Who hates it?
CaptainSeth said:Nope...me too. I find myself watching it too much and convincing myself it's draining too fast. If I'm not too busy avoiding using my phone all together to try and keep the percents high...kind of silly, I know.
Glad I'm not aloneFoxKat said:Me! Precision and accuracy are two entirely different things. Precision is the difference between 10% increments and 1% increments. Accuracy is how close to 37% it really is when the meter shows 37%.
The problem with accuracy when it comes to theses batteries is that the difference between 20% and 10% in voltage drop (which is what meter readings are tied to), isn't the same amount of actual power consumption as from 70% to 60%. As a result, the phone's meter will show faster consumption in one part of the linear scale, and slower in another.
So looking at greater precision (1% increments) doesn't result in a more accurate representation of the battery's actual level of charge and can actually be far more misleading. By looking at wider sections of the battery consumption, the variances in the battery's non-linear discharge curve are more evenly represented and the result is less stress......................for you!
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Me! Precision and accuracy are two entirely different things. Precision is the difference between 10% increments and 1% increments. Accuracy is how close to 37% it really is when the meter shows 37%.
Well put FoxKat. Resolution creates precision, but not accuracy. A voltage readout mat say 5.01367 vdc but if the actual voltage is 4 vdc, the readout is useless, regardless of its very precise readout.
WOW! Thanks for the complement. Bullets on a target are a great analogy as well. Resolution is probably the most widely misunderstood of all. Since it involves not only pixel density, but also pixel pitch, viewing distance, grid design (i.e. RGB Stripe/RGBG Pentile/RGBW Pentile, Diagonal OLPC, etc.), grid layout (i.e. parallel matrix, triad grouping), screen mask, screen dimension, and so much more.
I have to laugh every time I hear about the "Retina Display" on the iPhone, because it's been proven to be insufficient a resolution to qualify as "Retina" in resolution for those with perfect near-sighted vision. But what's even funnier is that at the typical viewing distance I use my Droid RAZR, mostly at near arm's length (aging eyes), I don't see any of the pixel definition that I read about people complaining of - "looking through a screen". If I put on a pair of 2X or 2.5X reading glasses and hold the phone less than a foot away, then I can see them, but that's not practical, so for me there's no appreciable difference between my Droid RAZR MAXX and my boss's iPhone 4S in apparent resolution.
Sorry, when I threw the term resolution out there, I was referring to readouts (ie. voltage). Another concept we had to make sure our people understood was exactly this. Take a voltmeter with a 5 1/2 digit display. When adjusting a circuit for 1 VDC, you could get the display to read 1.00000 VDC, leading you to believe you had made a very accurate adjustment. Actually, you made a very precise adjustment, because your reading was resolved to 10 uVDC (least significant digit = 0.00001 VDC). However if the cumulative error of your measurement (accuracy) was +/- 1 mVDC, then all you could certify was that you had adjusted the circuitry to 1 VDC +/- 1mVDC. So the actual voltage you adjusted to such a precise reading lays somewhere between 0.99900 and 1.00100 VDC. Seems simple, but many people had trouble grasping this concept. I am going back over 18 yrs, but I worked in calibration for over 20, and still have a bit of synaptic process left in this area, although as short lived at times as Edison's early attempts at light!:biggrin: