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Save your mobile phones’s battery while your searching the web – Blackle is the power-saving Google

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By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 9:01 PM

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Forget Qualcomm’s battery-saving tech patents for 3G chipsets, we’ve got a better, home-grown tech to save your mobile phone’s electrical juice. Next time you’re surfing the web and you find the need to hit up Google, try Blackle instead. Yea, we know, Google is the end-all-be-all for internet search, but Google’s all-white background can be terribly taxing on your battery – it takes a good bit of charge to display all that white on your mobile’s screen. Blackle‘s search engine does the same thing, but with an all-black background (seriously, it’s just Google with a “Black” theme) – keeping some of your battery’s precious electrons firmly planted on those lithium ions.

Of course, Blackle will also extend your laptop’s battery uptime so make sure to bookmark Blackle.com on your computer and  your handset.

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About The Author

Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • LosOutlandos

    am i wrong here or wouldn’t this make a difference at all, becasue the screen’s backlighting is on regardless of color? don’t lcd screens just “block” the light coming from the lamp? :shock:

  • Ryecatcher

    I think it would actually increase consumption on an LCD as more energy is used to display a black pixel than a white one.

    Of course, LCDs use a lot less energy than CRTs in the first place anyway.

  • Seth

    I find the other version Darkoogle.com is more easier to read since they uses green text just like the old days. Green text are more easy for our eyes and reduce eye strain.