Anything close to 3,000 mAh is completely insufficient to power up a smart phone for any serious length of time. I had a Optimus G pro with the stock 3400 mAh and only got something like 6 hours before it dipped below 25% and 25% of 3400 is very ltitle. It basically means "run to the charger" before it shuts down at the worst possible time. It lived on the charger so much I wore out the USB port in the phone. Because I liked to have at least 50% at all times, which doesn't last long at all.
Got a ZeroLemon 9300 mAh cell, nice. It lost a little capacity over months, as any Li-Ion battery should, but I still get a solid day and night per charge. This is the battery smart phones need to come with. Maybe even more, between 10,000 mAh and 15,000 mAh. Because smart phones are basically mini-laptops now. They need to make the battery the size of the phone. Another benefit of ZeroLemon is that the phone is easier to hold now, being much thicker. There is nothing cool about smart phones the thickeness of a credit-card. Capacity is extremely low, they are slippery and hard to hold. Not a great idea from any angle.
Now G3 is coming out, with the increased pixel count and increased power consumption for sure, yet they only put 3,000 mAh cell in it. How inappropriate. How long will the runtime be before you are in the danger zone, 4 hours?
I think the low capacity and the 2mm thickeness is driven by the marketing departments. The engineering department will deliver a phone that can run for a week and be comfortable to hold but the marketing department will over-ride them and say, redesign it so it's paper-thin and runs for 4 hours so we can run commercials about how compact it is. The consumer is apparently dumb enough to buy it.
Yet there is nothing good about compactness. I want a 1990s sized device that does not need to be charged in the morning, lunch and dinner and overnight also.
The smart phone makers need to come up with 2 options, let's say "H" for high-capacity and "A", for "Armored", something water proof and protected against damage, much like Otterbox. I don't want an aftermarket "patch", but a build-in design around longest runtime instead of having to buy a device and get patches for it so it's adequate.
Got a ZeroLemon 9300 mAh cell, nice. It lost a little capacity over months, as any Li-Ion battery should, but I still get a solid day and night per charge. This is the battery smart phones need to come with. Maybe even more, between 10,000 mAh and 15,000 mAh. Because smart phones are basically mini-laptops now. They need to make the battery the size of the phone. Another benefit of ZeroLemon is that the phone is easier to hold now, being much thicker. There is nothing cool about smart phones the thickeness of a credit-card. Capacity is extremely low, they are slippery and hard to hold. Not a great idea from any angle.
Now G3 is coming out, with the increased pixel count and increased power consumption for sure, yet they only put 3,000 mAh cell in it. How inappropriate. How long will the runtime be before you are in the danger zone, 4 hours?
I think the low capacity and the 2mm thickeness is driven by the marketing departments. The engineering department will deliver a phone that can run for a week and be comfortable to hold but the marketing department will over-ride them and say, redesign it so it's paper-thin and runs for 4 hours so we can run commercials about how compact it is. The consumer is apparently dumb enough to buy it.
Yet there is nothing good about compactness. I want a 1990s sized device that does not need to be charged in the morning, lunch and dinner and overnight also.
The smart phone makers need to come up with 2 options, let's say "H" for high-capacity and "A", for "Armored", something water proof and protected against damage, much like Otterbox. I don't want an aftermarket "patch", but a build-in design around longest runtime instead of having to buy a device and get patches for it so it's adequate.
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