Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Phone makers switch focus to batteries, not thickness

With the latest generation of high-end smartphones sporting power-hungry 5-inch screens, a growing number of phone vendors are emphasizing bigger batteries rather than thinner devices.

After HTC's introduction of a 5-inch, full-HD screen on its Droid DNA phone, also know as Butterfly, Sony and Huawei Technologies showed similar products at International CES in Las Vegas and, on Tuesday, LG Electronics expanded its Optimus range with the G Pro.

LG's new smartphone was introduced as part of NTT DoCoMo's spring line-up, and will go on sale in early April in Japan. In addition to a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1080, the Optimus G Pro has a Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.7 GHz quad-core processor and a 13-megapixel camera.

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HTC's Droid DNA

That spec is similar to HTC's Droid DNA, but instead of the DNA's 2,020 milliamp-hour battery, LG has equipped the Optimus G Pro with a 3,000mAh one, the same capacity as Huawei's Ascend D2.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026024/phone-makers-switch-focus-to-batteries-not-thickness.html

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