Most Important features in a Smartphone

Buying a smartphone can be very challenging event for consumers nowadays. Main reasons are due to the smartphone companies competing to produce an up to date features in their smartphones in which the claimed to meet consumers expectation. Among the features that has always beiing focused on are:

·         Operating system

·         Camera features

·         Slick design

·         Application features.

In reality, are the above features really considered as most important features in a smartphones? Surprisingly, the above features are NOT one of the important features that consumers will mainly looking for. Many of the smartphone companies overlooked this feature. A survey was conducted by a consultant company in United Kingdom revealed that 89% of the respondents claimed that the battery life was an important features to them when deciding to purchase a new smartphone. (source: http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/best-smartphone-battery-life-2/)

I personally concur with the findings from the survey, simply because it would be irrelevant to own such a sophisticated smartphone but unable to operate for a long period of time due to the ‘short’ life span of the battery. Without this long life span of a smartphone battery, it will mean that a smartphone isn’t very smart or useful if it's dead or cannot be use.

However a point to note that it would not be a fair statement for me to say that there hasn't been progress in making better batteries. Basically, the enhancement of the batteries for the smartphones were not as fast as the development of the devices such as bigger screens, more data and app use, faster processes, and all of the other advancements in the smartphones. The enhancement of the features simply require more power and contribute to the factor why current battery in the smartphones could not last long.

Perhaps these smartphone companies could adopt the lesson learnt from the batteries that are being used in space shuttle that have been launched to the orbit for months long. As we know the space shuttle uses numerous high tech of computer devices and all of these devices utilizes battery operated energy. Should any of the smartphone company able to make breakthrough in the revolution of a longer life of the smartphone battery, I believe the company would be able to capture the market share of smartphone as we can see a significant chunk of smartphone buyers out there who might conceivably switch to the smartphone that can provide them with top-notch battery life.

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