Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
With the last version of the Android P Developer Preview released, we're quickly heading toward the final build of another major Android version. And for Android P—aka version 9.0—battery life is a major focus. The Adaptive Battery feature will dole out background access to only the apps you use, a new auto brightness scheme has been devised, and the Android team has made changes to how background work runs on the CPU. All together, battery life should be
batter(err, better) than ever.To get a bit more detail about how all this works, we sat down with a pair of Android engineers: Benjamin Poiesz, group product manager for the Android Framework, and Tim Murray, a senior staff software engineer for Android. And over the course of our second fireside Android chat, we learned a bit more about Android P overall and some specific things about how Google goes about diagnosing and tracking battery life across the range of the OS' install base.
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(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday August 03 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)
Perhaps you should look for a Android One device. I hate recommending purchasing new phones, and am not terribly fond of Android, but at least Google has recognized the problem you describe and is doing something about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One [wikipedia.org]
If I were shopping for a phone I would look hard at the Mi2 Lite. Yes I'm paranoid about privacy with a Xiaomi device, but Android One mandates vanilla Android, so there all better? And really, what phone manufacturer do you trust?
https://www.banggood.com/Xiaomi-Mi-A2-Lite-Global-Version-5_84-inch-4GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-Snapdragon-625-Octa-core-4G-Smartphone-p-1315269.html?rmmds=search&ID=224&cur_warehouse=HK [banggood.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 03 2018, @07:43PM
Some devices permit firmware development
Google provides a list of suitable devices that has never been updated since 1.0
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]