Whether you use your smartphone so much that you often end up walking into lamp poles because you’re so damn distracted, or you occasionally check your email throughout the day when you have some down time, you know that today’s ridiculously fast mobile computers that easily slide in the front pocket of your skinny jeans have absolutely atrocious battery life. Motorola did something about that problem by announcing the RAZR Maxx at CES last week. It looks exactly like the original RAZR, except that it packs a ridiculous 3300 mAh battery all the while the device miraculously stays less than 9 mm thick. Samsung also wants to do something about smartphone battery life, but in a much bigger way. In an interview done with Kevin Packingham, Vice President of Product Innovation at Samsung, he told C|Net that Samsung’s goal for 2012 is to make sure that every smartphone they ship will last until it’s time for you to go to sleep, and yes, that even includes heavy users.
How are they going to do that exactly? Simple really, they’re going to start shipping phones with bigger batteries and spending way more time tuning their wireless radios so that they’re not always checking for signal and what not. Considering Mobile World Congress takes place in a little more than a month, it shouldn’t be too long to see what Samsung has up their sleeve. Something tells us that Samsung will use the latest in chip manufacturing technology to make more power efficient processors, and the same can be said for radios. As for screens, OLED is the way to go if you want to be frugal with power, and Samsung is likely going to go all out with the advanced screen technology over the next 12 months, shoving it in not only their mobile phones, but in their laptops and televisions as well.
[Via: Engadget Mobile]