<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the biggest concerns about mobile devices, especially smartphones, is how quickly they consume battery. It is mostly due to the fact that the hardware on smartphones today require a lot of power and with the increase in the demand of faster hardware and data speeds from consumers, device manufacturers are finding it tough to cope up to the battery demands. They have been pushing software and hardware updates faster than we can imagine but somehow there hasn’t been a revolutionary change or a breakthrough that would make a smartphone run longer, without having you to run to your charger after every few hours.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Qualcomm, the well-known mobile processor maker, recently announced that it has yet again updated its line of processors for smartphones and these new processors will be more battery friendly thank to Quick Charge 3.0. This is an update to the previous version and the company claims that it will help in charging devices from 0to 80 percent in about 35 minutes compared to the current generation of smartphones and tablets. While this sounds great, it still doesn’t solve the problem. One might be able to charge their mobile devices faster, but what about the rate at which it loses charge?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Google is also struggling to make its mobile OS to hog less battery. It announced a brand new feature for its upcoming update, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, called Doze. With this feature the OS will calculate the hours when the smartphone or tablet is not used for longer periods, especially while a user is sleeping, and hibernate the device to save power. Google also claims that the devices with the new Doze feature will get an improvement of up to two-times, which theoretically means you could get a whole day of extra battery. This might sound like a feature that could make the hardware more battery efficient but again it will not be path breaking.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Probably looking at the core of the problem might solve the battery woes, which is the battery itself. Smart devices need a battery source which can hold its charge for longer periods. With so much innovation happening around, it seems weird at times as to how smartphone makers are still struggling to come up with a battery that could go on for maybe a week. Or is it that the manufacturers are holding back for certain reasons? The world needs a change and we can only hope that we won’t have to wait for long.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p> </p>
