A little rant from Steve, the creator of WeWantBatteryLife.com: Do you remember a time when you could turn your phone on in the morning, go out all day, phone your friends and arrange to go a party, go to that party, party, photograph all manner of bottles and boxes balanced on a sleeping friend's motionless body, fall asleep next to that sleeping friend, wake up the next afternoon, look at the photographs you had taken and then phone a nice pizza shop to deliver you some food to make you feel better? I remember, my friends and everybody I've spoken to remember, and we're not impressed that today's modern smartphones would have run out of battery life before we even fell asleep. The reason is giant power-hungry touch screens, processors that embarrass laptops and cameras that rival dedicated compacts. So much effort has gone into making these truly fantastic devices but, from a user's perspective, battery life has just got worse and worse. One day of battery life should not be an impressive selling point. What's the point in a beautiful wafer thin smartphone if you can't turn it on? There's a market for a smartphone that treats battery life as a priority. I don't care if my phone is a little thicker or heavier if that means I can go away for a weekend and still use my device. The point of a mobile phone is to not be constantly tethered to a plug socket. I'm a massive fan of technology and am genuinely impressed with how sophisticated our phones are, but I get gradually less impressed as it begins to shout at me for daring to venture away from my charger. The primary concern of the vast majority of people I've spoken to about their shiny new phones has been battery life and I was surprised to see that there wasn't a noticeable fuss being made online about it. If this little website, coded during the odd evening in my living room, can prompt manufacturers into making gains in battery life then I'll deem this all a success. Steve x

My phone is not listed, what do I do?
Choose 'other' for either make or model and enter whatever we are missing. Your data will, after a very quick bit of moderation (this is the internet), be added to the database. Results for new phones will take a little while to appear; this is because we feel it's best to collect a few more results before presenting them. How do you define a "Smartphone"?
It can be a bit of a confusing definition. Have a look at the Wikipedia article. We think a smartphone is a mobile device that functions like a little computer: usually with a big (often touch-sensitive) screen, internet and email functions and the ability to download and install 'apps'. Why are you not using all the submitted information?
You'll notice that we're also collecting information such as what battery manager apps people are using, screen brightness settings and other tricks and may be wondering where the results for these are. We don't want to present the data until we've collected enough of it, when we do we'll be presenting more lovely charts but also writing blog articles on what tricks appear to work best. How independent is this?
100%. You'll see the occasional Google and Affiliate advert on the website, but these do not influence the results and only exist as an attempt to pay for bandwidth. The website is not in any way associated with any mobile phone manufacturer or operator. I have another question!
Email mail@wewantbatterylife.com, all mail is responded to.