Samsung Juke Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Robin Liss Published on November 05, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (4.20)
We test call time by connecting to the phone via Skype. We then play back audio tracks over both ends in order to simulate a conversation. We then let these tracks loop until the battery dies. The Juke only put up with this for about 3 hours and 30 minutes, which is below average. As you can see on the chart, most phones tend to last about five hours. If you tend to get into long conversations, or you're planning on taking a trip with the Juke, you'll need to have a charger on hand constantly.
We actually tested call time quite a few times for the Juke, as Verizon claims it can last nine hours. The 3 hours and 30 minutes result we went with was actually the maximum time we were able to squeeze out of it, though all our results were in this area. We're not sure how Verizon arrived at this number.
| Cell Phone | Talk Time | Score |
| Samsung Juke | 3 hours, 30 minutes | 4.20 |
| LG Chocolate Vx8550 | 4 hours, 43 minutes | 5.66 |
| Sony Ericsson W580i | 4 hours, 25 minutes | 5.30 |
| Razr2 V9m | 4 hours, 45 minutes | 5.70 |
| Samsung Blast | 4 hours, 3 minutes | 4.86 |
| Apple iPhone | 7 hours, 4 minutes | 8.48 |
Music Playback (7.75)
Music playback testing is simple: we put a playlist to loop and leave it playing. The Juke sang for about 7 hours and 45 minutes before calling it a night. This is on the underside of average, as most phones typically last between eight and nine hours, with a fair chunk lasting longer. We understand it's small, but given how the Juke is supposed to be a music device, we would've liked a bit more from its battery here.
| Cell Phone | Music Playback Time | Score |
| Samsung Juke | 7 hours, 45 minutes | 5.58 |
| LG Chocolate Vx8550 | 13 hours, 55 minutes | 10.02 |
| Sony Ericsson W580i | 5 hours, 35 minutes | 4.02 |
| Razr2 V9m | 8 hours, 55 minutes | 6.42 |
| Samsung Blast | 9 hours, 37 minutes | 6.92 |
| Apple iPhone | 10 hours, 46 minutes | 7.75 |
Web Browsing (0.0)
We normally test Web browsing by visiting a series of pages that redirect to each other every 10 seconds. As the Juke has no browser, we found we couldn't do this. So, it gets a zero in this section.
Idle Time unscored
We don't test idle time since it would take months to get a good set of numbers. Verizon claims the Juke can last 250 hours, which is about 11 days.
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