Despite technological advances in recent years, most smartphone batteries still barely last a day. According to experts, this will not change in the near future.
Why is your phone battery so bad?
The battery is an important part of your smartphone, and while many devices have higher capacities, such as the new Moto G20 and its 5000mAh battery, it can often be difficult to make your phone’s battery last a full day without charging it. While smartphones have become more efficient in recent years, the technology used to make batteries hasn’t evolved as much, making it harder for users to get longer battery life.
“Battery technology really hasn’t kept pace with smartphones,” Rex Freiberger, a smart devices expert and CEO of Gadget Review, told Lifewire in an email. “Even though our smartphones are getting smaller because of the chips needed to power them with processing power, smaller batteries just don’t have the capacity to keep up.”
Improving the power a smartphone uses is a balancing act between making the phone’s software more efficient while also providing a battery with a large enough capacity to keep the device running for long periods of time. While it would be easy to simply stick a 5,000mAh battery in every new smartphone, many users likely wouldn’t be happy with the design changes this would bring.
