Using Free Apps on Android eats up your phone battery for displaying ads: Study

You got to know something today! The free applications on Android are the main culprits for your phone’s battery consumption. The new research suggests that almost seventy five percent of your phone battery use is spent on free Android apps for advertisements and other hidden tasks.

The scientists from Indiana’s Purdue University, has developed a software to analyze the app’s power demands. They also revealed that the free Angry Birds application, just uses 20 percent  to display and run the actual game and the remaining 45 percent is used to find whether the user is using GPS and downloading advertisements over 3G that are relevant to your location. The 3G connection stays open for around 10 seconds, even after the transmission is complete and this “tail energy” consumes another 28 per cent of the app’s energy.

The study will be presented during next month in the EuroSys conference in Bern, Switzerland, says the reports. Do you use Angry Birds app? Do you agree this?