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The Android dig at the end is wrong. I don't know what he means by "basically turn everything off and turn your $600+ phone into a dumb phone" but an Android phone is still very usable in low battery mode. Basically it dims the screen, slows the CPU and limits background data syncing. Probably the same thing the iphone does.

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My Nexus 5 is so slow and clunky in Battery Saver mode that I seriously wonder if it actually helps. Taking a minute to do something in Battery Saver mode isn't necessarily more efficient than spending 5 seconds in normal mode.

I've found the exact opposite... by turning on Battery Saver mode, it disabled all the extraneous animations and transitions and actually made my old Nexus 4 feel responsive again!

Under the developer options section, you can disable animations.

Where is that? (google did not help..)

I followed http://www.cnet.com/how-to/speed-up-your-android-by-adjustin... on a Moto X (reached via Googling "android disable animations").

Thank you!

He meant the "extreme" low battery mode some vendors like HTC, Samsung[1] and Sony implemented, which soft reboots your phone into a power save mode where all you can do is make calls and send texts.

[1] http://m.androidcentral.com/using-ultra-power-saver-samsung-...

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