07-17-2007, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: 06-01-2007
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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PDAPhone: i730 WM5
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Originally Posted by ChuckG
I'm hoping that Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others take some time to analyze what apple did with the iphone in terms of battery life because it seems truly amazing.
This excerpt from Engadget's review of the iPhone:
"The biggest upshot we found on the media playback, though, was the iPhone's Herculean battery life. We've seen other reviews' media playback results vary, but ours seemed to jump far ahead of even Apple's lofty expectations.
Playing relatively high bitrate VGA H.264 videos, our iPhone lasted almost exactly 9 freaking hours of continuous playback with cell and WiFi on (but Bluetooth off). Yeah, we had to pick our jaws up off the floor, too. So by our tests, you could watch a two hour movie and drain off a little more than 22% of the battery -- totally acceptable for trip-taking and the like.
Our music testing showed similarly outstanding results. Playing back 160-192Kbps MP3s, our iPhone pushed about 29 hours and 30 minutes music playback. To put that in perspective, the Apple claims the iPod nano gets about 24 hours playback on a full charge, and the iPod a scant 14 - 20 hours.
To do a little simple math, you could watch two hours of video, listen to 8 straight hours of music, and still have only drained off less than half your device's capacity -- that is, if your iPhone's battery works as well as ours. (Read: your battery life may differ.) Still, if that's a good estimate of what users can expect from their device's power drain, you should have little issue making the iPhone your music and video player, in addition to your cellphone."
So the technology is here! From what I understand the iPhone is using a plain ol' lithium ion battery like the rest of us, but they've somehow managed to coax that kind of battery life with ultra low voltage processors and whatnot, other manufacturers need to take notice and implement similar improvements please!
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That is amazing! 9 Hours! Wow!
The biggest problem is that the manufacturers want to keep feeding the desire for a small form factor. That is not a problem at all! I say keep on doing what you are doing manufacturers. But it would also seem that they would want to do some focus group testing on non-tech people. Like me! I have absolutely zero need for a camera in my PDA phone. As a matter of fact it is not allowed in many of the manufacturing plants of my customers! I use my PDA note function, voice recording, as well as my PowerPoint while I am in the building with customers.
Again, I agree with you guys about battery life. Onboard memory is nice too but give me the juice! There is no reason that an 1800 milliamp or even 2000 milliamp can't be put into one of these as a STANDARD battery. Just stretch it out in stead of making it so wide. That was the downfall of the Moto Q. You had about 30 minutes of use with that thing! (Well maybe not that short but you get the idea). I still won't go back to AT&T though. When they bought Cingular that just sunk them. The AT&T customer DISSERVICE is legendary and a whole other thread.
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