Reviews for it seem pretty good. I’ve been getting mixed reviews across the board on all the nokia phones regarding internal GPS though in terms of acquisition speed/lock time and wonder if I could get away with using the AGPS function with my cheapy $6/month WAP-only internet. Some folks can, a lot more can’t.
N95-4 v20 seems pretty nifty as well. Not a bad way to cash in on a stimulus check.
Do you always have good reception or are their locations that you know you will not have reception? If so, turn your phone off in locations you know you won’t have reception. Not having reception will put your phone in a persistent searching-for-signal state that eats up battery like mad.
Also, does it have bluetooth? Do you use a bluetooth headset? If yes and no, then you can disable this and save a bit of power too.
my battery drained so fast on the N82, I think it is cause i left my wifi wlan search on, bluetooth as well, and was using gps for short random stupid trips just to test it out.
Do you always have good reception or are their locations that you know you will not have reception? If so, turn your phone off in locations you know you won’t have reception. Not having reception will put your phone in a persistent searching-for-signal state that eats up battery like mad.
Also, does it have bluetooth? Do you use a bluetooth headset? If yes and no, then you can disable this and save a bit of power too.
really, is my phone constantly searching for reception even when it’s just sitting in my purse? I am in the hospital a lot and reception seems to be poor there.
I don’t think its out yet and at it’s current preorder price, $800 is pretty much ridiculous. I’d maybe look at it once it drops below $600.
joey - 29 May 2008 01:03 PM
kwalan - 29 May 2008 10:47 AM
Do you always have good reception or are their locations that you know you will not have reception? If so, turn your phone off in locations you know you won’t have reception. Not having reception will put your phone in a persistent searching-for-signal state that eats up battery like mad.
Also, does it have bluetooth? Do you use a bluetooth headset? If yes and no, then you can disable this and save a bit of power too.
really, is my phone constantly searching for reception even when it’s just sitting in my purse? I am in the hospital a lot and reception seems to be poor there.
no bluetooth, I don’t think.
If you have good reception, the rate that it verifies that there is reception is a lot lower and thus, less power consumption. For some phones, it can be pretty extreme. It took my 4 day standby phone down to less than 2 days back in my earlier years of college. If people need to reach you while in the hospital, perhaps it might be better off to set call forwarding to a landline phone you readily have access to and then shut your phone off. Some phones can be put in offline mode, where the phone is on but not searching for signal or attempting to either. This saves quite a bit of power and for some phones that have an obscenely long startup time, makes it much quicker to restore the phone to online status.
I don’t think its out yet and at it’s current preorder price, $800 is pretty much ridiculous. I’d maybe look at it once it drops below $600.
joey - 29 May 2008 01:03 PM
kwalan - 29 May 2008 10:47 AM
Do you always have good reception or are their locations that you know you will not have reception? If so, turn your phone off in locations you know you won’t have reception. Not having reception will put your phone in a persistent searching-for-signal state that eats up battery like mad.
Also, does it have bluetooth? Do you use a bluetooth headset? If yes and no, then you can disable this and save a bit of power too.
really, is my phone constantly searching for reception even when it’s just sitting in my purse? I am in the hospital a lot and reception seems to be poor there.
no bluetooth, I don’t think.
If you have good reception, the rate that it verifies that there is reception is a lot lower and thus, less power consumption. For some phones, it can be pretty extreme. It took my 4 day standby phone down to less than 2 days back in my earlier years of college. If people need to reach you while in the hospital, perhaps it might be better off to set call forwarding to a landline phone you readily have access to and then shut your phone off. Some phones can be put in offline mode, where the phone is on but not searching for signal or attempting to either. This saves quite a bit of power and for some phones that have an obscenely long startup time, makes it much quicker to restore the phone to online status.
Which make/model do you have?
I think that’s semi true, if you kinda register and lose reception and register again etc.
I think what you experienced in college doesn’t apply much in most places anymore. I had that too, but usually it was due to your phone falling off the digital CDMA or GSM network back onto the old analog cellular network that was still around then. Using the analog network required more power and would drain batteries significantly faster. If you were in some region where the digital coverage was poor, you’d have crap battery life.
I think that’s semi true, if you kinda register and lose reception and register again etc.
I think what you experienced in college doesn’t apply much in most places anymore. I had that too, but usually it was due to your phone falling off the digital CDMA or GSM network back onto the old analog cellular network that was still around then. Using the analog network required more power and would drain batteries significantly faster. If you were in some region where the digital coverage was poor, you’d have crap battery life.
It was with a Nokia 8290, a digital-only phone. The AT&T;then-CDMA 8260 version was a bit larger and supported an analog mode . To this day, even on my N70, if I’m going to hit the slopes, I might as well turn it into offline mode or it’ll drain the battery searching for signal the whole day. But yeah, in my freshman dorm, I’d maybe get a bar for a few seconds if placed high up against the window and would usually run the battery out within a day or two. When I moved out into an apartment a few blocks away, I’d get 4 bars and easily 3-4 days of standby. When I switched to my verizon phone in ‘02-05, I experienced the digital/analog switch and always had funktastic inconsistent battery life.
I remember with my old nextel phone, i was able to buy this large extended battery life thingermabobber. it lasted me 6 days before it needed a recharge. pretty sweet
