Authors:
Przemyslaw Falkowski-Gilski
and
Maciej Pankowski
Affiliation:
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, Gdansk, Poland
Keyword(s):
Android OS, Battery Consumption, Energy Efficiency, Mobile Devices.
Abstract:
Mobile devices are widely used by billions of users worldwide. Thanks to their main advantage, which is portability, they should be fully operational as long as possible, without the need to recharge or connect them to external power sources. This paper describes a study, carried out on four different mobile devices, with different hardware and software parameters, running the Android operating system. The research campaign involved several scenarios, including consumption of audio-visual content by different means of wireless communication (cellular and Wi-Fi), designed to best reflect the common daily use of a modern smartphone. Those scenarios were based on a user experience survey conducted at the beginning of the study. Obtained results illustrate user preferences as well as resource consumption of multimedia on different devices with varying distribution of the Android OS.