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10 smart tips to make your smartphones battery last longer

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10 smart tips to make your smartphones battery last longer


Have you at a point in time yell against your smartphone as if its human? The smartphone tech industry is advancing at an incredible rate and coming up with interesting and gorgeous tech devices.

However, its sickening to see the battery as the lifeline of all these devices suffer yet without any improvement.The first generation of phones especially Nokia phones do last for days without without the annoying "battery low" alert.

Many Nigerians regret ever using the Blackberry models due to the fact that they go everywhere with their Blakberry phones charger so as not to go ffline. It was tagged the device with the poorest battery life in Nigeria and Africa.This poor battery issue can be attributed to advanced features in smartphones like the high resolution screens, cellular radio, Wi-Fi, GPS bluetooth and many other features that makes them smart and portable.

Pending the time smartphone batteries will start receiving some attention, here are a few great tips to help you conserve your battery uptime and lifetime.

 10 smart tips to make your smartphones battery last longer


1. Avoid performing a hard reset on your phone. Have been told a few times to rmove my smartphones battery while its still on by my network provider.

2. There are areas of low network coverage and if you happen to find yourself in such areas youd conserve your phones battery by turning it off or activating the "airplane mode".More batteries are consumed when your device radio-activity finds it hard to get quality neywork receptivity. Ensure you have quality network signal, you can do these with a cell phone repeater app.

3. Always keep your battery up and charged. Lithium-ion batteries are better charged often before they run dry. Its better to switch off your smartphone and get alternative means of charging once its lower than 25%.

4. Avoid putting your phone on vibration.Vibration in Phones triggers a mechanical force thats runs down battery easily. Mobile devices are meant to be closed to their owners as possible, so try keep your phones volume as low as you can hear.

5. Reduce the brightness, put backlight in quicker sleep mode. smartphones screen due to their high resolution are the biggest battery zappers, you can tweak the settings that your phones backlight only stays on for like 15 seconds or less.

6. Power off Bluetooth. Bluetooth is a radio-active device, it can easily run down your battery due to the fact it trys to find and maintain its signal for good performance. Only use bluetooth when the need be, you can use cable headsets instead of bluetooth.

7. Turn off 3G conections when youre not surfing the web. GSM To make phone calls and do any other activity on your phone you need the GSM network receptivity, when in areas of low network coverage or when not browsing turn off 3G.

8. Dont Use animations on your phone. Transition animations and in the wallpaper should be avoided as much as possible.

9. Get a portable solar or battery powered travel charger for your device, this will keep you up especially when youre in remote places.

10. Get extra battery and power banks. Alternative energy will keep your battery from running dry before the next recharge.

Some smartphone manufacturers like Sony and this Chinese company have begin paying attention to making batteries a lot durable. The future should experience something better in the industry.
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11 Laptops with the longest battery life per charge cycle 2016

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11 Laptops with the longest battery life per charge cycle

Irrespective of how rich the features and specifications of a laptop is, its demeaning if such laptop can holds its power but a few hours.

Were now in a 24/7 society where our scope of work and functions mare expanding everyday and most of this functions and activities are computer-inclined, there are times we go to meetings, debriefings, events and we forget our power cable as we hurriedly catch up to time.

In such scenario we need a laptop with reliable power backup independent of any alternative power source.

Amazingly, weve hand-picked 10 specification-rich laptops with the longest battery life per charge cycle. We were able to come up with these 10 by using the Laptop mag battery test. Each of these laptops was discovered to last longer than 10 hours on a single battery charge cycle.

Laptops with the longest battery life per charge cycle.



1. Lenovo ThinkPad X250


Uptime: 15 hours 20 minutes
Price range: $700 to 800


2. Lenovo Thinkpad T450S
 
Uptime: 15 hours 26 minutes
Price range: $800 to 900


3. Acer Aspire One Cloudbook
Uptime:14 hours 43 minutes
Price range: $200 to 300


4. Toshiba Portege Z20t
Uptime:14 hours 39 minutes
Price range: $1000 to 1150


5. Apple MacBook Air 13 inch
Uptime: 14 hours
Price range: $ $900 to 1000


6. Dell ChromeBook 13 inches
Uptime: 13 hours 25 minutes
Price range: $450 to 600


7. Microsoft Surface Book
Uptime: 12 hours 30 minutes
Price range: $1500 to 1700


8. ASUS X205 
Uptime: 12 hours 5 minutes
Price:$230 to 260


9. Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch with Retina Display
Uptime: 12 hours 4 minutes
Peice range: $1300 to 1500


10. Dell XPS 13
Uptime: 11 hours and 54 minutes
Price range: $800 to 900


11. Lenovo 100s ChromeBook
Uptime: 11hours 19 minutes
Price range: $200 to $250

source: Laptop Mag

We hope you find this post on 11 laptops with the most durable battery life useful as you prepare to buy your next gadget.

Tell us about the battery up-time of your laptop using the comment section.
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Meet the Outkiel K10000 smartphone battery that can last up to 360 hours 15 days

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Meet the Outkiel K10000 smartphone battery that can last up to 360 hours/15 days
The outkiel k10000 Android smartphone device recently went viral a few weeks ago due to its ground-breaking battery up-time innovation.

Meet the Outkiel K10000 smartphone battery that can last up to 360 hours/15 days

There has been an endless research to find the timely technological innovation can give us a better replacement of the use of lithium-ion batteries, since the future is not yet here how about we just use what we have to get what we need. So was the thought of the Chinese tech manufacturer, Outkiel.

This device is said to have outsmarted the bigger models with this big-battery-brainer. Its crammed with a capacitative battery 10,000mAh which was assumed to hold up to 4 times the battery of samsung Galaxy S6, and 550% the up-time of the iphone 6.

May be youve been thinking it will take this device to get charged? Amazingly, it only takes 210 minutes (3hrs.30mins) to get fully charged.

In a recent post we did before this tech discovery where we were helping our audience with simple tips to enhance their smartphones battery we explained that smartphone manufacturers have only been paying quality attention to upgrading the softwares and programs that run many of these devices but not to the power unit that sustains the real use of these devices.

The chinese manufacturer, Outkiel says they are committed to doing both. 

The Outkiel K10000 Android functions does not near premium devices like the iphone 6 and Samsung S6 which put it at a reduced price of $239.99 at gearbest.com. All orders are said to be shipped to 102 countries starting from January 30th 2016. For those who prioritize battery uptime to any other thing, the device might be a good buy.
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Part of a cars bodywork could double up as its battery

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Part of a cars bodywork could double up as its battery

Thanks to a new material being developed by Imperial Engineers and Scientists and European Union partners, including Volvo. This new material under-development is designed to be part of the bodywork of a car and could double up as its battery.

The material is capable of storing and discharging electrical energy, and it is also strong and light enough to be used for parts in future hybrid Vehicles, to make them ligher, more compact and more enrgy efficient.

The researchers have recently used the material to create a prototype car boot.


Souce: Imperial College, London

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Moto X using Motorola X8 chip better battery life 50 of competitors

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Moto X using Motorola X8 chip, better battery life 50% of competitors

As previously reported, the new Droid 3 smartphone, the Motorola Droid Maxx, Ultra mini and X8 is equipped with the new chip by phone genuine American self-development. And according to the most recently shared his Arshad Iqbal, vice president in charge of engineering, the super-
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