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A Study on Smart Phone Batteries and its

Power Utilization
L.Priya1, Visalaxi.S2, Mohana.E3
Department of Information Technology, Rajalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, India

ABSTRACT: Usage of mobile phones increased significantly during last few decades, which raised the expectation
and requirements on it. In today world’s mobile phones plays an important role in communication as well as in
computing aspects, which increases dependency of human being on mobile phones. Even though mobile phones appear
with innovative features such as wireless charging, paper tab, stronger screens, contextual intelligence, Dual recording
etc., the problem of power limitations of mobile devices are still there to be addressed. Power Consumption of smart
phones is very high due to background running of applications and technology involved in it. As the hardware
restrictions for efficient computing are slowly eradicated, the problem of battery life still exists. This paper reviews on
types of battery, online surveys and its power utilization .

KEYWORDS: Smart phone , batteries, power consumption

I. INTRODUCTION

Mobile phones have become an important aspect of our busy life. In traditional days people were used to landlines,
and hesitate to use mobile phones because of high call charges. But nowadays, life is almost unimaginable without
these mobile phones. Mobile phones are now easily affordable and the price we have to pay is negligible compared to
the benefits we derive.. The primary advantage of cell phones over landlines is 'mobility'. The former make the working
pretty easy as one can communicate from anywhere at any time.
The advent of cellular phones has come with many other advantages such as, instant call making facility, Personal
safety, general convenience, and above all, staying connected has made life much easier than before. Landlines in no
way can compete with the features offered by hand-held's. They have simplified things and shrunk the world into a
global village. They are light in weight, portable, connectable to internet and carry various other features that make life
simpler and better. A mobile handset is equivalent to a watch, calculator, organizer, notepad, camera, MP3 Player and
other media devices like alarm clock, telephone index and above all, a wireless phone with boundless range and
connectivity.
Cellular phones have definitely shoved away landline phones and their applications to a great extent, though the choice
between the two again depends on the budget, utility and the convenience level of those using them. To improve upon
the battery life of the cellular phone a study is made to understand the various types of batteries and respective online
surveys. The structure of the paper is as follows. Section II deals with the literature survey of battery issues and section
III elaborates on the types of batteries and the section IV summarizes the online surveys and section V concludes the
study.

II. LITERATURE SURVEY

Mobile phone users have to deal with limited battery lifetime through called human-battery interaction (HBI)[1]. Three
user studies are conducted in order to understand HBI and discover the problems in existing mobile phone designs. The
studies comprise a large-scale international survey, a one month field data collection including quantitative battery
logging and qualitative inquiries from ten mobile phone users, and structured interviews with twenty additional mobile
phone users. Fangwei Ding et al. developed a smart energy monitoring system called SEMO for smartphones using
Android operating system which can profile mobile applications with battery usage information, which is essential for
both developers and users [2]. Hans Fredrik et al. implemented a smart power management system that looks at the

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currently running applications and gives the user suggestions on which applications should be killed in order to
optimize the battery life of the device[3]. Rimpy Bala et al. constructed a learning engine [4]. User behavior
information in terms of apps used battery consumption and contexts, are collected for a period of time and then fed into
a learning engine. Artificial neural was used to implement the learning engine. This pattern based learning engine
intelligently decides, how to control the smartphones features. [5] Narseo Vallina et al. conducted survey at six
different levels: energy-aware operating systems, efficient resource management, the impact of users’ interaction
patterns with mobile devices and applications, wireless interfaces and sensors management, and finally the benefits of
integrating mobile devices with cloud computing services.
Lide Zhang et al. proposed PowerBooter, an automated power model construction technique that uses built-in battery
voltage sensors and knowledge of battery discharge behavior to monitor power consumption while explicitly
controlling the power management and activity states of individual components [6]. PowerTutor is a component power
management and activity state introspection based tool that uses the model generated by PowerBooter for online power
estimation. [7] G. P. Perrucci et al. presents results of power and energy consumption measurements conducted on
mobile phones for 2G and 3G networks. The services under investigation were text messaging, voice and data. The
paper reports larger energy consumption in 3G networks for text messaging and voice services than energy
consumption in 2G networks. On the other side the 3G networks become more energy friendly when large volumes of
data have to be downloaded. The results imply that mobile phones should switch the network in dependency of the
service used to save the maximum amount of energy. [8] N. Ravi et al. proposed a system for context- aware battery
management that warns the user when it detects that the phone battery can run out before the next charging opportunity
is encountered

