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Samsung Bashes iPhone Battery Life, Calls Users 'Wall Huggers' in New Galaxy S5 Ad
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Battery life is so overrated
Seriously, this is the issue to pick on when you can go to Amazon and get a 1Ah mobile charger that is much more versatile and probably cheaper than a dedicated replaceable battery you carry with you just in case. Lets hope that battery also fits your fancy Samsung tablet.
Heres an example for less than $25:
https://www.amazon.com/Poweradd-tra...nkId=4VOYYLZGNPES5S66&creativeASIN=B00ITILPZ4
Seriously, this is the issue to pick on when you can go to Amazon and get a 1Ah mobile charger that is much more versatile and probably cheaper than a dedicated replaceable battery you carry with you just in case. Lets hope that battery also fits your fancy Samsung tablet.
Heres an example for less than $25:
https://www.amazon.com/Poweradd-tra...nkId=4VOYYLZGNPES5S66&creativeASIN=B00ITILPZ4
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Dude, don't come at me with that nonsense! If Samsung is just plain better, then why do they even need a "POWER SAVE MODE"! Power save mode is a cop out and you know it! Have fun with your Dumb phone, it can't do anything! LOL!
It's not nonsense. It's scientific tests from Anandtech.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7903/samsung-galaxy-s-5-review/5
And Power Saving mode exists as a useful feature. If I'm going camping or I forget to charge the phone for a couple days and it's dying.
Wow. 36% over crappy. That's pretty good. And I didn't know that Samsung was shipping their phones with developer builds now...
Yeah, right! Did you send me this message using 3G? I totally believe you! Like I said, why even have a power save mode if you phone is all that! With Power Save mode the guilt is written all over your face!
The GS5 has great battery life, so a 36% improvement is amazing. (Although it's the screens that use up the most battery so it won't really be 36%)
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Doesn't make any difference, the point is that Apple was still bashing a competitor.
This whole "debate" about battery life is ridiculous. The amount of people I've seen complaining about how crap their phone battery life is who hard game on the thing for an hour a day, have the brightness all the way up, vibrate on, wifi and Bluetooth on, constantly check Facebook etc, stream music and video over 3G.
That's some processor heavy usage.
Any personal computer with that amount of usage ALL DAY - EVERY DAY is going to have a serious strain on the battery. It's a marvel that the iPhone doesn't drain after 4hrs the way some people use it. There are no laptops even currently that you can even use for 24hrs - and they've far bigger batteries as an advantage.
It can be improved upon, but the main thing average non-tech Joe Consumer needs to know is the things/habits that eat battery and perhaps lay off them if they can't make a second charge in a day? Battery life starts with the user habits!
That's some processor heavy usage.
Any personal computer with that amount of usage ALL DAY - EVERY DAY is going to have a serious strain on the battery. It's a marvel that the iPhone doesn't drain after 4hrs the way some people use it. There are no laptops even currently that you can even use for 24hrs - and they've far bigger batteries as an advantage.
It can be improved upon, but the main thing average non-tech Joe Consumer needs to know is the things/habits that eat battery and perhaps lay off them if they can't make a second charge in a day? Battery life starts with the user habits!
That has nothing to do with it and is this your way of saying it's ok for Apple to do it but not Samsung?
Even if the battery life is better on that one model, aren't the "wall huggers" going to be users of most other phones, including lots of androids and lots of other samsungs? Pretending that only iPhone users need to charge suits the point they'd like to make, but it's not really honest. I wonder what the reaction to this ad will be from all the other android/samsung users with iffy battery life, I can see some being pissed that they have a phone they're constantly charging but feeling like the ad is saying their phone has a good battery.
You mean claimed 36% improvement. It doesn't ship to the public for months, at that point we'll see if the claims are true.
You mean claimed 36% improvement. It doesn't ship to the public for months, at that point we'll see if the claims are true.
Apple might not care, but you... wow you... you seem to care a helluva lot. You do realize these are nothing but cellphones right?
Power save mode is the stupidest feature ever! It is a cop out! Apps can't even run with it! It creates fragmentation for the expected feature set of the phone at any given time! Didn't you get the memo? Oh, your Samsung phone was in power save mode for the last 7 hours! LOL! Oh, and your girlfriend broke up with you 3 hours ago on Facebook, sorry but you are the last to know!
Phone released 7 months later with 80% bigger battery gets 20% more battery life. Not very impressive to me.
This. I was going to post about the same thing. Just because Apple shoves feel good crappy commercials down our throat every commercial break, doesn't mean their hands are clean in competitor bashing.
Ah Ah, I remember changing a battery once in my life on a Nokia 3310 back in 1998. But Samsung forgot to mention one important piece of information...people with iphones use their phone more than people with androids. So yes, we need to charge them more often.
This ad is funny. I have an iPhone 5 and my motto is "never leave home without a charger." Ever.
