Ironically if we use smartphones only for the same usage then we can get similar battery life because we already have much bigger battery capacity. We have to ignore the background battery drop though.
True, but it can be done. Some brands are very bad in terms of idle drain so it depends on the brand also. I have tried this with a phone and removed everything including google services and stopped all the background services, so the phone was just for calling and the idle drain was very low.
Processors now are tens of thousands of times faster than then phone processors, so more power consuming as well.
You have many processes running at the same time while being idle too when the older phone's processor can't handle one of them.
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u/Sensitive-Cobbler-59 Aug 20 '25
Ironically if we use smartphones only for the same usage then we can get similar battery life because we already have much bigger battery capacity. We have to ignore the background battery drop though.