LG Prada Review - Battery Life
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Alfredo Padilla Published on June 25, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (9.3)
To test talk time on handsets we make a call to the phone using Skype and play an audio book over the connection to simulate conversation. We the time how long the handset lasts until the battery dies. The LG Prada lasted 7 hours 45 minutes in our talk time test. This is a very good time, better than the Nokia N95's 5 hour and 43 minute time or the Sprint Upstage's 6 hour and 37 minute time. Given that the Upstage was using the extended battery to achieve that talk time the Prada's time is even more impressive. Although it falls short of battery life stars like the T-Mobile Wing (14 hours 15 minutes) the Prada's talk time is significantly better than most handsets and impressive given the relatively small 800 mAh battery.
Music Playback (4.49)
To test battery performance when playing back music we play a test album looped at maximum volume and time how long it takes for the battery to die. The LG Prada, like some BlackBerries we have tested, shut off the music when the battery life reached an extremely low level to ensure that you can still use the handset for calls. Despite this feature the Prada still lasted 6 hours 14 minutes in our music playback test. This is a good, but not remarkable time. It falls well short of the Sprint Upstage with extended battery, which lasted an incredible 25 hours and 34 minutes, and also falls short of the T-Mobile Wing's 10 hour 26 minute time. It is better though than the Nokia N95's 5 hour 40 minute time. The Prada is not an all-star when it comes to music playback, but it is a solid handset.
Web Browsing (0.0)
To test battery life when browsing the web we point the phone's browser at a site that is set to refresh automatically every ten seconds. We then time how long it takes for the battery to run out. Unfortunately a combination of low cache memory and a poorly designed web browser made it impossible for us to run this test.; the browser would crash after five minutes. We also tried to run the test with Opera Mini, but it does not support auto refreshing web pages. After about 30 minutes of constantly exiting and restarting the browser we have to admit that we gave up. Based on our extremely limited data the Prada would have lasted five or six hours, however we don't award points for this estimate.
Idle Time unscored
In order to ensure that we release reviews in a timely fashion we do not test idle time for handsets. LG's stated standby time for the Prada is 300 hours or 12.5 days.
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