Motorola W315 Prepaid Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Richard Baguley Published on December 29, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (2.84)
For this test, we call the handset using Skype and play a simulated phone conversation over the connection, going in both directions. We then time how long the fully charged phone can last before shutting off. The W315 only lasted a very dissapointing 2 hours and 22 minutes in this test, one of the shortest batery lives that we have found in our tests. But this is not unexpected; the smaller case of the W315 doesn't leave that much room for batteries, and we saw similarly poor performacne from other small phones such as the Razr V3m 2 hours 41 minutes) and the Nokia N75 (2 hours 21 minutes). And perhaps this is a blessing in disguise; if you are paying several cents a minute for the call, the appaling battery life could provide you with a good excuse to get off the phone.
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| Motorola W315 on Verizon | 2 hours, 22 minutes | 2.84 |
| LG Chocolate VX8550 (on Verizon) | 4 hours 43 minutes | 5.66 |
| Motorola Razr V3m | 2 hours, 41 minutes | 3.22 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 on AT&T | 7 hours 24 minutes | 8.88 |
| Nokia N75 | 2 hours, 23 minutes | 2.86 |
| T-Mobile Dash | n/a | n/a |
Music Playback (0.00)
We test music playback battery life by setting a reference album playing on repeat, then timing how long it keeps playing. However, there was no way to get our test album onto the W315, so it couldn't perform this test.
Web Browsing (0.0)
For Web browsing, we use a series of web pages that automatically refresh every 10 seconds. However, the W315 does not come with a web browser, so there was no way to perform this test.
Idle Time unscored
In order to ensure that we deliver reviews in a timely fashion we do not test idle time, which can run several days. Motorola quotes the idle time as 212 hours, which is just under 9 days.
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