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Just like any other electrical device such as a cell phone, iPhone, or iPod, the battery of an iPad will last a shorter time during heavy use. This article is here to help you make most of your iPad by increasing its battery life.

1. Reduce the brightness of the iPad screen. Obviously, the brighter your screen is the more battery it consumes! Reduce the brightness to a level that isn't too bright or too dark - just about right. This can be done by going to "Settings" and then "Brightness & Wallpaper". Now, drag the slider to the left in order to lower the screen brighness. I suggest 20-35 percent brightness should be sufficient for daytime use.

2. Turn the Wi-Fi and cellular data settings OFF. Your iPad battery drains quite drastically when the Wi-Fi is switched on. Therefore, if you are not planning on using Safari/internet or apps that require an internet connection then turn them off.

3. Turn off the sound effects. Sounds can cause your iPad battery to drain quickly if they are used frequently. Because they are activated by default, they sound whenever notifcations are received or when pressing buttons for the on-screen keyboard. What you need to do to turn off the sound effects in order to make your iPad bettery last longer is to go to "Settings" > "General" > "Sounds". The equalizer has five different options to "Increase/Decrease". You may also switch to "On/Off" if that is what you prefer. By disabling the lot, obviously, you will decrease battery usage by sounds.

4. Use it less often! This may sound a bit obvious, but, it is a valid point to make. Some of you out there are on your iPad 24/7 listening to music and watching videos... This will not help your battery. The more you use it, the more battery will be consumed. Therefore, if you try to cut the time you spend on your iPad by, maybe, 15-20 percent then your iPad battery will last longer.


More to come... How To Make iPad Battery Last Longer Part 2 will be up ASAP!


WisePenguin,

The Nokia Morph is a concept demonstrating some possibilities that nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning.

 (Credit: Nokia.com)

If you don't know what i'm talking about then just watch this....


That looks pretty cool, i just hope our generation is still on this planet when that comes out. IF... that comes out. Some of the functions seen in the video look impossible... !


Even if this finally comes out, i don't think it will be any cheaper than... oh, i don't know... let's say £20,000? But as you can see from the video it will probably be worth the money :)

The manufacturer believes that some of the device's imagined features could appear in high-end devices by 2015. However, i really do doubt that we humans can make something as complex as that... It seems impossible... Doesn't it? The amount of technology that has to go in one of those... I'm not so sure.

WisePenguin,

WisePenguin,