Its no secret out there that if you have an Android you're not walking around a full day without having to recharge your device. Yeah, the Android app store had 100k apps and doubled to 200k in just 63 days, but what use do you get out of mobile apps when you have to be plugged into an outlet in order to use them.

According to Gizmodo:

Google CEO Eric Schmidt chimed in, clarifying the issue on battery drain. He stated, "The primary consumer of the battery life on these phones is the transmit/receive circuit. So tuning that and obviously figuring out a way to not use too much of that extends your battery life. And people bring in applications that are not particularly smart about that, which is what Larry is trying to get at."

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Larry Page also had something to say about this topic by stating if your battery is not lasting a day something is wrong. Thank you Larry.

It's no surprise what Eric Schmidt said is killing the battery.It is surprising, though, that the battery on a phone that is designed to run apps does not effectively support them. Improving your battery life on Android is simple, shut down all your apps and don't use them. At that point you might as well trade in your droid for Motorola Razor, which i promise you will yield better battery life. Why doesn't the iPhone run into the same problems though? Gizmodo explains about how iPhone multitasking works and puts less stress on the device and battery:

Apple's method, however, is quite clever: Basically, it allows you to pause applications—like you can pause them in any UNIX-based operating system, while enabling some special services to allow some types of tasks—like receiving calls or playing music—to run on the background. There are seven kinds of services, and Apple says these will give the user the kind of multitasking they demand, but without choking the system

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Maybe Android has to work on a better multitasking system to ease up on the battery. It would be a shame to let all those great apps to go unused.