Smartphone Battery Life Jumps 50% With Wi-Fi Scaling

By Douglas Perry

There is a new idea that could see the battery time in smartphones enhanced by more than 50 percent.

ZoomResearchers at the University of Michigan suggest that a reduction of the Wi-Fi clock during idle listening could give users more time with their phone.

Engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang said that smartphones, including the iPhone, spend up to 80 percent of their power-saving mode in idle listening state, which checks the network for incoming data. However, they also found that this idle listening mode often consumes just as much power as when the phones are fully awake. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: TOM'S GUIDE