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07-02-2014, 01:00 PM
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mWJSa95Isr8fwoyd5n.Csw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/android-robot-frankenstein.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/tests-show-battery-improvements-android-l-incredible-163851872.html)We’ve seen that battery life has became a huge factor when it comes to choosing a smartphone and Google has smartly made improving battery life a key goal-of its upcoming Android L release. Ars Technica decided to put Android L to the test and found that the same phone with Android L had 36% more battery life — or about two extra hours of-run time — than it had when it was running Android 4.4 KitKat. What makes this result particularly impressive is that Ars disabled the Android L “battery saver” feature that drastically cuts down on a phone’s power consumption by lowering its screen brightness and killing off background data once the battery hits 15%. This means that Android



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