LG Shine KE970 Review - Battery Life
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Richard Baguley Published on April 25, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (8.7)
LG claims a battery life of around 2 hours from the small 800MAh battery that comes with the KE970, but we found these claims to be rather pessimistic; in our tests, the battery lasted for an impressive 7 hours 15 minutes. We have found that GSM phones seem to have a longer battery life than CDMA ones, but this is an impressive battery life however you look at it.
Music Playback (4.45)
Playing back our test MP3 file from a MicroSD card, the KE970 kept on playin’ for 6 hours and 11 minutes. For a compact phone, that’s not a bad score; it is longer than the Razr V3m, which ran out of juice after just 4 hours and 23 minutes. But the battery life of the KE970 is nothing to write home about; the battery life is well short of the amazing 25 hours and 34 minutes of the Sprint Sidekick or the impressive
Web Browsing (8.08)
Our web browsing test sets the phone repeatedly loading a web page, simulating how a user would user the phone to browse the web; load a page, read it for a bit, click on a link, etc. the KE970 was able to keep browsing for an impressive 6 hours and 44 minutes. That’s a good time for browsing, and contrarily enough, the slow speed of the EDGE data connection it uses helps here; EDGE connections use less battery power than their faster EVDO or UMTS cousins.
Idle Time
We don't test the idle time score, but LG claims a standby battery life of 320 hours (around 13 days)
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