“Two-thirds of mobile and personal digital assistant owners in a marketing survey across 15 countries said two days’ active battery life was vital…The report by marketing firm TNS Technology said that poor battery life on mobile devices was one of the main reasons people did not play more games, music and video on their devices more often.”
The article goes on to describe all the new features on mobile phones — and of course the power it drains. It’s nothing that can really be dealth with by content developers, but it does affect them…
Incidentally Medis Technologies will be touting its Fuel Cell Power Pack at CTIA. The press release claims each Power Pack is “expected to deliver the equivalent of 20 hours of talk time, or about five to six full charges of the battery, depending on the individual cell phone power consumption and battery type”.
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