Monday, October 03, 2005
Fashion vs the batteryM
As intimated in previous posts, I've recently bought a new phone, moving from my trusty Nokia 6310i to something I hope will be just as reliable: Nokia's 6230i. My old phone had no camera, no colour screen, no music player, no radio. My new phone has all these things. it's great. I love it. But the problem is, I can't love it for as long. The battery on my old phone would give me at least 7 days standby, and would easily handle 15 mins of calls per day. when the battery was nearly empty, it warned me, but still gave me another 2 days of use, including calls. in 3 years of ownership, my 6310i probably shut down because of a flat battery about 10 times.
the new phone? oh dear. I'm realistic, and I suspected that all the technical wizardry in my new toy might eat up the battery a little bit quicker, but it has been rather a shock to the system to find that my new phone will only go for about 2 days on standby, and less if I'm making calls and taking photos etc. charging isn't too much of a problem, since I'm always within reach of electricity, and I have managed to accumulate 8 Nokia chargers (I'm not sure how). But why does this phone really die to quickly? and what's *really* annoying is that when it tells me the battery is low, it then shuts down without about an hour and I can't make any calls. The 6310 would magically recharge and let me make one (sometimes even 2) calls even after it had shutdown. I guess there just isn't room for that kind of redundancy in this design. it's a smaller unit, hence a smaller battery, and there's a lot more gadgetry to power. personally, I'd prefer a slightly larger handset, with a beefier battery, and the option for a low power mode that doesn't even use the screen when you're not looking at it. it's far too easy to forget to charge this phone, unless I make it a daily chore, which just feels too much like being a slave to the technology.
As intimated in previous posts, I've recently bought a new phone, moving from my trusty Nokia 6310i to something I hope will be just as reliable: Nokia's 6230i. My old phone had no camera, no colour screen, no music player, no radio. My new phone has all these things. it's great. I love it. But the problem is, I can't love it for as long. The battery on my old phone would give me at least 7 days standby, and would easily handle 15 mins of calls per day. when the battery was nearly empty, it warned me, but still gave me another 2 days of use, including calls. in 3 years of ownership, my 6310i probably shut down because of a flat battery about 10 times.
the new phone? oh dear. I'm realistic, and I suspected that all the technical wizardry in my new toy might eat up the battery a little bit quicker, but it has been rather a shock to the system to find that my new phone will only go for about 2 days on standby, and less if I'm making calls and taking photos etc. charging isn't too much of a problem, since I'm always within reach of electricity, and I have managed to accumulate 8 Nokia chargers (I'm not sure how). But why does this phone really die to quickly? and what's *really* annoying is that when it tells me the battery is low, it then shuts down without about an hour and I can't make any calls. The 6310 would magically recharge and let me make one (sometimes even 2) calls even after it had shutdown. I guess there just isn't room for that kind of redundancy in this design. it's a smaller unit, hence a smaller battery, and there's a lot more gadgetry to power. personally, I'd prefer a slightly larger handset, with a beefier battery, and the option for a low power mode that doesn't even use the screen when you're not looking at it. it's far too easy to forget to charge this phone, unless I make it a daily chore, which just feels too much like being a slave to the technology.
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