You never need to run out power for your smartphone or tablet, even in a land of load shedding, if you follow these simple guidelines.
Don’t Waste – To save battery, whenever possible turn off Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, vibrate, camera flash, notifications, running apps. Turn down brightness and volume and, when the battery is really low, avoid playing games, watching movies, moving wallpapers, cruising the internet and video chats.
Airplane Mode Isn’t Just For Flying – Keeping your smart device in Airplane mode will help preserve battery by automatically switching off many life-draining features and it also helps your battery to charge faster.
Keep it Up – Charge your battery once it reaches 50% if, as is likely, it is a lithium-ion battery. The common belief that you should only charge when below 20% only applies to nickel-based batteries. And never let your battery run down completely as this degrades it.
Avoid the Heat – Overcharging your battery or leaving it in the heat reduce its life. Ideally take the battery off charge just before or as it hits 100%. At an average temperature of 25° a lithium-ion battery loses 20% of its max capacity per year, at 40° it loses 35%.
Purchase a Powerbank – Keep a small, portable back-up power source in your car, handbag or briefcase to ensure you can always re-charge wherever you are and whatever Eskom is doing. There is a range of powerbanks on the market from R199.00 for Red-E’s RC25 through to superchargers (Red-E RC60 for R499.00) which can handle multiple devices or multiple chargers per device at the same time.
Good advice