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Am I the only one that cringes each time i see the promise "over a day's worth of battery life." We used to have 2 weeks of battery life on any normal mobile p
by glaberficken 13y ago
Am I the only one that cringes each time i see the promise
"over a day's worth of battery life."
We used to have 2 weeks of battery life on any normal mobile phone.
- mhurron 13y agoAnd that mobile phone didn't do half what this and other smart phones do.
- nodata 13y agoNo we didn't, not at the time. Go back ten years and we had a few days worth of battery life. Fast forward to now, and you'll get two weeks out of any non-smart phone.
- onli 13y agoThat is not true. If you bought a bigger battery, you could have 3 weeks 10 years ago (I had). And even without, 1-2 for a mobile phone was normal.
- nodata 13y agoWhich phones had 2 weeks battery life back then? Do you mean only on standby, or normal use?
- onli 13y agoThat one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5100 (10 days, standby). I had the 5120 for ages with a better battery from ebay, that came closer to my claims.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoEven the extended batteries were like a Boba Fett jetpack on the back of your phone and increased the size substantially. Most of the power users I knew (2,000+ minutes/month) would still burn through the battery in short order anyways. They'd get maybe an extra 6 hours, but not 2 weeks worth.
- danbee 13y agoTen years ago I'd get around 7 days out of my Sony J70.
- higherpurpose 13y agoYou had 2 weeks of "standby time" battery life, but in practice it was more like 3-4 days. I agree all OEMs should be pushing for 48+ hours of battery life, though, at the cost of performance or even higher resolutions and whatnot. Because when they'll promise 2 days of battery life, heavy users will still get only like 1, because with the phones promising 24h of battery life now, heavy users get like half of that. It would be great if everyone could get at least 24h of battery life, which means the "average" battery life should be 48h or more.
- alandarev 13y ago3100 mAh shall actually be around 2 days of semi-heavy use. Owning Nexus 4 and 5, they both exceed two days of normal use or 1 day of heavy use, but the advertised oneplus one is going to have extraordinarly larger battery. So I would say, expect it last two full days as long as you are not overly heavy mobile user. Yes, not two weeks, but dumbphones never lasted two weeks back these days. Honestly the new smartphones are finally catching up with reasonable battery life expectations than two years ago.
- rayiner 13y agoHow do you get 2 days of normal use out of an N5? Mine (t-mobile) makes it about 15 hours with 2-3 hours of screen time before hitting the red.
- alandarev 13y agoStock apps, disabled Google+ (it was causing CPU usage spikes on both phoens randomly), minimal/no services running in the background. My daily usage usually consits of (accumulated): 30min browsing, 1h hangouts, 2h podcasts/music (though pre-downloaded by wifi), 1 minute calls (yes I sometimes use it for calling). Let me say that 2 days is when I am gentle with the phone, otherwise it is around 1.5. In any case, a huge difference to how were the first smartphones hardly surviving until the evening.
- arjie 13y agoYou can still get 2 weeks of battery life. Get a Nokia 1100. It's a trade-off, mate. You're standing at a Lamborghini showroom and saying, "Man, does anyone else here remember when cars used to give us 21 kilometres to the litre?"
- listic 13y agoNo need to go back that far. 1202 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php is even better, I believe. Seriously, I was using it until last week, when I decided it's time for a smartphone.
- sergiosgc 13y agoNo one says that. Either you say it strangely: "50mpg" or you say it correctly: "5L/100km". If you use imperial units, you must invert every fraction in your life as punishment.
- jchendy 13y ago"In countries using the metric system fuel economy is stated in kilometres per litre (km/L)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency
- aianus 13y agoThe German car I bought in Canada shows fuel consumption in L/100km. I've never seen km/L before.
- afterburner 13y agoNot my experience in Canada. L/100km
- brazzy 13y agoBelieve me: absolutely nobody uses km/l, ever.
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- rtpg 13y agoturn off data connections and wifi and you can get a couple of days worth of battery life.
- sp332 13y agoThe Lumia 900 gets about a week of battery life. It's the flagship Windows Phone 7 phone so everything runs smoothly. It has nice screen that's readable in direct sunlight, and it's fairly indestructible so you don't have to flinch if you drop it.