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Re: N900 battery life

The battery definitely drains significantly faster with (1) 3G and (2) heavy photography use.

Re: N900 battery life

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Originally Posted by bugelrex (Post 352790)

Can it hold 15 hours with only 3G or edge and no wifi? Its been mentioned that wifi is much easier on the battery than 3G.
Thanks!

That was piece of cake. No problem at all to achieve 15 hours with 3G use on whole time. Actually there is 3/4 of battery left. Of course I was in the region where there was good coverage of 3G.
If there is poor coverage then the battery drains very fast.

Re: N900 battery life

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Originally Posted by koivjann (Post 354527)

great news! much appreciated!! Unfortunately for those in USA, many parts of t-mobile 3G is terrible!

Re: N900 battery life

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Originally Posted by koivjann (Post 352776)

I'm test user of prototype of N900 with firmware version 41-13.

I'm very satisfied of the battery life with moderate use. The best result for me have been 60 hours. I have used all the features and the working days have been normal.

In heavy use I haven't seen any difference with earlier firmware versions. If I see a long movie and wlan continuously on then the battery holds 4 to 5 hours. In normal quite heavy use it holds easily 15 hours which is usually enough for me, cos I charge the battery every night anyway.

I'm curious wheter you connected to the GSM cellular network? and did you make calls? or was it idle and used as a tablet?

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Originally Posted by koivjann (Post 352776)

Was this usage with calls over 3g? or idle?

Hope to hear from you, gracias.

battery lifetime

Hey guys,
i was wondering if any of you knows how long battery lifetime of n900 is...do you think it could handle playing like two hours of video or audio, some web browsing and still last entire day?

Thanks, Tomas Herman

Re: battery lifetime

there have been many threads about this...search is your friend..but to answer you, yes...

Re: battery lifetime

That’s one thing that I’m really curious too.
Can any of the 300 lucky ones speak?
I’ve searched but didn’t find no topic related.

Re: battery lifetime

thanks :] looks like ill be finally able to watch Scrubs on my way to collage ;]] btw i tried to search but it didnt work out too well ( http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?searchid=5629265 ) :]

Re: battery lifetime

Here's one of such thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31394

and another one, with usage profiles included:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32785

Re: N900 battery life

i'm iphone3g's user unfortunately i'm not satisfied with the battery, mostly the battery can last about 9 or 10hrs, if the n900 can last about the same, its useless for me.

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Originally Posted by Matic (Post 323621)

My thoughts is to compare it against Iphone 3gs(i know) battery.
Since the 3gs is almost identically hardware wise it should give a good comparison. (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/c..._side_by_side/)
The Iphone 3Gs has a battery with 1219 mAh, a little less than the n900.
I have read in mac forums about this and it seems alot of people manage at least 1 day with normal usage, and some even with high usage. So i hope the n900 with its higher resolution will have about the same battery life.

Just my thoughts.