http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/In 80s any other leds but red cost a bundle. Even now the blue leds are the most expensive, but then days they costed 100$++.

Allways have been wondering why manufacturers insist using blue power leds. Red ones use the least current for logiht output. And if the led is only for showing id doesn't matter what color it is.

Blue power leds started as a novelty, then as a fashion. Now I'm waiting for them to go out of fashion so we start to get the old red power leds back, which use the least eneergy. Even that matters in battery devices.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Makes me wonder if a black wallpaper would increase the battery life of this phone...!]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
I may be wrong, but: I believe that used to be true in the CRT days; however, LCD screens use more power displaying black than white.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Ahh, how noobish of me. indeed, you are correct. My mistake.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
What does LCD have to do with the Nexus One?]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Doubles battery life, Doubles eye loss rate.
j]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
@Others, back to topic.
Actually, this great thing to know. People might not like to decrease the brightness and having anther option is good. Even decreasing the brightness + having the screen turned red seems perfect to me.

Personally, I would be interested if a benchmark have been made for doing a semi-monochrome (white/black) + lowering the brightness and seeing how that impact the battery life.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
It's nice to see yet another experiment where I can appreciate the fact that I have a life!]]>Jul 3rd 2010 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
You are correct. In fact, all of the power savings of OLED vs LCD goes out the window when they are display bright, mostly white screens (like a webpage). Thus to save power, the UIs should be dark.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Don't get me wrong, Sharp's utter nonsense about increased color gamut annoys the hell outta me, but an improvement in portable electronics' battery life would be worthwhile.]]>Jul 4th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Seems like they could have an option to turn that on and off during times of low use (just checking the clock or lookong something up quickly).]]>Jul 4th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/With the phone lasting longer when red, it can now be marketed to the army as "good for extended night ops".]]>Jul 4th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Communism efficient???? Might want to research that a bit more.]]>Jul 5th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
AMOLED's outdoor performance for me is a big deal.... This is why I'm gunning a Super AMOLED or a Pixel Qi phone...

I hope the HTC Vision's qwerty is as good as the Epic 4G's... I love the mini-chiclet style keyboard.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/LCDs are even worse as they work with removing colours from white light. No matter what the picture it uses the same amount of power.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
If open source hasn't revolutioned your life, you haven't wasted enough time with it.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/So nice, open-source bringing 4 colors to screens.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
I think I dropped a few IQ points reading your post.]]>Jul 4th 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 4th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/ (read: pwned) apple engineer ]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/
Can't wait for the official Gingerbread phone, if there will be one. (I'll happily take a Pixel Qi qwerty-equipped HTC Vision instead)]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Otherwise known as yellow? Haha]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/A nonandroid/probablyapple fan boy trying to defend his product of choice...
not irony]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Since I own an N1 and even use a Live wallpaper and multiple push services.. I can say .. no.. It will last all day x 2...]]>Jul 4th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/Jul 3rd 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/03/nexus-one-sees-red-nearly-doubles-battery-life-video/I wouldn't mind a display that could switch to gray scale for power savings. Pixel Qi needs to get in some commercial devices already. :(]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:27PM