and more. she was previously a senior writer at wired. ... read more contributor read more how to reduce the battery drain caused by your web browser your browser can suck up a lot of battery life if you’re not careful. tweak those settings to surf on your laptop longer. david nield...
In the days following the launch of Google’s predictive ‘Now’ feature now baked into its Google Search iOS app, some users complained of experiencing noticeable battery drain due the app’s process of accessing location data. Today, Google has weighed in with an official response to LifeHack...
regardless of how much you use it. That does mean that, in standby mode, I still notice a little more battery drain than I'd like. But at the same time, I can use the phone for nearly two hours straight (on
Fixed wifi hangs. Battery will drain faster, if you set "Wifi Sleep policy" to "Never" as that keeps the phone from suspending. Not even Lg could get this to work. Maybe fixed proximity sensor weirdness during call Add a RTL fix to webkit Known Issues Backlight on the keyboard and touc...
Battery drain is intense While those of us with petite wrists thank Google for making a smaller smartwatch, the compact size comes with a price. Battery life on the Pixel Watch is middling at best — and terrible if you want to use the always-on display. ...
The Moto X works well because it has a speech coprocessor, but that's a constant battery drain. Then you have screen, probably a motion coprocessor for running, maybe GPS and I wonder if they'll be able to get more than a day out of it. kevinof said: Love it. Some real...
Google claimed that it was equipped for more than 24 hours of battery life, a mark that we struggled to hit without religious use of Battery Saver mode. The Pixel 7a didn’t have to clear a high bar to show improvement, but we still had our concerns about how the Tensor G2 would ...
of the chip itself, rather than part of the software to be translated and executed on the chip. One of the most interesting parts of the chip is the Context Hub, which enables low-power ambient AI features like always-on display and Now Playing to run all the time without battery drain...
In the bottom graph204, GPS is used only when the location-based application is active, such as by being the focus of a graphical user interface. During these periods, the drain on battery is equivalent to the top graph, but these periods make up a relatively small portion of the device...
One way to overcome this challenge is for the user to wear a separate, remote microphone ensemble such as a headset or earpiece that is wirelessly paired to the mobile device. The drawbacks to this approach include the limited battery charge time of the headset or earpiece and the encumbrance...