Motorola Q 9m Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Mark Brezinski Published on December 31, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (4.56)
The Q 9m was capable of enduring a nonstop conversation for 3 hours, 48 minutes, an hour and change short of average. For a smart phone, this time typically indicates one of two things: that the phone uses a 3G connection, which is faster and drains battery quicker, or that the smart phone is a budget option. In this case, the latter is true. The time is not so low as to be debilitating, but it's also low enough to force users to be mindful of how long they listen to music.
| Cell Phone | Talk Time | Score |
| Motorola Q 9m | 3 hours, 48 minutes |
4.56 |
| Palm Centro | 4 hours, 8 minutes |
4.96 |
| Motorola Q | 3 hours, 49 minutes |
4.58 |
| Pantech Duo | 4 hours, 20 minutes |
5.20 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 7 hours, 24 minutes |
8.88 |
| Nokia N95 with 3G | 3 hours, 42 minutes |
4.44 |
Music Playback (3.71)
The Motorola MOTO Q music 9m, as Verizon calls it, has a pretty pitiful music playback battery life: 5 hours and 9 minutes. A good stretch of music playback will last around eight hours, so you can see only one phone in the table below could be viably used as a music device. Battery life is important for every phone, but especially music handsets, as the Q 9m is being marketed as for some reason. If the phone can only get a few hours of music playback, chances are you're going to wind up with a dead battery by the time you need to make a call.
We test music playback by setting a playlist to loop and the volume to maximum, then recording the decibel output. We use this recording to find the total time the music player was actually playing.
| Cell Phone | Music Playback Time | Score |
| Motorola Q 9m | 3.71 | 5 hours, 9 minutes |
| Palm Centro | 4.88 | 6 hours, 47 minutes |
| Motorola Q | 3.90 | 5 hours, 25 minutes |
| Pantech Duo | 3.52 | 4 hours, 53 minutes |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 8.66 | 12 hours, 2 minutes |
| Nokia N95 with 3G | 3.16 | 4 hours, 23 minutes |
Web Browsing (4.92)
The Q 9m's battery was able to repel an assault of web pages for 4 hours, 6 minutes before it was overtaken. This is just shy of average. Typically we like phones to last around 4.5 hours or more. Browsing the web is a very battery-intensive activity since the phone is constantly performing data transfers. Again, it should be noted that the Q 9m will shut off its radio connections when its battery is low.
Our web browsing test first requires the brightness on the screen to be turned to max, and the display's dim needs to be turned off. We then browse to our secret ring of pages that automatically redirect to each other every ten seconds.
| Cell Phone | Browsing Time | Score |
| Motorola Q 9m | 4 hours, 6 minutes | 4.92 |
| Palm Centro | 4 hours, 22 minutes | 5.24 |
| Motorola Q | 2 hours, 42 minutes | 3.24 |
| Pantech Duo | 3 hours, 14 minutes | 3.88 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 9 hours, 43 minutes | 11.66 |
| Nokia N95 with 3G | 6 hours, 12 minutes | 7.44 |
Idle Time unscored
We don't score idle time because it'd take weeks or months to get a reliable data set. As such, we typically defer to the carrier (unless their time seems ridiculous). They claim the phone will last 212 hours on standby. Assuming you haven't set the backlight to stay on, this seems like a good estimate.
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