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LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Engadget report: The problem with having a smartphone that you want to use all the damn time is that you'll spend a big chunk of your day wedded to an outlet. LG believes that nobody should have to suffer such an indignity, and has launched the X power2 as a remedy. The smartphone is designed to operate for an entire weekend on a single charge thanks to the 4,500mAh battery tucked inside. It'll also recharge nice and quick, too, taking just two hours to go from flat all the way back up to 100 percent. Unfortunately, like the first-generation LG X power phone, the capacious battery is the only noteworthy thing about it. The 5.5-inch display has a HD resolution, and is using an off-brand 1.5Ghz octa-core chip that we're guessing is made by MediaTek. In addition, there's either 1.5GB or 2GB RAM paired with 16GB storage, which will hardly pull up any trees when most flagships are packing twice that amount.
Samsung Note 7 was a battery which was sold, through clever merchandising, as a phone.
Samsung Note 7 was an incendiary device which was sold, through clever merchandising, as a phone. FTFY
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I have the X power. It sure does last a long time on one charge. Charges quickly, too. The screen is bright. It has 16 GB of RAM. And a headphone jack. The price was nice. The built in software is far less shitware than my previous Sony phone. Build quality is reasonable.
Now that I'm out of positives, let's focus on what sucks: 1.5 GB of RAM means swapping between two apps is slow as hell. The phone is slow as hell because the CPU sucks. 720p. Headphone jack is on the wrong side, IMHO. Dimming to 80% all the time sucks (when the phone has to do even the slightest amount of work, like, say, reading mail, the display dims as it gets "too hot").
My phone that runs Android is the same. It lasts something like 30 hours with everything turned on. Put it in airplane mode, turn off the wifi, GPS, anything with a radio, and it might last 3 or 4 days. Of course, you won't be using it for much.