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Prolong your phone’s battery life

With more time being spent on our phones, for work and play, the battery, somehow, never seems to last long enough. These apps will help remove the stress of being disconnected from the world because of a flat smartphone battery.

1.Juice Defender allows you to manage common connections, such as mobile data as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Other pluses are that there are multiple versions, depending on your needs; user profiles can be created; scheduling is possible and there is the option of location-aware features.

2. Battery Defender shows the exact battery percentage in the notification bar, which is quite handy. The "quiet sleeping" option disables Wi-Fi and data connections at night; toggling between connections is easy; and Genius Scan allows sync to occur every 15 minutes.

3. Go Power Master Battery Saver watches your apps to see which are using more battery than others and gives you the option to disable or enable certain features to extend the battery life; it has an uncluttered interface and provides a constant stream of development updates.

4. Autorun Manager stops annoying apps from starting up; you have the option of two user modes; allows you to decide what runs immediately when your phone starts up and "Chuck Norris" lets you kill apps in a more aggressive manner.

5. Tasker this is for anyone who wants to help automate the Android experience based on time, day and location; automatic settings are provided for text and calls; and the interface is simple and neat.

With these clever battery saving apps, you might just possibly be able to take over the world, through your smartphone. Or not… But, at least you won’t run out of battery life while trying.

This was taken from a Cnet article - for a more in depth look at the apps, please go here.

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