My Galaxy S5 Active, in Ultra Power Save mode would last 12 days according to it's in phone estimate. I was never able to push it in that mode the whole way through, but 2 days sipped about 10 percent of my battery when I tried, so I fully believe it was possible on that device. It downclocked the processor, turned basically everything off, like you said, and even lowered the display resolution and color to greyscale. I don't think I've seen a later phone than that with such a huge Ultra Power Saver.

I work in offices and people complain often about the brightness, and end up turning it down because it's overbright and distracting.

When presented with facts as to why he couldn’t call help, your only rebuttal is “yeah well /I/ dont think so”?

In case you don’t live in the area, the West Coast has many large expanses of land that have zero cellular service. Emergency SOS via satellite (be it from an iPhone or any other device) is one of, if not the only, direct ways to call for help in a place like that.

Dude could’ve died without the chance to send an SOS, I’ll give you that… but it’s totally ignorant to ignore why it’s invaluable to people who need it.

People don’t plan emergencies.

I can’t believe people still care about the galaxy S12345 or whatever the fuck number they are on this month.

“retina burning brightness” is for people using it in a bright room, like an office

its joever

>LG and partners are preparing to release gaming monitors featuring third-generation OLED panels, later this month

A shame their "new" OLED gaming monitor is still stuck with a 150nit SDR brightness and a horrid matte coating...that's a new generation MLA OLED seriously ?

Probably not. The electrochemical reaction exists if the phone is on or off, so you will probably see some savings even when using it, it just won't be as obvious

Same, I'd love the option to use my phone directly instead of Garmin

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I think the batteries for the S23 and S23+ are around 200mAh higher -- and assumedly there's going to be some sort of efficiency gains from the new chips in them. But I'd wait for reviews, I think.

> just over an hour from Sacramento

Not by wagon

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Most people don't keep phones longer than that.

Then he shouldn't be hiding in a cave while trying to make phone calls. Satellite SOS probably wouldn't work in there either. If he's dead and can't get out of the cave, neither feature is useful.

surprised he hasn't been banned yet tbh

But isn't that only for powered off devices?

And that is what?

Yeah and they are also cheaper, lighter, can be wall mounted, are less likely to create high frequency electrical buzzing noises, can be filmed... The list goes on.

CRTs have certain applications today, yes, consumer TVs is absolutely not one of them

Anyone who remotely cares about this sort of tech will already have a Spot beacon.

https://www.findmespot.com/en-us/

I would be willing to be my life on works better than the Apple SOS via Satellite.

I mean, it is ending. Just not as fast as people think. Eventually the sun will swallow up the solar system’s planets.

Better than nothing.

This was a crappy article; cleary written by an apple fan. the SOS via Satellite is nothing but a gimmick.

This is why I switched to iPhone. Haven’t been back to android since. The amount of background tracking from android apps is terrifying. The amount of details they know about you is obnoxious.