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Battery life... bad?

Operaman

Nov 23, 2004, 5:38 PM
From what I can tell from PhoneScoop's search - and I'm new here, so maybe I'm misunderstanding -, but from what I can tell, this phone has some of the longest battery life, yet 2 of the user-reviews complain it's too short!
What's up with that?

A more important question:
Are the battery life numbers reported here on PhoneScoop what the maker reports or are these numbers that PhoneScoop's generated themselves?
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Macdawgg

Dec 1, 2004, 9:26 AM
Well to be honest if this phone has an achilles heel its the battery. I don't know of anyone reporting times like the spec's indicate. Overall its a fine phone but yes battery life is short and Sony doesn't make an extended battery for this phone.
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Operaman

Dec 2, 2004, 12:06 AM
Great! Buying a cell phone is complete voodoo!

No one's going to the sickeningly intense lengths to measure phones' reception (if they are, they aren't publishing it) and something as easily measurable as battery life is being measured by marketers apparently wearing beer-goggles.

Might as well just go w/ whatever free phone the yahoos in the store at the strip mall are handing out.

:-/

-- O

"Dude, are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know anymore."
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sarahjae

Dec 4, 2004, 4:42 PM
According to ATTWS this fon should have 9 hrs talk time and 300 hrs standby time. All sorts of things can influence battery time. Data browsing, for one. According to Sony Erikkson webiste this phone has 14 hrs of talk time and 315 standby time. Who knows may be you have a new career on your hands, battery tester.
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Operaman

Dec 4, 2004, 5:00 PM
Of course all kinds of things can influence battery time.
But those things shouldn't be affecting the numbers you see listed as "talk time" and "standby time".
There SHOULD be some standardized tests for those things, else why bother reporting the numbers at all?

"My car gets like 9 million miles to the gallon! ... As long as it's just idling and in free fall. On Jupiter. With a down draft of 35mph. And it's pointed down." ;-)
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disturbed1

Dec 5, 2004, 12:43 PM
first off...THAT'S HILARIOUS.

Secondly. I'be been using the t637 all week, and I've noticed that the standby time is pretty decent, it's not quite on par with what my v60 is/was, but then again it's also got a LOT more features to power. What seems to me to kill the battery faster than anything is talking on my BT headset in crappy signal areas, and downloading things. But still after all day, with 2 25+ minute calls and around 4 10minuteorless calls, both long ones and a couple small ones thru BT, plus some web browsing and picture taking, this phone still had just over half a charge on it. In my book that's pretty impressive.

But still it's nowhere near ANY of the rated talk times I've seen.
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smokedoyster

Dec 6, 2004, 2:23 PM
Now that Cingular has merged with AT&T Mobile, my battery life is pretty good.

Before the merger, I was getting one or two days of standby time. That was horrible. After AT&T's cell sites became available about three weeks ago, I get about three or four days of standby time. That's much better.

I notice the phone works in a lot more places, now. I imagine AT&T customers are seeing a similar improvement. Sometimes the phone says I'm connected to "AT&T" and sometimes is says "Cingular."

Now, my only beef is:
1. The backgound noise picked up by the phone's microphone. I can talk to people only when I'm in quiet places.

2. No possibility of reading regular IMAP email from AOL. Anybody else able to use AOL email with this phone?
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