Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Least Battery Drain Verified!

It's always nice when users simply believe what you tell them because it's the truth.  But what is truly special, is when we completely by accident come across a page that has third-party independent verification from a well-known company with the reputation of Norton Mobile Security.  Yes, what we have been saying now for the past two years is true.
Both Battery Notifier BT Free and Battery Notifier Pro BT have the lowest drain on your battery of any Android battery app for your Android phone or tablet!

First of all, a big thank you to Norton Mobile Security so we could provide these links.
The versions of both our apps that they tested are each slightly outdated, (the renamed Battery Notifier BT Free is Battery Notifier (Big Text) 2.1.6, and Battery Notifier Pro BT is version 2.1.8) but they tell you all you need to know.

The first place to visit is the Norton Mobile Security - App Resource Hog Widget.  If you enter the name of our apps, the App Resource Hog Widget will also tell you about our low memory use, but the thing to look at here is the power rating, which according to Norton Mobile Security is "The impact of this app on your smartphone’s battery life, calculated over time to eliminate discrepancies."  That's right.  We got a big fat zero.  Now we realize you might be thinking, "Well, those other popular battery apps probably have zeroes also."
Our only response to that would be, go ahead.  We want you to test those other popular battery apps at the App Resource Hog Widget.  Please do.  You might be surprised.  :-)

Battery Notifier Pro BT
Skhil/larryvgs Version 2.1.8
LOW POWER - Tools
Power Score 0 - Category average 12
Memory Score 0 - Category average 9
Shared Memory 5MB - Category average 8MB
Effective Memory 12MB - Category average 19MB
Battery Notifier BT Free
Skhil/larryvgs Version 2.1.6
LOW POWER - Tools
Power Score 0 - Category average 12
Memory Score 0 - Category average 9
Shared Memory 4MB - Category average 8MB
Effective Memory 12MB - Category average 19MB





Norton Mobile Security - Battery Apps is another great link to compare battery apps if the App Resource Hog Widget doesn't have the battery app you are looking for.

Enter the name of any other battery app.  (Yes, there are a lot of them.)   Even if you are lucky enough to find an obscure app that nobody has heard of that matches our zero power rating in the App Resource Hog Widget, they will either want to connect to the Internet, have "madware" issues, or they will require many more permissions.  In short, they can't match the strings of 100's you will find for us at the second Norton Battery Apps link.
appview.mobilesecurity.com - Battery Notifier Big Text

Once again, here are the links that verify we have the least battery drain:
Norton Mobile Security - App Resource Hog Widget
Norton Mobile Security - Battery Apps

Now go look up all those other popular battery apps you thought used less battery than us.
Go ahead.  We'll wait...  :-)