Nokia N95

[sand_man]

What's the battery life for the N95 ?

I'm a big SE fan, I'm learning more towards the K850i, I almost fell in love with the N95, but I read the battery lasts for a day, if you're lucky, with average use.

With heavy use a day yes but what's ones definition of heavy use? I reckon about 2 hours worth of phone calls over the duration of the day with about 20-30 sms's and you'll be down to low battery by early evening.

I'm not sure one should be using their phone for more than 2 hours a day though. That's a lot of calls. If you going to browse the web or stay logged onto Mxit for extended periods, take photo's and use the phone as an mp3 player, leave your bluetooth on, then I reckon you would be lucky to get 7 hours out of a fully charged battery but that's extreme useage I'm talking about.

Moderate useage 2 days no problems... 3 Days if you switch the phone off over night (I leave mine in offline mode so I can check the time during the course of the night and early morning).

I was also keen on the k850i but I'm not sure it's in the same league as the N95. Thing with Nokias though is they tend to be pushing the envelope with apps and technology a bit and as a result I find their phones a bit tempremental at times but usually nothing a software upgrade won't fix...

 

[kwaggawerner]

To be honest, the phone is a king when it comes to tech features, its the first phone to feature such a large screen with a intergrated GPS, lots of onboard ram, and you get a 1 gig microsd card with the phone, it has stereo speakers and the sound/signal processor is very good for decoding audio signals, again not Ipod quality, but close to it. There are other great functions as well, such as Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, bluetooth processing is fast, and you can specify bluetooth rules quickly. It has a 400mhz cpu, and it has a powerful GPU.

Now for the negatives: BATTERY! BATTERY! BATTERY! the phone is hungry, as is very hungry, I have had to phone now for about 7 months, and I'm not a heavy user when it comes to calls, say +- 12 a day... and another +- 30 SMS'es a day, and about an hour on mxit at night, all this will drain your battery very quickly. If its a busy day, then I will charge the phone in the morning, and again in the late afternoon.... and the battery meter, doesn't give you very accurate readings, one moment it would be at three bars, and the next its shouting at you for energy food... and during that time, I didnt do anything...

Another big drainer is bluetooth, on busy days I keep it on, but hidden, so that in can sync with all the other toys, i.e PC, PDA, etc... just keeping the bluetooth on, and by not hiding it, is enough to drain your battery very very quickly.

The SE range of 'multimedia' phones are much better at power management than the Nokia range. The nokia N95 also has a very powerful battery, and even that isnt enough.

AND! The phone housing creaks.... that's about the most irritating feature of the phone...

All in all.... it's a powerful phone, its almost at the same level as a windows-phone, but alas it isnt. I just wish symbian would allow people to install Linux OS'es on it.... ;(

Nokia says it's what computer have become... that is true, to some extent...


lol, the CPU is faster than my first computer by almost three times....






Hope some of this helped!

Peace out.

-Kwagga