Nvidia Tegra 3 Shows Shocking Results in Terms of Battery Durability

Battery derange is a most distressing problem for all smartphone users. I can’t recall any popular smartphone, which hasn’t faced such an issue. It’s mainly related to the network they are working on, so you don’t need to have any technical knowledge to understand the latest 4G HSDPA and 4G LTE networks are the main battery killers. Nevertheless, everything in this life has its solution, and battery derange is no exception.

SoC makers are working hard to find out the best way of saving the smartphone’s battery from quick discharging. Nvidia seems to have discovered such a method. Its Tegra 3 chipset is one of the main additions to the HTC One X handset, and though the smartphone maker and the chip maker have claimed there is no reason to worry about, people are still concerned about the battery life.

This processor has four cores and uses NVIDIA’s 4-PLUS-1 processor technology. Thus there are five cores, which we have discussed earlier. It now turns out that the mysterious fifth core is fit to the chip to carry the processes, which kill the battery during the day. It handles simple tasks like email sync, text messages and everything else, which isn’t processor intensive, while the other four cores are busy with the main processes, or they play hooky when in sleep mode.

AndroidCommunity has tested the HTC One X and discovered rather shocking results. Turns out when the phone is used too heavily, it will last up to 12 hours, which is a record. But when the device is used more passively during the day, after, say, 8 hours of limited use, the battery sucks hardly 15%.

This comes to contradict to Stephen Elop’s words who explained their use of single core processors by the reason that dual-core and quad-core processors are battery killers. To be honest, Nokia’s smartphones provide quite smooth operations with their processor.

Anyway, the HTC One X is going to fight for the highest positions and a good battery is a necessity, but Nvidia’s Tegra 3 doesn’t support LTE, and I wonder whether it will be so good when used on 4G LTE network.