Why buying a tablet will improve your phones battery life
I discovered something interesting already in the use of my brand new android tablet. It would appear that my phone has started to live for longer periods of time. When I stopped to think of this interesting trend it occurred to me that many of the more tablet optimized tasks I partake in on a daily basis, such as email checking and web browsing I had moved to my tablet, instead opting in to use my phone only while on the move or for smaller tasks such as texting (which, thanks to my use of google voice I could do with equal ease on my new Xoom)
This has greatly improved the battery life of my phone. My phone is now relegated to more phone-like tasks while my Xoom acts as a extremely portable device, similar in function to that if a PC.
This brings to mind the conclusion that the reason our phones battery lives are so horrible these days is because we tend to use them for everything. If you're sitting on a train and you don't have a tablet you're probably going to pull out your mobile phone for instant entertainment. Purchasing and using a tablet however will surmount in a significant gain of battery life for your phone, so long as you have uses for your new tablet.
How Google Could Change The Industry (And Take Over Your Life)
So, the one thing that you’ll find on any and all news websites who are of any quality at all would be the brand new Google Phone, the Nexus One – the one device that’s making me cringe and go “WHY DIDNT I CREATE A YOUTUBE SHOW BEFORE NOW?” Since, you know, just about every single YouTube partner has gotten a free Nexus One. FEEL MY ENVY, YOUTUBERS.
But, there is definitely one thing that could be different. One thing that they could change the entire industry with. And all they’d have to do is partner up with cell phone providers, and convince them to let you get an account without a phone number.
What? What’s that Navarr? You’re absolutely INSANE! You can’t get a cell phone without a cell phone number? Why would you want to? What possible use could that be? What would you do??
Well, if you really are asking all those questions, than shut the hell up and think for a moment. What two things does Google own that would allow them to do something so spectacularly crazy?
Google Voice, and Gizmo5. Gizmo5 would only be necessary if they decided to do Voice over Data, which I personally am not sure the cell phone backend is ready for – but could you imagine purchasing a Nexus One, signing in with your Google (apps?) Account, and then if you already have Google Voice it simply works? And if you don’t it gets you started on creating an account, including choosing your own phone number (for life, although changeable).
Google would store your basic account numbers and information, and if you ever wanted a new android phone, you would simply log in. It’d automatically use your phone number and all your other details, too.
Maybe though, just maybe Google could do this – and make actual cellular calling free, with the only thing you’re paying for being data.