PSA: cellphone battery life
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Most of you (if any) don't rely on your phone as your only digital device.
Still, this might be useful.
I heard about this on the Internet and have tried it for two days (with some cheating; I admit):
Turn YouTube off. It's not enough to not use it because it still runs in the background. Make sure it's turned off. Make sure the icon is not in color. It needs to be grey when it's on one of your phone's operational screens.
The battery (I haven't timed it) seems to last about 1 1/2 times longer. Yes, I estimate it at 150% as long, give or take.
I highly recommend this if you need to rely on your phone as... a phone, send and receive texts, and have Internet access it you need it.
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More so than most people, I like to manually "close" unused apps on my mobile devices as a matter of habit.
Still, if availability is what you want, it's easier and more effective to have multiple devices.
In a household with multiple people, this comes naturally.
For singles, a low cost way to achieve that is to simply keep the old device when you "upgrade" to a new one, and use a prepaid SIM -- severely limited data, but cheap to maintain. (Used to be that you can just swap the physical SIM card, but as newer phones stop supporting physical SIM, a second SIM is now needed for the second phone.)
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