Thread: Thinking of buying an N900
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2011-02-01 , 23:35
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
I'm using the "3G/2G/Dual Mode" widget to shift the cell phone down to 2G mode most of the time, and that seems to help quite a bit on battery time for me. Then again, I'm kinda used to always keeping my battery powered devices plugged in -- I've got both an old iPhone and an older iPod, so I'm not used to a world where you can replace batteries that no longer hold a charge.

There is a wiki page with tons of power-saving tricks:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Make_your_battery_last_longer
I did a little test recently to see if keeping my N900 on 2G would save battery power. After 6 hours, the % decrease was the same as every other day, when I have it set to 3G. I think the power decrease with using 3G is only when you're actually using it for calls/data. If it's being used for other stuff, well I didn't see any difference really.