Seeing Red can almost Double your Battery Life

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Nexus One Engineer Jeff Sharkey was experimenting with battery life in relation to the brightness and colour of the AMOLED screen, says Engadget. The Battery-saving effect is produced by switching off the sub-pixel LEDs in the screen. However, doing this can have some strange (yet colourful) results.

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Jeff Sharkey Tested a small rainbow of colours to detect which had the biggest effect on the battery life. He reports that on average, the red coloured screen used 42 percent less current than full colour. This almost doubles the battery life.

As of yet, the software that can drive this is not widely available - but could we see something like this in the future?


Sources:

Engadget
Jeff Sharkey - This Link has all the tech specs

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Was discussing this with my brother, it's kind of stating the obvious when you put it that using the Red 2V LEDs only saves energy over using the blue and green 3V LEDs in addition/