Learn English – Phrase for something that causes your battery to drain fast
phrase-requests
I am familiar with the phrase battery hog.
Is this a common phrase?
Is there any better expression?
Best Answer
Battery hog is a good expression. It would be instantly understood in the tech field. By way of analogy, we call CPU-intesive apps CPU hogs, as in Chrome could be a huge CPU hog.
Here's an example from CNet:
GPS is a huge battery hog, as it harnesses data from the phone's GPS chip, cell phone towers, and Wi-Fi hotspots to find your location
How about familiar, "possibly known but imperfectly remembered"? As in, "that actor looks familiar!"
Edit: this has a different meaning than the phrase "familiar faces." For example, if someone walked up to me in a crowd and said, "You're a familiar face!" I would expect that person to know me well, at least relative to other people in the crowd. On the other hand, if the same person said, "You look familiar," I would probably try to help him figure out whether he actually knows me or not.
Best Answer
Battery hog is a good expression. It would be instantly understood in the tech field. By way of analogy, we call CPU-intesive apps CPU hogs, as in Chrome could be a huge CPU hog.
Here's an example from CNet:
(http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-get-better-battery-life-on-android/)
Or you can simply say battery drainer:
(http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/technology/battery-draining-apps/)
The adjective battery-intensive could work as well:
(http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-are-the-most-battery-intensive-apps.1097790/)
Edit: These may not be very common, but they still, I think, deserve a mention:
battery killer:
juice-killer:
juice-drainer: