How to save your smartphone battery

Increase Battery Life While we wait for the hardware development to catch up, the alternative will be to conserve battery life.

Without a battery charger or a spare battery with you everywhere you go, you'll have to make due with minimizing the consumption of battery juice.

Well, the thing is that repeated charging for certain kind of batteries eats up the battery volume.

Charge Your Battery Correctly Speaking of phone charging, there are generally two kinds of rechargeable batteries commonly used for smartphones: Lithium-ion, and Nickel-based batteries: namely Nickel-Metal Hydride and Nickel-Cadmium.

The battery capacity in NiCd batteries are reduced every time you recharge them.

NiCd batteries have longer life cycles i.e. they can be recharged more often than NiMH batteries before stop working.

Li-Ion batteries have the longest life cycle among the three types of batteries but they also need to be charged more frequently to maintain its original capacity.

To keep your battery lasting longer, find out more about the type of battery that your smartphone uses and maintain the appropriate charging strategy for optimum usage.

Still having trouble? If you still find yourself running out of battery life before the end of the day, plug into a charging bag or use an external battery pack such as Morphie's JuicePack to strap on some extra power for the road. When you first upgraded from a 'dumb' feature phone to your first smartphone, you were probably shocked at the poor battery life.

Put simply, even the best batteries don't have enough reserves to power big, bright screens along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and 3G. However, by following our advice and making a few changes to your phone's settings you should be able to extend its battery life by a good chunk.

These days there's a huge choice of portable USB battery packs, which you can use to give your smartphone's battery a recharge on the go.

Just as you're tackling big issues, handling e-mails, and anticipating that important call, you notice that your battery is quickly dying and you forgot your charger! Will you have enough juice to take the big call? Maybe - if you stop your phone's battery from draining.