“It’s a chewer of battery power par excellence. Again, not a huge shock; this is a big screen phone and I spent a lot of time testing it yesterday, and then letting it sit on the charger once it started plaintively bleeping at me that power was low.”
Why in the name of everything holy would any phone manufacturer make a phone beep when its battery is dying?
Best case scenario: it beeps, you go ‘oh, hey, my phone is beeping annoyingly, I’d better plug it in to the charger’. It stops beeping. You are ambivalent about your phone.
Typical scenario: it beeps & you aren’t near a charger. It annoys you constantly until you are near a charger. You hate your phone.
Worst scenario: it beeps somewhere in your house, waking you up in the middle of the night. You can’t get back to sleep. You stumble out of bed, wander into your living room in the dark, trip over the shoes you kicked off hours ago, fall & impale yourself on a surround sound speaker stand. You actively hate your phone, & it has caused you physical pain.
Makers of consumer electronics — A phone is not a dying child. Never make an electronic device make noise when its battery is low. EVER EVER EVER
(Source: gizmodo.com.au)
