Today's mobile phones, with a lack of 5000 mAh, are embarrassed to call themselves flagships. Although the development of mobile phone batteries has temporarily reached a bottleneck period, compared with the early years of smart phones, the capacity has increased several times, preliminary average calculation, about 200-300 mAh per year, the Android side is more aggressive, Apple is slightly conservative, but it is also steadily increasing.
So the question is, obviously the battery capacity is steadily increasing, why is the perception of battery life improvement not strong? The author thinks that there are the following reasons, I don't know if you agree?
1. Software is getting bloated
Don't think that bloated software only affects the speed and storage space of the phone, and the battery life also suffers. It is not difficult to find that a lot of software: such as Alipay, WeChat integrates too many "small" functions, you think that only one software is installed, in fact, you have installed countless small software through this software, all kinds of self-starting, associated starting, and permanent background are invisible killers of power.
2. The hardware has huge potential for power consumption
Although the battery capacity is increasing, the SOC process is also improving, but it can't stand the "toss" of other parts, the screen resolution only rises and does not fall, the size is getting bigger and bigger, the image hardware parameters, and the computing power requirements are getting higher and higher, not to mention that heavy game users can play the extreme performance of CPU and GPU in just one game, and the increased capacity can be said to be a drop in the bucket.
3. System optimization is difficult to put in place
Assuming that the battery capacity is constant, then manufacturers can only optimize battery life through OTA, but at the current speed of upgrading, manufacturers will invest their energy and financial resources in the latest flagship machines with higher heat and greater profit margins for the first time, rather than mid-range machines and old flagships that are difficult to adapt to when the heat subsides, hardware is eliminated, and it is difficult to adapt.
Moreover, even if the manufacturer has made great efforts to optimize the system, the room for improvement is limited, and it is impossible to optimize your original 5 hours of bright screen time to 7 hours.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, if the manufacturer optimizes the battery life in place, the new mobile phone will have no selling point.
4. The development of mobile phone battery technology has reached a bottleneck
It can be said that the battery, like other hardware, with the current technical conditions, to do a good job, is bound to increase the thickness, volume, weight, is undoubtedly a huge challenge for the mobile phone with every inch of land, so the capacity of each generation of squeezing toothpaste is slightly increased, which will not affect the feel too much, and can form a selling point, which can be regarded as finding a balance point.
To sum up, the battery capacity has increased steadily, but the perception of battery life improvement is not strong, there are hardware, system, software reasons, but more battery technology reasons, the development lags behind other configurations, new technology means huge investment in scientific research, trial and error costs, but the first to master the new battery technology, bring about a qualitative change in battery life manufacturers or will become a new benchmark in the industry.
Speaking of which, do you miss the "removable battery" very much?