Sentences with phrase «battery hogs»

It now shows which apps are causing the huge strain on your device's juice, and lets you prevent them from being battery hogs.

According to the company, QHD panels are useless, mainly because they are battery hogs, and secondly, because the human eye can't really distinguish between a QHD and FHD display unless it is looking at it from proximity.

ZenFone AR also has a 3,300 mAh battery - decent, considering AR and VR are known to be battery hogs.

But which apps are battery hogs?

Android is a battery hogging OS but there's a significant difference in battery performance between the HTC Sensation and the EVO as well as the LG G2x and EVO 3D.

The Exynos 5 Octa processor powering the Tab S provides a snappy and fluid experience, though it's been known to be a bit of a battery hog at times.

It's a battery hog, but can work for watching certain apps or showing off some photos from your phone.

The black bezels of the 10 and the slightly - curved glass further accentuate this fantastic panel, and from our tests detailed in the battery section of this review, it's also not a battery hog (more below).

It's horribily unfortunate since chrome is a battery hog on the MacBook line.

If you're a battery hog, Ultra Power Saving Mode is for you!

All these stripped down features also make Facebook Lite consume less of a battery hog.

Because universal apps are designed to run on mobile devices, my Surface Pro 3 consistently gets several hours more battery life with Edge than with Chrome (though that's a notorious battery hog).

Basic resource management goes a long way, and since your display is almost certainly the biggest battery hog no matter what device you're using, lowering its power intake will improve battery life across the board.

Samsung will deploy Tizen on all of its smartwatches because Android wear is a battery hog.

The reason we'd like to see this phone transition from Android Marshmallow to Android Nougat is it may fix the phone's biggest battery hog: phone idle time.

And because it's not much of a battery hog, the sacrifices for using it are rather insignificant.

Despite being the most popular desktop browser in the world, Chrome is still a notorious resource and battery hog.

It is important to mention here that an app with a high percentage battery usage does not necessarily mean it is a battery hog.

Not exact matches

So, while the new touchscreen smartphones look great and have fabulous screens, they tend to be power hogs and hence have shorter battery lives.

If you power it the Snugabear with batteries, be prepared to change them regularly as this swing is a power hog

DETROIT — While electric vehicles are hogging more than their share of the limelight at the auto show here, Toyota Motor Corp., the world's leader in hybrid - vehicle sales, remains cautious about the future of battery - powered vehicles.

The trunk capacity is 7.1 cubic feet with the top down, enough for our photographer's assortment of camera bags, tripods, and lighting gear, but the battery and flat - tire repair equipment hog some of the space.

All 4.3 inch phones have less than ideal battery life and I can't imagine how much of a power hog it would be.

«Hmm, crappy Android apps are crashing our device, draining battery and hogging resources.

This prevented Cell Standby from hogging all the battery but had the unfortunate effect of making the YouTube application unusable.

(The PlayBook is probably going to need all the battery - capacity it can get, as well, since Flash 10.1, mentioned above, is a notorious battery - hog.)

I think HedoneDesign does a great job at balancing both to give their fans a theme that doesn't hog your battery and resources yet still offers the graphics, quality, and attention to detail we're all looking for.

While owners of Amazon's kind of lame Kindle Fire have been able to flip their devices for years they've also had battery - hogging, full color tablets designed to do a lot more than just read ebooks really well.

Since green power is intermittent, it would take at least 10 times the rated amount of «green» energy to displace just one equivalent unit of 24/7 fossil energy because your so - called 100 Watt solar panel delivers zero Watts at night and batteries are heavy toxic $ energy hogs.

Following a long tradition of hog choppers, Mr. Vogel has replaced the gas engine with ten car batteries.

In the past few years, I've stuck with it, even as it became a memory hog, unstable and a major drain on battery life.

For instance, we set ours to automatically turn on Wi - Fi when we get home and to turn off syncing and other energy - hogging features when the battery hits 30 percent.

It won't stop syncing your mail, but it will keep certain apps from running down your battery and hogging all your memory.

The Android System and Android OS can take some of the credit for the improved battery results, as they have been hogging a smaller percentage of battery life, according to the always - useful battery settings menu.

The AR apps and games do heat up the phone though and definitely hog a lot of battery.

Since both the phones were used as primary device along with the Airtel SIM Cards in them, it is clear that the Edge hogs up more battery.

The module works a lot like Sony's Stamina Mode in some ways, but it can also function on a per - app basis to help you tame battery - hogging apps like Facebook.

The Quad HD is much sharper than the 1080p display on the G2, but the higher resolution screen is a power hog leading to a shorter battery life on the G3.

Although you'd probably think that the battery - hogging Snapdragon 800 processor and dual screens would kill the YotaPhone's battery life, the 2,500 mAh battery easily made it through a full day.

There's no question that Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers you can get, but it's long been a resource hog under OS X. By simply avoiding it on the new MacBook, your battery could last more than three hours longer in between charges.

Higginbotham's report says that Apple is trying to reduce HomeKit's code base in order to hog less memory for small, battery - powered smart home devices.

In the past, Microsoft has given users a prompt when trying to install Chrome, published videos claiming that Chrome is a battery and performance hog, and even sometimes displayed ads inside Windows 10 as a way to promote Edge.

Biometric scanners aren't power hogs, so adding them to modern smartphones won't put additional strain on the battery.

This will not just save battery, but will also improve performance since the background processes and apps will not be hogging the RAM anymore.

But the issue of that smaller battery remains, especially given the presence of a brighter, more pixel - packed screen, which is always the biggest power hog with any smartphone.

If you're doing light Web browsing, you'll also want to stick to Firefox and Edge over Chrome (which is a well - documented battery - hog).

You can squeeze some extra juice out of the Galaxy S4's meager battery by enabling power saving features and disabling energy hogging features.

On the other hand, the Mate 8 packs a larger 4,000 mAh battery, and EMUI does a very aggressive job of letting you know what apps are being power hogs, with you also having the option to blacklist these in the optimizer, to help get that little bit of extra juice.

That means Pixel 2 XL users get notification dots, which operate similarly to badges in iOS, as well as alerts about battery - hogging apps, interface tweaks, picture - in - picture and limits to prevent rogue apps from using up your phone's resources while running in the background.

The company can optimize its OS for everything and SD 410 isn't a power hogging chipset, and despite all that the battery won't be enough.