Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Droid MAXX will boast an outstanding 48 hours of ‘worry-free’ battery life, according to the folks at AndroidCentral.
If true the MAXX will effectively boast double the battery life of any other high end smartphone on the market.
48 hours of ‘worry-free’
No smartphone rocks 24 hours of usable battery life. Most will last a whole day in between charges, but if left constantly active that battery drains real quick – generally anywhere between 4 and 8 hours, depending on what you’re doing.
Similarly, 48 hours of ‘worry-free’ battery is unlikely to suggest 48 hours of continual use. It’s far more likely that the number refers to a full two days of regular use between charges.
Even so, this would be huge. Battery optimisation on smartphones tends to progress just fast enough to keep up with the increasing demands of CPU power, screen size and quality, RAM and 4G LTE.
A full two days is the holy grail of battery life. A phone that lasts a day and a half is no use to anyone; you’ll end up spending a quarter of your time walking around with dead weight in your pocket. A phone that last for two days is of actual marketable use.
Is there demand?
We think there is. The MAXX is likely to be a bit chunky, but obsessing over thinness is so 2011. In 2012 and 2013 consumers have been far more interested in power, speed, and features, with a slender profile becoming less a focus.
A two-day battery life would be an amazing feature. It’d put Motorola well ahead of the competition in an area that’s been sorely overlooked for far too long.
Difficulties
Profile may have become less important, but the look of a device is still very central to its success. If the only way Motorola can give the Droid MAXX this huge power cache is to double the size of the battery then there may be a problem. Another way to do it would be to sacrifice some other hardware, like screen quality, RAM, storage, camera or CPU power. This would also be a downer.
On a positive note, not two months pass where we don’t hear about researchers testing a new kind of battery that doubles or more the power retention or charging efficiency of lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries. Maybe some of that science is finally paying off and making its way in to the mainstream.
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