Sony Ericsson T637
Battery life... bad?
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?
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."
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." ;-)
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.
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?