Engadget Pixel 3 XL unboxing

[J Dubbs]

My Moto x pure is close to 3 years old, and it hasn't lost any noticeable battery life from new. I've almost never had it go below 50% (doze on marshmallow worked awesome), and I mostly used the Moto voice/Google Assistant features with a Bluetooth earpiece so the screen was rarely on.

I turned it off then charged it to 100% every night, then unplugged it. I've done that with every battery powered rechargeable device I've had and never had to replace a battery yet.

Buut..... my wife charges her kindles all night every night, runs them down to wherever, and her retired kindles which I and others use seem to still have good battery life as well. And yet it's common to see guys complaining about killing their phone batteries in under a year :O

I suspect the companies are putting lower quality batteries in their sealed phones so that you have to upgrade sooner.......a 1000 dollar phone is much more profitable to be forced into retirement so you'll buy a new one versus a 50 dollar kindle ;-)

 

[ffejjj]

Anyone know who makes the screens for the P3xl?

 

[htc fan89]

Anyone know who makes the screens for the P3xl?

It's still lg, but it's improved over last year's

 

[ffejjj]

It's still lg, but it's improved over last year's

Yeah when the G7 came out with an LCD panel again and after what happened last year I was worried that LG would abandon OLED

My V30 has a great screen, it's actually my first ever OLED screen and I'm a convert.

Hopefully the added competition to Samsung (one of the best in the business) will help push prices down and quality up.

 

[cardboard60]

It's not charging it at night that's the problem, it's for how low you let it get before you charge it, and for how long. Some say that the best way to increase the longevity of your battery is to not let it get below 40-50%, and to not let it sit on the charger for extended periods, aka leave it on the charger for hours after it hits 100%. In fact they say to not let it actually reach the full 100%, instead pull it off when it hits somewhere in the 90-99% range.

When you let it get real low, and then charge to 100%, that's considered a full charge cycle, and batteries are generally rated for only so many full charge cycles. But if you keep it between 40-99%, it's not considered a full charge cycle, so that should in theory increase the lifespan of your battery.

I get what they're saying, but there are also other factors that limit a batteries longevity, like how fast the battery's get charged, how many amps are used, how hot the battery gets when being charged, etc. Heat isn't good for any battery, no matter if it's in a smartphone, a car, or even little AAA batteries. I haven't tried this enough to see a difference, mainly because I usually upgrade each year. But, it doesn't have anything to do with memory, but about the amount of charge cycles the battery endured.

Problem is if you use your phone all day, watching YouTube videos.
And talk and text on it.
How long is the battery going to last.