I spotted the screencap shown above in a post over at JAMM, talking about some upcoming Android device running a new 2.1 version of the Android OS. What really caught my eye is the sub-heading below the ‘Battery use ‘ section, which reads:
What has been using the battery
Yowza “ now that is a utility I would love to see! An applet that monitors battery usage among services and applications and gives you a breakdown of which ones have been sucking the most life out of the poor old iPhone battery.
I ‘m not at all sure how do-able this is, and I imagine it is not something Apple will be giving us anytime soon. How about all our fiendishly clever jailbreak devs though? We ‘ve got all the battery status theming options we could possibly want, and lots of ways to show our percentages in the status bar “ how about some ‘Who ‘s To Blame ‘ action so we can spot the biggest culprits and either get rid of them or adjust our usage of them to get better results.
What do you all think? Is this something you ‘d find useful? How easy / difficult / impossible is it to do?
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