Your smartphone batteries are set to soon last much longer if you own an Android phone awaiting the system's latest version. According to Google, Android O will be able to significantly reduce the background processes of apps.
This should prevent processes such as data transmission, location queries and background services from eating up too much of the battery power. Apple has been using a similar feature in its iOS for a while.
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