05-30-2023, 08:09 AM
Android is heavily optimized for minimum power consumption. E.g., apps can be suspended by the OS at any time, which means Android asks them to save their state and then terminates them, and then they have to resume from the saved state later. (Android also saves a screenshot of the UI in memory so the user does not notice that the app is not actually running anymore.) The PinePhone OS (none of the available ones, except of course GloDroid) does none of all this, and is not likely to start doing so any time soon. So do not expect the power consumption to ever be as low as on Android, it is just not going to happen.
