Free applications charge more battery
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 11:28:57 by Farasat Ali
Researchers from Purdue University and Microsoft have come to the conclusion that free applications charges a lot more battery life on mobile than the extra
applications on the phone. The reason ids simple: the application seeks location of the owner to authenticate appropriate publicity knowing their geographical location and user profile.
The researchers analyzed Eprof; six of the ten most downloaded applications (games and Free Angry Bird Chess, Face book app, the NYT, CNN, MapQuest maps) which can be used by android mobile operating system and the Windows
Mobile as a tool.
One of his conclusions they made is that the applications use energy ranging between 65% and 75% due to using advertising modules. They also found energy inefficiency in the design of applications, which proposes a change
of routines in the presentation.
The applications market is expected to reap reported revenue of 35,000 from the industry to up till 2012, according to some senior analysts. A parallel growth in the popularity of Smartphone
has been seen them become necessity rather than a luxury. However, the more functions the users perform depend on the battery, which has become an increasing concern to consumers.
These researchers, meanwhile, tracked the expenditure of energy in application development and subsequent use in mobile phones. They found that the total discharge pending a search spends 10% to 50% of total
energy, involving tracking of user data (location, phone number) from 20% to 30%%.
The function of the application itself spends only between 10% and 30% of energy. For example, in the case of Angry Birds, it only consumes 20% of the application.
Most of the applications need to look for about 35 links before starting, the links that start from searching the location, which means starting the GPS, which consumes 15% of the power. In case of Free Chess, it requires
33 seconds to open fully the application after connecting to 37 other resources.
Tags: Apple, microsoft
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Posted by Farasat Ali
on Mar 22 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech.
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