I was full sure I would see battery improvements moving to pixel. Given its their platform and their chipset, I dont understand why it is worse than the midrange samsung I had.
Like way worse, I struggle to get to the end of the day on days I dont drive.
Can anyone explain or do I have an issue.
My current pixel phone has a smaller battery then my previous phone. A samsung. It’s my understanding that pixel has always typically had smaller than the average battery. So even with the extra efficiency you are still charging roughly the same overall at best. The problem arises that efficiencies are only for certain tasks. When it comes to powering an OLED screen. That hasn’t gotten significantly more efficient. And so if you have a smaller battery but the screen is still your biggest overall draw. Your battery won’t last as long.
Is it OLED? That should be more efficient, especiallt given I use dark mode everywhere.
Only more efficient if your previous phone wasn’t oled. That’s the thing OLED for OLED if the resolutions/refresh rate weren’t wildly different etc. And OLED is an oled. And depending on your screen time that could account for a lot of battery burned. Of which the pixels often have less to start with.
Think of it like this, ignore everything but the battery. You have 2 identical screens. A large battery and a smaller battery. Displaying the same content, which screen will stay powered longer?
More efficient processors, memory, and radios are important. But the single biggest power draw on any mobile is the screen. So if you have heavy screen time it can effectively wipe out those other efficiencies.
Personally my last Samsung was an S20. It had an oled screen. Samsung flagships have since at least the S7. I have a Pixel 8 ATM also oled. I definitely have less overall runtime with the Pixel 8 even with the other efficiencies. I still like it though. Now that I don’t have Samsung constantly duplicating apps and trying to force them on me.
One of the same reasons Inleft Samsung!
Yeah, I totally get it. My previous was not an OLED. My refresh rate is standard. Its just a bad phone for battery and that is mind boggling.
Yeah going forward the next phone I get will either be a base model that I can tether other devices to or something running Linux natively.
With Google’s continuous vadering. Android is becoming less and less viable unfortunately. I’m not a fan of Apple for the same reason. It’s ridiculous how little you own the devices you buy these days oftentimes. All I want is something that is power efficient and completely mine to do with as I see fit. But they’ve turned one against the other.
I dont particularly care for apps or anything, just camera and nfc payments and some sort of projection for auto. Which is my remaining barrier.
That said I will move to linux next, I just dont care enough to be part of any of this any longer