Palm Treo 755p Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
Call Time (6.06)
To test the battery performance of the Treo 755p during a call we make a phone call using Skype and pipe an audio book over the connection to simulate conversation. The Treo 755p lasted 5 hours 3 minutes in our talk time test, which is an above average time. You can see below that a couple of phones did better than the Treo 755p but most performed worse. In particular we found that the Treo 755p performed better in this test than the Windows Mobile Treo 750, which has the same form factor and the same size battery.
Music Playback (6.04)
To test battery life while playing back music we set a test album to play repeatedly and time how long the phone lasts before the battery runs out. The Treo 755p lasted 8 hours 23 minutes in our music playback test. Once again we've seen better from other handsets, as you can see below, but don't let our comparison handsets fool you. Most phones out there don't last this long and we were pretty happy with the Treo 755p's performance here. On the other hand you'll note that one of the handsets that beats out the Treo 755p is the Windows Mobile Treo 750. So far these handsets, which only differ in their operating systems, are tied in our battery tests.
Web Browsing (5.96)
Web browsing battery performance is tested by pointing the phone's browser at a web page that is set to refresh automatically every ten seconds. We make sure the screen stays on and see how long the phone lasts. The Treo 755p performed admirably in this test at 4 hours 58 minutes. You can see below that only the Curve and the Sidekick LX performed better on this test, and both of those handsets use the much more battery efficient EDGE network. By contrast the Treo 755p uses Sprint's high speed EVDO network. For a comparison to another phone that uses a 3G network just look at how poorly the Treo 750 did on AT&T's 3G network in this test. It looks like the Treo 755p comes out the winner between those two very similar handsets in terms of battery life.
Idle Time unscored
In order to deliver reviews in a timely fashion we don't test standby time for cell phones. Palm reports the Treo 755p's idle time at 240 hours.
