DISQUS

Mobile Industry Review: Batteries really aren’t good enough yet

  • Kip Hakes · 11 months ago
    I'm finding the N95 battery is alright really - I do cane mine massively - but there have only been a handful of occasions where it has been totally and utterly dead.
  • Kip Hakes · 11 months ago
    Ooh and for those occasions where I am totally out of charge - I've picked up from the states something similar to the Proporta, but a bit cheaper, and it can solar charge too..... Will review it on my blog when it arrives (had to pay a sodding customs charge on it today - *sigh*)
  • Kip Hakes · 11 months ago
    Oooh and two words..

    Nokia
    E71
  • Mac Morrison · 11 months ago
    agreed im loving my E71 and the battery lasts a min of two days
    and thats with me pushing three email accounts (one with alot of traffic)
    constantly usign the gps and data
    listening to music and watching videos.

    its actually quite hard to totally run it down. which iI've been trying to do for the first few charges
    it seems to stay on one blip forever
  • Steve Litchfield · 11 months ago
    Of course, if you'd brought out your Nokia E90 and left all the other devices at home, you'd have made it through the day with ease and saved your bulging pockets as well.... 8-)
  • PatrickatJPR · 11 months ago
    Ewan, the big problem with the G1 is that you can't turn off the email (or at least I haven't found how yet). So even if you don't look at it it's draining away the battery massively just by being on - useless.

    Being always connect and synched is great - but I have to choose there would be times that I would pick battery over connection - like when I'm sat listening to you rant about the industry at Future of Mobile. So I should be able to choose to turn off the email and conserve battery.

    In an ideal world of course I shouldn't have to, but ...
  • EdHodges · 11 months ago
    You know what, and this really guts me, when i talk to friends who have Sony Erricson phones not one of them complains about battery life... Yes they aren't as cool as Nokia or BBs or the G1, yes the text input is terrible BUT, if you want a rock solid (drop down the loo and still work level) NORMAL PHONE where the battery can last a couple of days... there's your answer. I know the answers you'll give, they don't really do email, they're J2ME based so have no particularly worthy 3rd party applications etc etc - agreed. But for making calls, texting and being an alarm clock (the western worlds most important features) they work brilliantly...
  • TerenceEden · 11 months ago
    Nokia 6310i. Something like 17 days worth of standby.

    A top tip - for any phone - turn the brightness of the screen down and set it to switch off after a few minutes of inactivity. Boosts battery life a great deal.