[kfitchard]

Well, I think Verizon's point is that some games never let the device go into sleep mode even when paused, inactive or running in the background. I get the impression that Verizon compiled its rating by comparing actual resource consumption compared to "expected" resource consumption, which is probably a fairly relative term. For instance you expect Netflix to consume a lot of data and run down your battery when you're actually watching a movie, but you don't expect a game to do the same when you're not playing it.

-- Kevin F (the article's author)