Nokia N96 Reviews - Battery Life
As promised, in Day 4 of our Nokia N96 Reviews series we will look at battery life.
Firstly, apologies, I know Day 3 was a rather long time ago … nevermind, we’re back and able to carry on with our series!
So then, battery life … when the Nokia N96 specs were first released there was a lot of debate over battery life. Many people struggled with the battery life of the original Nokia N95. Personally, I never found it tooooo bad for normal everyday use (i.e. using it as a phone) … but if you ever wanted to make use of the full features of the phone (watch videos, take photos, listen to music and make calls) it could quite easily drain through the battery quite quickly.
My personal belief is that the many firmware upgrades available for the Nokia N95-1 since release have served to better battery life. But you know, it’s the age of old issue of if you have a high tech phone you want to use it to its full advantage - not say “well I can’t do that it might kill the battery”.
So then, we’ve looked at some speculation, now, what is the real deal on battery life on the Nokia N96.
The Guru over at Symbian-Guru.Com was lucky enough to spend some time with a Nokia N96. He found that with the updated software you are able to squeeze more out of an N96 battery than you could with the N95-1 … but I think he sums it up quite well when he says this :
It seems to me that Nokia could have avoided the hassle of having to convince people that the power management is there, and could have easily eliminated alot of the negative press going around with the N96, if they’d only used this larger battery.
Please note that I’m not saying it was a tragedy to use this smaller battery, or that I think, for a non-power user, it’s really a complete dealbreaker. I’m only saying that it seems Nokia would have been better off succumbing to the users and putting the bigger battery in there from the get-go.
So then … battery life … where do we stand?
Based on the article, if you are a reasonably normal user then you are going to make it through the day very easily without having to charge your phone. If you’re a power user - i.e. if you’re watching lots of videos or listening to lots of music then, you are probably still going to make it through the day - just. But you are going to be better off if you keep a spare charger at work just in case.
And you will be hoping that Nokia puts more consideration into bigger batteries. Saving power through better software is one thing, but having a bigger battery will always feel like the better option.
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