III. TYPES OF BATTERY

Mobile phones have become a central part of everyday life like, to keep in touch, to update social media, and to surf the
Internet. This continual daily usage requires long life battery. If a mobile phone battery develops a fault such as not
retaining a charge or not fully charging, then it is difficult to fully utilize the features available on mobile. There are
four main types of mobile phones. They are discussed below,
A Lithium Polymer Battery
More modern mobile phones have this kind of battery. It is extremely light and is very strong and resistant, making it
ideal for those who tend to be less careful with their mobile phone. The battery is also very safe as due to the casing
surrounding it and there is no risk of fire or explosion even if the battery is punctured. A lithium polymer battery has no
memory defects which means it can be recharged to full capacity regardless of how much charge still held in the
battery. A lithium polymer battery also able to retain its charge for a long period of time and it may even last up to
50 times longer than other types of phone battery. Other advantages of using a lithium polymer battery are the fact that
it will maintain its level of performance in severely cold conditions and it will retain its charge even when not used for
a period of several months.

B Lithium Ion Battery

A lithium-ion phone battery is a light weight battery, which, because of its high energy density is able to operate at a
higher voltage than many other types of rechargeable phone batteries. A lithium-ion battery is usually 3.7 volts while
some other rechargeable phone batteries may be as low as 1.2 volts. This means Lithium-ion batteries will normally
only be suitable to use in newer models of mobile phone so it is important to check the phone specifications to ensure
that a lithium battery is compatible. One useful feature of this type of battery is that they use a fast charge technique
when charging the phone. This means that the phone is charged to around 80 per cent very quickly. But the remaining
charge is added more slowly over a period of hours. The price may be higher for a lithium-ion battery but this reflects
the high level of performance and its potentially long life.

C Nickel Metal Hydride Battery

The main advantage of using a nickel metal hydride battery is that the fact that it is possible to recharge the battery at
great speed. In some cases it may be possible to fully recharge the battery in an hour. This is slightly outweighed by the

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fact that nickel metal hydride batteries have a fairly poor power retention rate. Even though the battery can be quickly
charged, recharging it again may have to take place more frequently than with other types of phone battery.
D Nickel Cadmium Battery
This was the original type of rechargeable phone battery and it has largely been outdated by the other types of battery.
Cadmium is a toxic substance and its presence in the batteries led to general concern over their usage and their disposal
because of the potential environmental impact. The use of nickel cadmium batteries is now restricted in the EU and it
would be very strange to find nickel cadmium phone batteries available to buy.

IV. DISCUSSION ON ONLINE SURVEYS:

A survey among 3500 phone users in US, UK, Germany and UAE on the problem they are facing with mobile phone
[10]. In that, battery life is given as the biggest problem by 37% of mobile users. Others like patchy reception by (14%)
and high data charges (12%). A long-lasting battery is also the single most important feature desired in a new phone for
71% of respondents. This survey revealed that many of the mobile users would liketheir mobile phones to have more
durable batteries than added features.
The poll was conducted online by uSwitch.com in July 2014 [9]. In that, Long battery life was listed as the top reason
for buying a phone at 89%,Waterproof case was the second most popular feature with 67% of the vote, Three quarters
said they are not interested in eyeball-tracking technology, While 69% said they don’t want voice control, and 62%
aren't concerned with 3D graphics . The survey is given in table 1

TABLE 1
ONLINE SURVEY

THE REASONS WHY PEOPLE WOULD BUY A SMARTPHONE

More likely to buy No difference Less likely to buy
Long battery life 89.20% 10.80% 0%
Fingerprint scanning security 37.60% 55.50% 6.80%
Voice control 26.10% 68.90% 5.10%
Eyeball tracking 14.20% 74.90% 11%
Fingerprint-proof screen 48.50% 48.10% 3.40%
Waterproof body 67.20% 32.30% 0.50%
A zoom camera lens 66.40% 32.10% 1.50%
3D display / graphics 26.40% 61.90% 11.70%
Flexible phone 17.70% 62% 20.20%
Projector 32.30% 54.50% 13.30%
Mobile payment technology 34.50% 59.70% 5.80%

V. CONCLUSION

In today’s world, smart phones are more powerful with power consuming technologies like GPS, 3G and Wi-Fi. So
battery plays an important role in cellular phones.“Battery life” is the amount of time ,a device runs before it needs to
be recharged. Hence it is important to consider both battery life and types of battery in the smart phone. By taking this
into account a study is made on smart phone batteries, its power utilization on mobile phones and the same is
summarized as presented. As a future work the various ways to resolve the power consumption of the battery will be
taken into account.

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