by dbadmin | Aug 29, 2025 | Battery, Battery Life, Features, Google, Google Pixel, Google Pixel 10
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google announced a mandatory Battery Health Assistance (BHA) feature for the Pixel 9a earlier this year. This feature essentially reduces the battery’s effective capacity and charging speeds as the cell ages, in the name of...
by dbadmin | Jul 21, 2025 | Battery, Battery Life, Google, Google Pixel 4a, News
Google’s been dealing with the fallout of bad batteries on the Pixel 4a and Pixel 6a. So far, that’s involved updates that limit charging capacity after a certain number of cycles. While there was a trick to avoid that update on the Pixel 4a, Google seems to have...
by dbadmin | Jul 3, 2025 | Battery Life, News
For the EU’s new energy label program, smartphones advertise a rated number of charge cycles. We’ve complied a list of those cycle counts for popular phone and tablet brands and models. Samsung finds itself at the head of the pack, with many devices boasting batteries...
by dbadmin | Jun 19, 2025 | Battery, Battery Life, Features, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung just launched the Galaxy S25 Edge, and it’s probably the most polarizing Galaxy phone in years. The new phone brings an impressively thin and light design along with a 6.7-inch display. It also has the S25 Ultra’s 200MP...
by dbadmin | Jun 11, 2025 | Battery, Battery Life, Google, Google Pixel, News
Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Android 16 QPR1 beta 2 update apparently brings the battery health assistance feature. This feature effectively throttles your charging speed and battery over time in the name of battery health. The feature also comes after...
by dbadmin | May 15, 2025 | Battery Life, Features
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Smartphone battery life has too often felt like a game of cat and mouse. Whenever battery capacity makes a meaningful jump, brighter screens, faster processors, and gargantuan camera arrays come along to set our dreams of...
