Motorola Q Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Richard Baguley Published on March 08, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (4.58)
To test the battery life of cell phones we make a call to the phone and play back an audio book (you can read more about how we test here). Although the battery of the Q is a small 1130mAh model, it didn’t score too badly in our call time test, managing 3 hours and 45 minutes talk time; not too far from Motroola’s claim for up to 4 hours of battery life. Although that isn’t the worst we’ve seen, it is somewhat shorter than most smartphones; the Palm 700p kept on working for a half hour longer than the Q. But it is longer than the 3 hours the Motorola Razr V3m managed. At under four hours, you’d need to take along a spare battery on anything but an overnight trip, while other smart phones could last you through a long weekend.
Music Playback (3.9)
The Q makes a pretty good MP3 player, so we were interested to find out that, in our tests, the battery life while playing back music was 5 hours and 25 minutes (we test this by putting an MP3 album on repeat play and running the phone until it stops playing). That’s rather on the short side: the Treo 700p kept cranking out the tunes for 8 hours. The Q’s shorter battery life would be long enough for a daily commute or short flight, but don’t expect it to last for an intercontinental flight or a typical LA commute.
Web Browsing (4.86)
Our third battery test is the web browsing test, which involves setting the device to access a constantly refreshing web page and a device that repeatedly presses the keyboard to simulate someone browsing the web on the road. This is a tough test, but the Q did pretty well, lasting for 4 hours and 3 minutes.
Idle Time (unscored)
In order to ensure that reviews are released in a timely manner we do not test standby time. Motorola's stated standby time for the Motorola Q is 212 hours.
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