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Samsung Aims to Improve Galaxy S6 Battery Life in Latest Update

Kellen April 16, 2015 128

How has your battery life been on your Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge? As you know, we considered each to have "average" battery life at best in our review. I don't think we are alone in describing it as that either. And while a number of you are reporting better...

DROID TURBO Will Have a 3,900mAh Battery

Kellen October 9, 2014 320

An image in a listing posted up at TaoBao, a Chinese shopping website like eBay or Amazon, just gave us the official size of the battery in the yet-be-announced-but-all-sorts-of-leaked DROID TURBO. We pointed out through an FCC listing that the battery in the...

Random Google 7-inch “Tablet” Shows Up at FCC With NVIDIA Chip, Tiny LG Battery

Kellen September 7, 2014 50

While we were busy flying around the country last week, checking out the new goodies from Samsung and Motorola, a reader of ours noticed that a "7-inch tablet" that is "powered by NVIDIA Tegra" and running an LG battery, stopped by the FCC under Google's ID....

Report: T-Mobile Phones Last Longer on Battery Than AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Counterparts

Kyle August 6, 2014 125

T-Mobile has added more customers in the past 15 months than the three other major carriers combined, but the cellular provider may be distinguished in at least one other, more important way. According to tests conducted by Laptop Mag, T-Mobile phones last...

Stanford Researchers Develop New Battery Tech That Could Massively Increase Capacity

Kyle July 29, 2014 68

While virtually every component that makes up a smartphone has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past few years, power tech has largely stagnated - the G3 may pack a mind-bogglingly high-resolution screen, but its maximum battery capacity represents the...

Yes, Verizon’s LG G3 has a Removable Battery

Kellen July 14, 2014 114

Shortly after Verizon's variant of the LG G3 went up for pre-order last Thursday, just as we said it would, potential owners of the device grew concerned over the idea that it may not feature a removable battery. I'm not actually sure where this got started,...

Android L Features: Battery Predictor Tells You How Long Until Your Phone is Charged

Kellen June 26, 2014 90

The Android L Developer Preview has only been available for a little over an hour, yet we have already gone hands-on with it. But after whipping through a quick preview, it's time to start really looking at the newest version of Android. What's new? What has...

Moto X Reportedly Seeing Battery Drain on Android 4.4.2

Kellen March 5, 2014 337

Since receiving the update to Android 4.4.2, a handful of readers who own the Moto X (Verizon variant in particular) reached out to ask if we had heard of others experiencing battery drain that wasn't there with 4.4. After poking around your regular Google...