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Bonovox
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On 2014-02-28 18:08:17, Tsepz_GP wrote:
Samsung certainly have one hell of a powerhouse once again, tops all new phones:
Benchmarking the Androids from MWC 2014
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Now what I'd like to see is how the battery life goes, Samsung did a great job with the GS4 and Note 3, but apparently GS5 has some brand new power saving tweaks:
Galaxy S5's stellar battery life might be due to Lucid Logic's battery saving tech
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Am afraid I would have to disagree with you there. The S4 battery is appallingly bad when I compare it to my LG G2. The S4 for me I would have to keep recharging with my heavy usage but never with the G2 
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hihihans
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We'll hear soon enough if Lucy Logic power saving is really working.
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Bonovox
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Lucy 
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aussieland1
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it is worth noting that LG G2 has a 3000 mAh battery vs 2600 mAh on GS4 so the fact that the battery lasts more on LG is not necessarily due to LG doing a better job with battery consumption ..... |
Tsepz_GP
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Aussieland
I was thinking the same, the G2 uses a much larger 3000mAn battery, and the newer Snapdragon 800 CPU which has better power saving than the Snapdragon 600 in the UK GS4, so it's a given that the G2 would provide longer life.
Anyway...
Samsung has once again gone for the very best SoC available at the time for the Galaxy S5, the Qualcomm MSM8974AC with the new eMMC 5.0 Interface, while Sony has gone for a slightly less powerful MSM8974AB with the older interface, this explains a hell of a lot, seems things haven't changed over the years:
Qualcomm: both Galaxy S5 and Xperia Z2 are powered by a Snapdragon 801, but here's the difference
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All this good stuff rolling in about the Galaxy S5 really has me thinking if I'm overreacting WRT it's RAM, as it seems Samsung have actually done an outstanding job.
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Bonovox
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@aussieland but LG have done a better job. Yes it has a larger battery but reviews said how great and long the GS4 battery was but it certainly wasn't. LG G2 uses Lithium Polymer not Ion plus it has a feature whereby when reading the screen and not scrolling it refreshes the screen less thus using less battery. Something like that anyway.
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Away
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Nothing can explain such a poor flagship besides profit margins. They've finally managed to copy Apple in the most annoying way yet. |
Tsepz_GP
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On 2014-03-03 19:19:00, Bonovox wrote:
@aussieland but LG have done a better job. Yes it has a larger battery but reviews said how great and long the GS4 battery was but it certainly wasn't. LG G2 uses Lithium Polymer not Ion plus it has a feature whereby when reading the screen and not scrolling it refreshes the screen less thus using less battery. Something like that anyway.
In your experience the GS4 didn't have good batt life, but me and many others enjoy good batt life, maybe you had a lemon?
Lithium Polymer isn't a major thing, Sony Ericsson phones, and some Nokias used LiPo batts to. The screen Power Saving feature you describe sounds like something that Samsung introduced with the Galaxy S3, where Display Power Saving lowers the displays refresh rate:
http://www.ekoob.com/extend-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s3-11308/
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aussieland1
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@Bonovox
my point was that with LG having a larger capacity battery you can't really make a fair comparison.Also it is worth noting that S4 uses an amoled screen so if you used yours mainly for web browsing then that will affect the battery life. I was very happy with the battery life while i had mine admittedly i was not a heavy user like you as i tend to have more than 1 phone. However the battery would last a day easily.
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Miss UK
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The phone itself might of not looked so bad if Samsung
Used the coloured backing on the front but with that
Black front there's not a lot for me to say
Just seems like Samsung are more keen for it's customers
To carry huge slabphonez around every 12 months
What we really need is not huge screens but a way for company's
To source better power to our devices lol
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More informations to feature 16MP Camera Sensor Cmos Isocell (1/2.6"), Side Touch, New Camera Modes and Effects 
http://www.sammobile.com/2014[....]-new-camera-modes-and-effects/
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Bonovox
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Whoopie doo 
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Galaxy S5 4K video shooting mode detailed in new video 
www.sammobile.com/2014/03/05/[....]ng-mode-detailed-in-new-video/ |
Tsepz_GP
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Samsung Galaxy S5 pre-registrations now number 300,000 at T-Mobile
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Posted: 2014-03-02 22:49
