Energizer's P18K Pop Smartphone Boasts Maximum Power

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This smartphone offers 18,000mAh of power!



Read more about Energizer's P18K Pop SMartphone.

 

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Energizer super saiyan mode

 

[NeverBackDown]

Only people complaining about battery life are iphone users lol
Everywhere I go I see people "plugging in" there iphones. Never meant an android user who does that. I charge my phone once every day and a half a few times a week, never died on me.

 

[grec]

Depends a lot on what area you're in, you'll get much better battery life in places with good signal, while rural areas or really busy areas can tank it, my current phone does a full charge in about 20 mins so I just charge whenever I need usually every day and a half or so but for a festival or something it wouldn't last 14 hours away from a battery pack because of the signal issues from rural areas & millions of people simultaneously and stuff, even a 26800mAh battery pack can struggle to make a 4-day weekend(I assume this is basically designed as a festival/camping phone).

 

[looz]

I'm stoked about this new trend actually, I spend a sizable chunk of my summers on our cottage and chargers aren't exactly abundant.

 

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Depends a lot on what area you're in, you'll get much better battery life in places with good signal, while rural areas or really busy areas can tank it, my current phone does a full charge in about 20 mins so I just charge whenever I need usually every day and a half or so but for a festival or something it wouldn't last 14 hours away from a battery pack because of the signal issues from rural areas & millions of people simultaneously and stuff, even a 26800mAh battery pack can struggle to make a 4-day weekend(I assume this is basically designed as a festival/camping phone).

Actually you will get worse battery life in areas where there is good service coverage. 4G is a bigger strain on battery life than edge/2G/HSPA+

4G coverage and Roam like home means people consume more without a care. In rural areas where there is lesser technology your consumption will downgrade. Even basic calls.

What can increase battery consumption in rural zones are handsets that hammer the network with UL and GPRS UL requests towards the HLR regardless of if the HLR accepts the request or not. Bouncing between edge/2G/3G does very little.

 

[grec]

Most rural areas of the UK have 4G coverage regardless of where you go, infact you're more likely to lose 4G going into the inner city(New buildings blocking up old cells & the network not being updated quick enough for the rapidly changing architecture or similar) than to many rural areas I find, generally there is an increase in antenna consumption as distance from the cell towers increase though, which is why remote locations with 4G can drain battery life heavily, then obviously with festivals or whatever you're still sharing that network capacity with hundreds of k's of people even if you're over a hundred km from a proper city (About as rural as you can get in the UK) so you're getting tiny time slices of the network where transfers occur & everything takes longer so screen on time increases.

 

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Most rural areas of the UK have 4G coverage regardless of where you go, infact you're more likely to lose 4G going into the inner city(New buildings blocking up old cells & the network not being updated quick enough for the rapidly changing architecture or similar) than to many rural areas I find, generally there is an increase in antenna consumption as distance from the cell towers increase though, which is why remote locations with 4G can drain battery life heavily.

Not everyone lives in the UK though

we have 98% 4G coverage in Norway of which over half is rural and moutainous. When I test in rural areas we have far better consumption than in the city. Reason being is our cell towers are boosted to improve coverage. Leaving less of a task for the UE

The drain as you say when being far from an antenna is down to your phone (results vary) struggling to find a signal and therefore opting for a better one. This sends a new update location towards the HLR, if signal is weak, then it will try again. Some terminals will even boost their own power to try and improve the connectivity to the network.

You are right about inner city being more of a problem. But new buildings are not necessarily the culprit. And the RAT (radio access technology) can differ. It will vary from network to network as it can come down to the radio band employed by the network for a given RAT. Lower bands penetrate better. New buildings can obstruct but if the technology is in the 800Mhz region, often it doesn't pose a problem. Thick concrete walls however do, which means basements, silos, car parks, apartment blocks from the 80s/90s etc.

New buildings even employ piqo/femto cells now to boost signals throughout the building. It's designed for home and small business, but is a growing popular solution acting as a low powered base station.


Holy crap... I derailed this thread... sorry.

 

[WYP]

Back when I was in Uni, when I also had an iPhone (3GS I think), there was an area that I went through on the bus that took around 10% of my battery every time. Phone signal is very spotty around the Mourne mountains and moving constantly to new signal sources is a killer.

Thankfully things are way better now, but things are still far from perfect in some rural areas. At least these days there are no roaming charges, as before that became a thing we had to be very careful to not use a republican signal. That would cost a fortune. (Perhaps Republican Signal is not the right turn of phrase...)

 

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Back when I was in Uni, when I also had an iPhone (3GS I think), there was a town that I went through on the bus that took around 10% of my battery every time. Phone signal is very spotty around the Mourne mountains and moving constantly to new signal sources is a killer.

Thankfully things are way better now, but things are still far from perfect in some rural areas. At least these days there are no roaming charges, as before that became a thing we had to be very careful to not use a republican signal. That would cost a fortune. (Perhaps Republican Signal is not the right turn of phrase...)

10% from one bus trip? sounds like a killer phone.

 

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10% from one bus trip? sounds like a killer phone.

Not just a bus trip, a section of a bus trip. Takes around 2 hours to get from my home town to Belfast on a bus. Some areas of the mournes are total dead zones, so phones can spend a lot of energy just looking for signals. Things are a lot better now. 2011 was a different time.

 

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Not just a bus trip, a section of a bus trip. Takes around 2 hours to get from my home town to Belfast on a bus. Some areas of the mournes are total dead zones, so phones can spend a lot of energy just looking for signals. Things are a lot better now. 2011 was a different time.

little tip. If you know coverage is bad and battery is precious. Go to flight mode.

 

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little tip. If you know coverage is bad and battery is precious. Go to flight mode.

That's solid advice there. Can't really say it is a huge deal for me if the phone goes dead for a while TBH.

 

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That's solid advice there. Can't really say it is a huge deal for me if the phone goes dead for a while TBH.

Im on same page as you. But some regulars I see on way to work day after day are locked on their phone non stop.
And when we have a network outage or packet data goes down, I get spammed with messages when will it be fixed... its like their life is on the line.