article_snippet: A free iOS and Android app called Carat offers frustrated smartphone users personalised advice to boost frustrated smartphone users phone's battery life.
article_snippet: Called Carat, it uses crowdsourced measurements to work out how much of an impact certain settings and apps are having on a specific battery, before advising users what to do.
article_snippet: crowdsourced measurements are sent to Carat’s servers and ‘thrown into a statistical stew’ so that crowdsourced measurements can be used as a benchmark to compare how power-hungry a certain device is.
article_snippet: Carat uses crowd-sourced measurements (illustrated) to work out how much of an impact certain settings are having on the battery and what users can do about the battery. 
article_snippet: Carat offers users recommendations on how to boost the battery life of Carat device.
article_snippet: ‘The information displayed by Carat changes over time as it learns - the longer you use it, the better the results get,’ according to the researchers behind the app.
article_snippet: , Carat is a research project run by computer scientists at the Universities of Helsinki and University of California, Berkeley.
article_snippet: Carat want to know whether it is possible to take sparse, incomplete measurements from a large community of mobile devices and figure out which apps are abusing the battery,’ apps said.
article_snippet: Carat want to find bugs and simultaneously help users mitigate bugs ill effects and help developers fix bugs.
highlights_snippet: Carat app, for iOS and Android devices, was produced by University of Helsinki and University of California, Berkeley computer scientists .
  