I read loads of reviews about the Nokia n95 before I bought one on
T-Mobile on their Flext 35 + Web'n Walk tariff so knew about the
battery life issue but let me just impress this upon you all:
The battery life is AWFUL. I was quite happy with charging it every
night but I can't even get it to last that long.
This morning I unplugged it at 8am as it had been plugged in/charged
since last night. (WiFi) Downloaded the BBC Breakfast Takeaway
podcast via the Podcasting app Nokia make, arrived at work at 08:35,
took a few photos for the Flickr 365 Days project and uploaded them
via 3G, took a couple more photos (no flash on any of them) and,
listened to a few music tracks for about 30 minutes, had lunch, used
surfed the net for 10 mins to help with a crossword and at 2pm I get
the unhappy "Battery low" sound.
That's a SIX HOUR battery life today. Same 2 days ago. I charged it
again at work as I brought my spare charger to leave in my drawer for
this phone now. After a 50 minute phone call at 7pm, a couple of
photos and using the internet for 10 or 15 mins from the handset I'm
on 1 out of 7 bars of battery life again. I'm live and work in areas
with excellent 3G coverage so it's not network hunting all the time.
So it was charged this morning, charged at 2pm and is about to be
stuck on charge again now.
I've turned the brightness down, turned bluetooth off, disabled WiFi
auto-scanning, turned the screen lamp timeout to 5 secs, power-saving
screensaver to minimum setting (1 minute) and I really can't think of
anything else to do with it.
This is a new battery - heaven knows what it'll be like in 8 or 10
months time when it gets a bit old. I'll probably have to use it like
a land-line plugged in all the time or walk around with the £400,000
Nokia Nuclear Power Station addon to help with the talk-time.
Nokia: EXCELLENT phone, but I don't see why I should have to charge it
twice a day. Surely someone noticed this in testing? Also, the 200+
hour standby time you list in your specs is total and utter bollocks.
Could you not have moved the Carl Zeiss lens 5mm closer to the top of
the handset and made the battery bigger? Could you have made the
phone 2 or 3mm thicker?
Could you have used a 'power saving' processor that isn't at full
power when the phone is essentially idle like AMD/Intel do with their
laptop batteries?
I'm not going to return the phone as I think it's excellent, fast and
does everything I want. It's just a shame that the battery life is
eye-watering in a bad way.
Just my 2p's worth.
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