There are extended battery packs, which if you don't mind your G1 being thick, is a solution.
On Jan 13, 4:43 pm, Mark K <[email protected]> wrote: > One solutions is to have a spare replacement battery with, they only > cost $25 and the battery can be changed in a minute, can't do that > with an I-phone. > > Mark > > On Jan 13, 4:31 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I've been thinking about battery life issues as a somewhat clueless > > new user and what strikes > > me is that there is between little and no debugging scaffolding to > > profile what affects battery > > life. > > > Currently there are some pretty high level guidelines: > > > 1) not turning on your android saves battery life > > 2) turning on your android, but turning off all of the networking saves > > battery > > 3) turning on 3g drains battery life > > 4) turning on wifi drains battery life > > 5) turning on the GPS drains battery life > > 6) turning on the screen drains battery life. > > > Unfortunately, these are pretty useless from a dev standpoint since > > they don't tell me > > *how much* it drains battery life so I can make intelligent tradeoffs > > against interactivity > > vs. battery life. > > > It would be really really nice to either have some numbers to work > > with, but much much > > better would be to have some sort of profiler-like utitity -- sort of > > a battery equivalent of > > gprof, say -- to guide us to making more battery friendly apps. I > > don't know about the > > rest of the developers here, but I'm pretty sure that not too many of > > us go about developing > > apps wondering if we can set the battery drain speed record :) > > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
