Tech Table
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
November 5, 2013
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s TechTable. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana.
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.
Diana: We promise: it’ll be easy to digest. Tech Tuesday.
Justin: Yes, it’s Tuesday here at the TechTable. And Diana, what are we talking about today?
Diana: Well, Smartphones.
Justin: One of your favorite things.
Diana: Yes, yes. And talking about saving and conserving the battery power on them.
Justin: Right. And I think that’s an interesting thing. I just let mine do what it does and I complain when the battery dies. And I always get mad at you because I’m always like, Can you take a picture of this? And you’re like, Let me turn it back on.
Diana: Should we talk about your Blackberry?
Justin: Moving forward. I have an iPhone too. Speaking of that, I hold in my hands my new gold iPhone. I’m very excited. Yes, it’s an exciting thing. It’s very cool. And it’s not shiny, it’s not shiny gold.
Diana: It’s kind of a brushed gold.
Justin: It’s like a matte gold look.
Diana: It’s really nice.
Justin: I think it’s nice. They say it’s a statement and yes, I had to wait extra weeks because they’re sold out and everything. But it’s great. I really like it. I really like the new operating system. I like everything. It’s flat, it’s very easy. I think there are too many apps on it already but I’m going to actually blame David at MPA for that because he probably actually put a bunch of apps on it already for me.
Diana: He programmed it?
Justin: He doesn’t know…Well, he kind of knows how simple I am. I like I like simple things. Simple.
Diana: Like a Blackberry.
Justin: Yes. Which I still have one of those too. I just upgraded to a new one of the same one I had. But anyway. All right. Back to saving battery power.
Diana: There are lots of things you can do, lots of steps to take to save and conserve the battery life on your Smartphone. Because if you have a Smartphone you know that it definitely dies a lot faster than a standard cellular phone. If you made the switch recently you’re noticing it now, you may be frustrated. I made the switch a few years ago and I noticed it right away where I’d have to be plugging my device in at least once during the day and then of course, at night. Whereas previously with a regular cell phone you could just charge it at night and you’re good. Anyway, some things you can do.
Justin: That’s really interesting. Basically what’s happening is your Smartphone is working all the time. So you basically have to turn off some of those functions.
Diana: Exactly. And we can go through a list of some of those functions now.
Justin: Then why don’t we do that? You know all of these things. I don’t even know what half the stuff is because, like I said, I just leave mine on all the time.
Diana: If you get into your settings you’ll see some of the services like Bluetooth and wireless, they’re on by default on most Smartphones. Just get in there, temporarily disable those. You may have to do that every time you turn on your phone. It depends on your device. But get in there if you don’t need your Bluetooth and you don’t need the wireless just turn them off until you need them again.
Justin: Because it will continually search for a wireless signal.
Diana: That’s right. Turn off that wifi.
Justin: That’s when I do understand and I do do because it will just continually search for a wifi signal and if you’re out and about somewhere and it can’t find one it’s going to keep searching.
Diana: Consider the auto brightness, just adjusting the brightness of your screen. Auto brightness will automatically adjust that brightness but if you just go in even to your settings and adjust it yourself to a lower brightness that will take less energy. If you have background motion on your iPhone, running an IOS 7 you can disable the dynamic setting backgrounds on that too. Those are just settings on there; services they have. Turn off the 3G and the 4G LTE
Justin: Disable the location services which is built into GPS. Which a lot of people don’t like anyway. My iPhone asks me all the time, “Do you want to tell this application where you are?” No. I don’t. Some people do though. Disable the location services.
Diana: Right. Lots of things you can do. Just get in there and try to turn off things that you’re not using basically.
Justin: Absolutely. Until next time.
Diana: Take care.
Justin: TechTable is brought to you by MPA of Bloomfield, Iowa and God’s Country Radio. You can visit us online at askMPA.com.
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Justin: And thanks for listening.
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