Amazon Appstore Battery Drain Issues

Screen Shot from Artem's Phone

Artem Russakovskii, the founder of Android Police, recently removed the Amazon App Store because of battery drain issues.  Check out his full blog post on Android Police for more details on the issues he ran into with this here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/05/14/goodbye-amazon-appstore/.

Personally, I have not ran into this issue yet, but I use a different model of phone than Artem (Samsung Droid Charge), so the issue may not be affecting my phone, or I may have different programs loaded through Amazon App Store.

Artem also bring up an interesting point about supporting the developers who create the awesome apps.  If you are worried about losing all your purchases from the Free App of the Day, you may want to reevaluate this, as the end developers do not make any money off of doing that promotion (although it could be heavily debated about how much marketing buzz a developer would get from running the Free App of the Day promotion).

So, check out what is draining your phone!  Here is a great article that describes how you can check what is draining your Android Phone's battery (without downloading any apps even!): http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20073973-285/how-to-see-which-apps-are-draining-your-android-devices-battery/