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Interesting battery life observation |
meducate
Joined: May 19, 2003
Posts: 13
From: New York
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When I am at home in the US using T-Mobile, my battery drains very quickly-- with normal phone use and web browsing I find that my battery doesn't last the day. While I have been here in the UK, first in Glasgow and now in Birmingham, roaming on 02, T-Mobile UK, and Vodaphone, I find that my battery is lasting much, much longer and with MORE use! Wonder if this means that the battery drain is network specific. Anyone have an idea? | |
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sxt173
Joined: Mar 24, 2003
Posts: 189
From: USA
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Battery drain is not directly network specific. It is network strength specific. For example, if you go camping in the US and you only have 1-2 bars on Voice network and intermitten GPRS, your battery might drain in a day even if you don't use phone at all. The phone is working harder to keep a connection or has to keep on re-searching every time connection drops.
If you are standing in the middle of Times Square, New York, your phone will probably do the max battery life promised in the specs.
So, probably when you are in the UK, it has a wide choice of different carriers it can roam with, so it just chooses the strongest all the time, thus very little battery usage for that. |
davo87
Joined: Mar 22, 2003
Posts: 204
From: UK
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It seems to be that the UK has very good network coverage compared to other countries, my mobile nearly always has full signal and active GPRS and i live in a small town 12 miles away from the nearest medium sized city. However in many other countries (spain, france etc.) network coverages is not so good and wen i roam i tend to get a low signal and i very rarely get gprs, even in big cities
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Posted: 2003-07-14 19:39
