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3G Phone Battery Life

  • 05-09-2006 10:55am
    #1
    bringitdown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭


    My SE K610i failed me at Electric Picnic, 48 hours with maybe 30 texts / 10 calls of short duration, died on Saturday night. Meanwhile all my 2/2.5G mates were happily juiced up.

    Is this common or is it that my phone sucks? Very tempted to go back to talk and text!


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  • #2
    skearon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭skearon


    bringitdown wrote:
    My SE K610i failed me at Electric Picnic, 48 hours with maybe 30 texts / 10 calls of short duration, died on Saturday night. Meanwhile all my 2/2.5G mates were happily juiced up.

    Is this common or is it that my phone sucks? Very tempted to go back to talk and text!

    3G always uses more power than GSM.

    if you dont plan on video calling, fast internet etc, most phones can be set in a GSM only mode, ths will improve your battery life


  • #3
    neilled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭neilled


    bringitdown wrote:
    My SE K610i failed me at Electric Picnic, 48 hours with maybe 30 texts / 10 calls of short duration, died on Saturday night. Meanwhile all my 2/2.5G mates were happily juiced up.

    Is this common or is it that my phone sucks? Very tempted to go back to talk and text!

    Common enough for a 3g handset.


  • #4
    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    Not all 3G phones have bad battery life, though many do, especially earlier models. I find my SE V600i to have good battery life, and it's a 3G phone.

    Like "skearon" said, try setting your phone to GSM, and see if that makes a difference. You'll obviously lose the extra features (and potentially higher voice quality) offered by 3G, but you can always switch back.


  • #5
    neilled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭neilled


    Urban Weigl wrote:
    Not all 3G phones have bad battery life, though many do, especially earlier models. I find my SE V600i to have good battery life, and it's a 3G phone.

    Like "skearon" said, try setting your phone to GSM, and see if that makes a difference. You'll obviously lose the extra features (and potentially higher voice quality) offered by 3G, but you can always switch back.

    Well i should elaborate - they have comparitively less compared to a regular gsm. I have two 3g handsets, a k608i (the cousin of your v600) and a k800i. With my useage and bluetooth on i find that three days is the most that could be got from the k800, a bit more for the k608i, but i tend not to let my battery levels drop below 20% so i charge them more often.


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