Every time battery technology improves, so too do devices? processors and displays, each requiring more and more juice to live up to its ever-increasing potential. The end result is that battery life has remained largely the same among smartphones and tablets despite their high-capacity power cells. But that doesn?t mean users are helpless to extend their devices? life.
With Carat, a free diagnostic app for iOS and Android, smartphone and tablet users alike can see what?s draining their battery and do something about it before they?re forced to run for the nearest charger.
TechCrunch explains:
Carat quietly takes measurements from you device, does some math, combines it with other people?s anonymized data, and sends back tips on if you should update your OS, kill or restart apps, and how many more minutes of tablet or phone fiddling you?ll gain.
Carat?s recommendations break down into killing off bugs and hogs. These usually aren?t ?bad? apps Energy bugs are apps that are sapping a lot more power from you than everyone else because they?re probably malfunctioning, so Carat tells you to restart or re-download them. For example, a notes app that uses little power for 95% of users, but it?s accidentally activating your GPS over and over.
Hogs are apps that just naturally use of ton of power or needlessly run in the background, like streaming music apps. Carat reminds you to shut them down, which is especially useful when you get that 20% battery remaining notification half-way through the day and you?d do anything to still be able to get calls and texts rather than have your phone die.
Sounds good to us!
Source: TechCrunch
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