I’m still learning my way around the Android system, and as I mentioned in an earlier post, Battery Life can be a bit of a problem – at least until you realise that to save battery life, you have to close apps down when your not using them.
The ‘Advanced Task Manager’ app from ReChild in the Android Market, is great for this, but what I didn’t have, until a few days ago, was something to help me monitor the state of the battery at a glance.
BatteryLife from www.curvefish.com – and available in the Android Market, is the answer to this problem. it gives you a widget for your screen that shows the remaining batter life as a percentage, and when charging, will show how thats going too.
Using these two apps, I’ve been able to go longer between charges, the battery life of the Samsung Galaxy Portal I’m using, will never be close to that of the Nokia E63 that I’ve been used to, but the features of the Android system are worth more frequent visits to the mains socket!