BlackBerry 8800 Review - Battery Life
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Alfredo Padilla Published on May 22, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (10.6)
To test battery performance while on a call, we make a test call to the phone using Skype. We then play an audiobook over the connection to simulate conversation. We ran the test twice with the BlackBerry 8800 on AT&T's network, and it did well in both tests, lasting 10 hours and 24 minutes in our first test and 8 hours and 50 minutes in the second. In order to be conservative, we scored the 8800 on the shorter time. Still, 8 hours and 50 minutes is better than any other phone we have tested to date. It blows away the Treo 750's 3 hours and 58 minutes, and it's significantly better than the BlackBerry 8700's 5 hours and 23 minutes. In the business world where you need your phone to be working when you need it, the 8800's excellent talk time is a huge bonus.
Music Playback (7.04)
To test battery performance when playing music, we set an album to play continuously at full volume and time how long it takes for the battery to run out. The BlackBerry 8800 continued its excellent battery performance lasting 9 hours and 47 minutes in our test. This is a very good score, but in this department, it falls below the Treo 750, which lasted 15 hours and 22 minutes in our music playback test. The 8800 lasted slightly longer than the Treo 700p (8 hours 8 minutes) and the T-Mobile Dash (7 hours 24 minutes). We like that the 8800 will easily last a cross-country flight or a long commute as your music player.
Web Browsing (10.86)
To test battery life when browsing the Web, we point the web browser at a page that is set to play a sound and refresh every 30 seconds. We make sure the screen stays on and time how long the battery lasts. The BlackBerry 8800 did well again in this battery test, lasting 9 hours and 3 minutes. This is the best time we have seen from any phone we have tested to date, beating out the T-Mobile Dash's 5 hours and 25 minutes. It lasted almost three times as long as the Treo 750 (3 hours 3 minutes), although it should be noted that the 750 browsed over a 3G connection while the 8800 only supports the slower EDGE network.
Idle Time unscored
We do not test idle time. RIM's stated standby time for the BlackBerry 8800 is 22 days (528 hours).
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