Nokia N95 Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Alfredo Padilla Published on May 08, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (6.86)
To test battery life when making calls we make a test call to the phone using Skype. We then play an audio book over the connection to simulate conversation and time how long it takes for the battery to die. The Nokia N95 lasted 5 hours and 43 minutes in our test. This is a middling score, significantly better than poor performers like the Treo 700p (4 hours 15 minutes) or Treo 750 (3 hours 58 minutes), but lagging far behind our best performers like the T-Mobile Dash's 8 hours and 20 minutes. It is also significantly worse than the Nokia N73, which lasted 7 hours and 48 minutes. This test was performed on Cingular's GSM network. As of the date this review was published our median score on this test is 5 hours and 23 minutes.
Music Playback (4.08)
To test battery life when playing back music we set an album to loop continuously at full volume and time how long it takes for the phone battery to run out. The Nokia N95 lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes in this test. This is a poor score, falling behind the T-Mobile Dash's 7 hours and 24 minutes and the Treo 700p's 8 hours and 8 minutes. It falls well short of the Nokia N73's 9 hours and 51 minutes. As of the date this review was published our median score on this test is 7 hours and 37 minutes.
Web Browsing (6.8)
We had some trouble running this test; we test by setting the web browser to browse a constantly refreshing series of web pages, but the web browser on the N95 repeatedly crashed after an hour or so of browsing. In the end, we managed to run the test by restarting the phone every hour. The battery life of the N95 in this test was acceptable, but far from outstanding; the small 950 mAh battery kept the phone browsing for 6 hours and 8 minutes. That's pretty good, but part of this is because in the USA, the N95 uses the lower EDGE connection, which uses less power than the faster HSDPA or EVDO ones that other phones use. We would expect the battery life to be much less when using a HSDPA connection.
Idle Time
We don't test the idle time, but Nokia's stated standby time for the Nokia N95 is 215 hours.
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