Helio Ocean Review - Battery Life
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Richard Baguley Published on May 16, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (7.41)
The small battery of the Ocean managed just 4 hours and 7 minutes of talk time. That’s acceptable, but nothing to write home about; it is longer than the Razr V3m (at 2 hours 41 minutes) and the Motorola Q (which lasted 3 hours 49 minutes), but it’s much less than the T-Mobile dash, which lasted an impressive 8 hours and 20 minutes. We’d say that the talk time of the Ocean is good enough for a day’s work, but don’t go away for the weekend without the charger.
Music Playback (5.87)
Playing back music, the Ocean’s battery lasted 8 hours and 9 minutes. Again, that’s not the longest we’ve seen (that would be the Sprint Upstage, which lasted an incredible 25 hours, 35 minutes with the battery wallet), but it’s more than acceptable for general use; with battery life like this, the Ocean would be fine for even the longest commute.
Web Browsing (7.7)
In our rather arduous web browsing battery test, the Ocean managed to keep going for four hours and 19 minutes. That’s a middling time; it’s better than the Treo 750, but shorter than the 5 hours and 35 minutes the T-Mobile dash lasted. The web browser seemed to stop occasionally; after about an hour of browsing, it would just quit and we had to restart the browser manually.
Idle Time unscored
We don’t test the idle battery life of cell phones, but Helio quotes the idle battery life at seven days.
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