Smartphones bring people into different level of computing and life style but all the features and computing abilities of smartphone is entirely rely upon battery backup. Short of power backup directly distresses user experience and it leverages new energy efficient findings. Over the past ten years, plethora of finding is carried out related to energy optimization and conservation developments of smartphone and mobile communication and this changes the entire perspective of the platform. This paper tries to fetch such a trend setting outcomes from the legendary researchers, compares them and provides evidence of the fact. This review of literature covers a wide range of the study regarding 3G/4G network communication, Smartphone Apps performance and usage patterns and highlights their research proposals, solutions, architectures and results regarding to the energy efficiency in smartphone and cellular network. This literature study may offer many research directions to the upcoming researchers.

Traffic Aware Optimization, Radio Signal Strength, Screen Off, Smartphone, Energy Efficiency, Cellular Network, Mobile Computing

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