Modern TV sets
sit on standby for around 20 hours a day, consuming up to 10 watts.
What's more is the fantastic ability to buy things from the PS Store and have them download on your PS4 while
it sits on standby under your TV.
It got us through an entire day full of audio streaming, Google + ing, downloading, and calling after several days of
sitting on standby with Google Sync on.
Not exact matches
And the range of caves runs from the old
standbys of sex and alcohol and other drugs to TA (Transactional Analysis), TM (Transcendental Meditation), TV (before whom,
on an average, we stand,
sit, lie, eat, and drink an unconscionable and unbelievable number of adult hours per week), TF (touchy - feely in dual or group encounters), TZ (try Zen), TS (take Sominex), or even, in some circles, TJ (take Jesus - in this sense an icon distantly derived from Jesus Christ), and literally scores of others.
We saw very good
standby and regular - usage time
on the Charge - after a full day of
sitting around, its battery life didn't drop much.
Move around the body and you'll find that things match the Fire HD 8 in many ways, with 3.5 mm headphone socket, volume controls, Micro-USB and the
standby button all
sitting on one end, with a covered microSD card slot
on the side.
The power /
standby button
sits next to the volume rocker
on the top of the device; there's a Micro-USB connection, along with a 3.5 mm headphone socket
on the left and over to the right is micro-HDMI, to hook up to a bigger display.
The device's power /
standby button, which also operates as the IR blaster,
sits on the top of the device, and while the placement isn't horrible, the button could have been raised a bit more to make it easier to press.
The power /
standby key
sits on the right side of the device, the volume keys
on the left, and the bottom sports the 3.5 mm headphone jack, USB Type - C port, speaker grills and S Pen slot.
Move around the body and you'll find that things match the Fire HD 8 in many ways, with 3.5 mm headphone socket, volume controls, Micro-USB and the
standby button all
sitting on one end, with a covered microSD card slot
on the side.
Their batteries are almost the same size, and in my experience they offer about the same battery life from day to day — the only real difference being the Galaxy S9 +'s inability to settle down and just sip power when in
standby, where it just continues to drain at a faster rate than the Pixel 2 XL will if it's just
sitting on a table ostensibly not doing much.
Moving around the sides, the power /
standby button
sits above the volume rocker
on the right side of the device, while the top features a center - mounted 3.5 mm headphone jack — a design element we've come to expect from Motorola devices.
In terms of physical controls there aren't many: the aluminium
standby button
sits in the middle of the right - hand side and we still have mixed feelings about its positioning, but this being a 5 - inch handset, it feels slightly better placed than it did
on the smaller Xperia T. There's a volume rocker beneath this.
There is a
standby / power button
on the top along with the 3.5 mm headphone jack, the volume rocker
sits on the right - hand side and the left offers the Micro-USB - which also supports MHL if you want to use it as an HDMI output.