A great article in PC World by one Jack Loo of Computerworld Singapore expressed what I believe is a universal cry for longer lives for their smartphone batteries. As new smartphones are rolled out every other day, it seems (ok, an exageration, but not much of one) with increasingly more features - Wi-Fi, GPS, push email, 3rd party application support - we smartphone customers need better batteries in order to use all these features.
Smartphones are, understandably, on a fervent course towards becoming the singular indespensable piece of personal electronics. And I, for one, am sold. But the more I use my smartphone, the faster the battery dies.
The math is simple, smartphone makers. You want to compete for our hard-earned dollars, make sure that among the new and improved features of your next great smartphone device is a higher quality, longer lasting battery.
As the PC World article reports, the number 1 complaint 4,000 European smartphone users had with their handsets was battery life, and of 3,000 others surveyed in a different study, 2/3 would be more likely to buy a "mobile internet device" if it had better battery life.
Apple's done it once already, and look what it's done for the iPhone 3G. Need I (or Jack Loo) say more?
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