. I mean yeah having to worry about charging it once a week or whatever would be cool but then it would be like my xbox controller for example that i’d forget to plug it in when it needs a charge and would end up going dead,

  • they killed this project –

    Google Lab Puts a Time Limit on Innovations
    Mobile-focused projects get two years to prove themselves; hiring mostly outside experts
    By ALISTAIR BARR
    Updated March 31, 2015 7:55 p.m. ET

    The lab has killed projects, including an attempt to reduce the power used by mobile devices. The group couldn’t get the five-to-ten times improvement it sought and the effort was shut down after about nine months, according to Kaigham Gabriel, chief executive of Draper Laboratory Inc. and the former deputy director of Advanced Technology and Projects and the defense research projects agency.

  • Im just wondering what kind of test are they performing? To me it’s sad to see how far the mobile industry has come since the OG droid but batteries are still the same. You would think by now some progress has been made but to me not much at all.

  • It’s good to see the m9… But for some reason on my Verizon m9. I can’t seen to turn on battery saving mode. The option isn’t even highlighted for me to turn it on

      • I love it. It’s almost the best phone I’ve ever had. And I can’t believe how much I love sense.. Even over stock. It’s so thin and feels great. (I thought it would be too tall because I have big hands but my fingers sent that long.. But it’s not. And the sound is amazing. It literally sounds like music is coming from all around even behind you… I can’t even understand that. But yeah. It my second day with it and I can’t believe how much I love this phone. Not sure about battery life yet. But I’m gonna give it a few days to settle in.

        • ^this. Verizon M9. it took me a while to get used to the lock button on the bottom of the keys instead of being the top button on the side. Was slightly disappointed there wasn’t a silver/gun metal but the phone feels as premium as ever and sense is gorgeous. Sense (in my opinion) manages to improve over stock instead of bloating your phone and making it look like an adult toy. same amazing feel, very snappy, battery has been getting me through a day (today) with about 20% left. got the phone at 10:30am and i have been playing with it and theming it all day.

  • They could start by attempting to improve the idle power drain of Android (iOS is a ton better in this regard) and putting bigger batteries in the Nexus phones. Yes, we need improved battery technology, but there are obvious ways to improve battery life right now.

    • I agree. Actually Nexus devices are the worst at stand by battery life, Samsung has actually improved in this area.

      • My Samsung devices have been the worst of all my devices for power consumption, they are the worst

        • My LG G3 gets the best standby battery life of any phone I’ve ever had. Sometimes if I don’t touch it, it’ll still be at 100% after 4 hours off the plug. Watching videos though kills it almost faster than any other phone I’ve ever had in that regard.

  • Sadly, all Google does is make battery life worse every new nexus phone, and every Android update. They seldom deliver on anything they work on. I say this a a jaded fan of Android….

    • They seldom deliver on anything they work on?? Are you joking??? I agree with the battery thing but Google has done an amazing job with evolving android over the years and their google apps and services have also really improved over the years. Do you expect perfection?? Because that’s impossible, even Apple has had its share of issues on iOS 8 and almost every time they have sent out an update with a fix another issues raised. So far the memory leak seems to be gone on 5.1 on my Nexus 6. They still need to fix play services draining but besides that they have done well.

      • Sure, they’ve polished android up. But performance wise it still sucks. Needs better and better hardware, battery life has gone backwards. Google voice hangouts merging is horrible. Android TV lacks so much right now; no audio pass through, no dtcp-ip… I could go on and on about the the shortcomings of android, when you consider how much money and resources google has.

        I am a fan of google, hater of apple ( for their close minded, egotistical, and overall arrogance). But google could do a lot better.

        • Performance is horrible? What planet are you living on? Both my Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 perform extremely well. Battery life could be better on the Nexus 6 but calling it bad is not true, I get a full day with heavy use. I’ve also owned other OEM flagships and even devices like the HTC one, moto x 2013/2014 and Galaxy Note 3/4 and now the Galaxy s6 performs well. Lag and stutter is basically gone.

          Of course the iPhone 6+ will have better battery’s its only a 1080p screen and an app drawer you would have to have a horrible team of devs to screw something so simple as iOS optimization, when android has tons of different devices with different specs, hardware, as well as different software skins, considering all that Google and Android is amazing. You are taking Googles accomplishments for granted. If apple had to deal with what Google or Android did they would be a disaster. Just look at some of the issues iOS 8 has with app optimization for the bigger screens, it was actually far worst than android also there were glitch issues with 3rd party keyboards. You’re comparing a closed platform device to an open source platform. I think you are being too critical.

  • Battery technology has been improving, just not as quickly as the chip technology in our devices. This is because the processors and memory are still following Moore’s law, and they will continue until the problem of quantum tunneling prevents going any smaller in transister size. Whereas the advancements in battery tech are all based in experimenting in chemistry. I believe that we will soon see a breakthrough in battery tech that will significantly improve on what we have now.

  • “As you all know, battery tech is one of those areas that never seems to improve even though every other aspect in something like a smartphone has seen dramatic improvements over the years.”

    Absolutely…there is a lot of battery research going on right now however. Why? Because there’s a massive amount of cash to be made for whoever comes out with something better.

  • So interesting you put this article on here b/c I was just listening to Marketplace on NPR and they were talking about how phones are tech and batteries are chemistry and that’s why you haven’t seen battery technology move all forward all that much. To quote the chemist, “Battery tech is almost like being around a witch’s cauldron.”

    • Yeah current battery tech is like 50+ years old. There have been several articles that i have seen from different companies, some of which ive heard of and others i havent, that claim they have the new breakthrough and they figured out battery tech and this or that will be coming soon but we never actually see anything reach store shelves.

      I vote there is a conspiracy from battery companies or electric company or somewhere to keep batteries to a minimum so they need charges more often and unreliable so they will actually have a lifespan.

      • Not possible because the first one to break the “conspiracy” would make a ton of $$

  • I hope they manage to pull it off, because IMHO:
    1. nexus 6 battery life can be much better (considering its size)
    2. project volta was just a flop (though an improvement is evident with 5.1)

  • They can start by taming the battery suck that is Google Play Services…

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  • One thing will always be constant: Complainers.

    At some point we’ll see “weeks of onscreen time” and people complaining that they had to charge their phones during their vacation.

  • What happened to Project Volta? Like all news in this area, I’ll believe it when I see it

  • I think that super capacitors have the potential to be the next “batteries” if only because they can be charged “instantly” and discharged over time. I know tesla was looking into supercaps for a while.

  • universe exploded in to existence from energy source tinnier than the size of atom. so anything is possible and Sky is the limit. Good luck google

  • I hope the research team can provide some breakthroughs, although we probably wouldn’t see such products for 3-5 years.

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