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Android has slipped past Apple's iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time, in terms of online usage. Figures from Net Marketshare show that devices powered by Android were detected browsing the web more than iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices running iOS throughout July 2014.
Android usage grew from 43.75 per cent in June to 44.62 per cent in July, while iOS usage dipped from 45.61 per cent 44.19 per cent. Coming in a third place after iOS and Android is Java ME, which provided 4.19 per cent of mobile and tablet web access in July, followed by Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system, which brought in a tiny 2.57 per cent. Microsoft Windows Phone 8 operating system managed just 1.87 per cent, with BlackBerry next up at 1.21 per cent and Amazon's Kindle Fire OS taking a 0.64 per cent slice.
Android runs on 85 per cent of handsets sold compared with iOS just 11.9 per cent.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Tuesday August 05 2014, @11:19PM
Sounds like the entirely reasonable tradeoff that'll keep me in the Android world. If third party apps are draining your battery, you've got a pretty simple solution if battery life is your concern: uninstall the apps.
In any case, while I'm not sure of any other devices offering this feature, the HTC One M8 has a pretty nifty Extreme Power Saver feature that can be turned on, turning your smartphone down to the functionality of a mid-90s brick phone, with even better battery life (reasonably up to about a week and a half on a single charge). While it won't do much to help you when you're actively draining the hell out of your battery (such as by playing Ingress...), it will ensure your device isn't draining in your pocket while you're doing nothing at all (without leaving you off the grid in terms of phone and SMS).
Until I see a phone that can have the gps, bluetooth, data, and the display turned up and on all at once for 8+ hours, I can't say I'll be impressed by much of any device's internal battery life anyway. The external battery I carry leaves me covered until then, and freeing me up to focus on more important things (like being able to install apps that the device manufacturer hasn't explicitly screened and approved).
(Score: 1) by skater on Wednesday August 06 2014, @11:32AM
Except for one problem: Which app is doing it? It's usually difficult to tell.
Also, I have some apps that I use rarely but don't want to delete because I do occasionally use them (for example, Pandora). But they are constantly running a process in the background. What does that process do? Why is it running? Why does it need to be running when I'm not using Pandora? How do I know it's not constantly scanning my address book, schedule, and websites I visit and sending updates back to Pandora for some reason? And why would only the Android version of Pandora need to do this? iOS gives users far better control of apps and their permissions.
(Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Wednesday August 06 2014, @06:31PM
Sounds like the entirely reasonable tradeoff that'll keep me in the Android world. If third party apps are draining your battery, you've got a pretty simple solution if battery life is your concern: uninstall the apps.
So you then have a more useful phone in the iPhone that still has all those 3rd party apps. And you haven't fixed the problem as the iPhone still has longer life for a given battery size than Android.
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