Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.
The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.
I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.