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Would nokia phones running windows phone os get better battery life than the other windows phones?
This is hard to answer definitively, but my speculation is, no. The OS for the most part will remain the same apart from a few added services, so, same OS same battery usage. The battery drain will rely on what every other Windows Phone relies on; hardware. Size and type of screen, brightness settings, size of battery in terms of mAh etc.Would nokia phones running windows phone os get better battery life than the other windows phones?
True, however that's when Nokia makes them... I have a selling that the quality we've come to expect from Nokia will not make it into Windows Phone: http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2011/06/24/compal-becomes-windows-phone-7-odm-will-fulfill-nokia-and-acer-orders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mobiletechworld+%28MobileTechWorld%29Nokia does have some of the best battery life in the business though, and a lot of that is from decades of engineering and experimenting. I would say that a high end Nokia Windows Phone will be more efficient than you see in manufacturers like HTC & Samsung using the same screen size & battery, as there is also the quality of engineering which has an effect on battery efficiency.
How well it utilizes the battery & how little waste it has can be different depending on the design & specifications. Just like a car or anything else. It can have the same horsepower & size engine, the same size frame, and one will be more gas efficient. One of the reasons I was excited about Nokia coming on board was their battery efficiency in addition to the build quality and cameras on their upper end devices.
Yeah I gathered that from my other thread lol. Regardless though manufacturers like HTC and Samsung aren't complete idiots, of course they strive for battery life as well when testing the OS on their devices, and these OEMs have had more time with Windows Phone than Nokia in general, so I don't believe Nokia will be pulling miracles here. I can understand why their battery life was so great with their own operating system, that's because they wrote it themselves and have had such a long time coding for it. Windows Phone is a new endeavor and even if Microsoft gave them more info than they gave regular OEMs, word doesn't beat experience. So when Nokia launches chances are it'll have a similar battery life as these HTC and Samsung second wave devices coming out, or only ever so slightly better that most people won't notice it. Wave 3 of devices running Apollo sometime in late 2012 yes I might believe better battery life but not with mango.Compal will have nothing to do with battery life. They are simply the assembler. Like a Toyota plant building a GM car. Actually I think something like that is already happening somewhere. Sharing resources to reduce costs. It's simple economics.
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Better battery life at that point may be a cumulative effect of apps being written for Mango/Apollo which have natively more aggressive power conservation and the processors being a bit lower specced than Android. It'll be interesting to see instances of where Mango's power management becomes a hindrance for us power users. I think Microsoft's set some excellent goals but I do think it's inevitable that the compromises they've made will be more apparent to those of us who really demand our devices do a lot. It'll also be interesting to see what hacks work around these methods, and the actual versus perceived benefits they provide.Wave 3 of devices running Apollo sometime in late 2012 yes I might believe better battery life but not with mango.
This is the biggest pain in my *** about smartphone manufacturers. Is that they don't do anything about the batteries they use, whether they build them themselves or have someone else build them either way they should play an active role in trying to get battery tech to advance.and batteries aren't going to increase in power any time soon.
Current battery tech is an electrochemical process. There's only so much power they can output while still using a process with easily-disposable materials. For the forseable future, it's much easier to make components small and more energy efficient, and of course to do things in software as MS is doing.This is the biggest pain in my *** about smartphone manufacturers. Is that they don't do anything about the batteries they use, whether they build them themselves or have someone else build them either way they should play an active role in trying to get battery tech to advance.
That's exactly what I'm saying! I mean yeah Nokia kicks *** and everything but they ain't miracle workers lol I don't expect much more in the battery department.What type of battery life are you all expecting. With doing so much on my cellphone constantly, I'm happy to make it 8 hours.
What type of battery life are you all expecting. With doing so much on my cellphone constantly, I'm happy to make it 8 hours.
The N95 was a game changer in its day. I forgave the crappy battery life given all the technology packed into that thing.There are Nokia phones, especially N series phones like the N80, 95 etc which had useless battery life, so who knows.
That's exactly what I'm saying! I mean yeah Nokia kicks *** and everything but they ain't miracle workers lol I don't expect much more in the battery department.
My Atrix did 10 hours, easily with poor service at my workplace. 14 hours at home and about when having good service. Both of which I'd have about 30% battery life left.
So I am hoping and wanting the same or better. My iPhone 4 eats all for dinner when it comes to battery life (minus Nokia devices as I haven't used a smartphone from them recently and can't comment). I can get a day and half with my iPhone.
Also note, I'm a heavy user. Get tons of email from CrackBerry, my work, personal (notifications from all my social networks), twittering, SMS (had 10K two months ago, haven't checked last month yet) and tons of other stuff. Also thing I don't use on iPhone that would probably make a difference (worse) would be navigation like I do on Android devices.