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Smartphone Battery Drains a Lot Even with Dark Screen 智能手机黑屏 Smartphone battery down to 10 percent? Time to turn down the brightness on the screen, right? Its a classic strategy to squeeze more juice from the battery. And it works. But that trick might be less effective than you think. Because it turns out nearly half the battery drain on a phone happens when the screens not even on. So says a study presented at a meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery, in Portland, Ore., 智能手机的电量只有10%了?是时候调低屏幕亮度了，不是吗?这是从电池里多挤出点电量的典型手段。而且这样做很有效。但这个小手段也许并没你想象中那么有效。因为，事实上手机上的电量消耗几乎有一半发生在屏幕关闭的状态下。美国计算机协会在美国俄勒冈州波特兰市举行的一次会议上某项研究如是说。 Researchers eavesdropped on the activity of more than 1,500 Android phones—specifically, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. They used an app they developed called eStar Energy Saver. The app logs the energy drain of the phones apps and activities as they happen. And you can try out eStar Energy Saver yourself, if you have an Android. 研究人员窃听了1500多个安卓手机的应用情况——主要是三星Galaxy S3和S4两种。他们使用自己研发的一款叫做“eStar节能”的应用程序。该应用程序能够记录手机在使用应用程序及进行其他活动时的能量消耗情况。 如果你也有部安卓手机，那你自己也可以试试“eStar节能”这个程序。 They found that some 45 percent of the battery drain happened while the screen was off. A lot of that energy suck was apps updating in the background—downloading headlines and weather, while youre not actively using them. And different versions of the same app require different energy supplies. For instance, some versions of the Facebook app were twice as energy thirsty as other versions. So app version choice could slow your battery drain. 他们发现，手机上45%的电量是在手机屏幕关闭的情况消耗的。很多电量都是某些应用程序在后台更新时被吸掉的——在你并未使用手机时下载头条、天气等信息。相同应用程序的不同版本所需消耗的电量也不相同。比如，有些版本的“脸谱网”应用程序消耗的电量就是其他版本的两倍之多。所以选对应用程序的版本可能会降低电量消耗。 But one of the most hidden energy draws, zapping 12 percent of the battery, was just cellular paging: the pings from a cell tower every 1.28 seconds, that tell your phone if a call or message is on the way. Which is, ultimately, the price of being connected. 但是最能暗中吸电的程序之一、几乎消耗掉12%电量的就是蜂窝寻呼电信业务：每1