T-Mobile Wing Review - Battery Life
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Alfredo Padilla Published on June 05, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (17.10)
To test call time we make a Skype phone call to the handset and play an audio book over the connection to simulate conversation. We then time how long it takes for the battery to go from full to zero. The T-Mobile Wing lasted a very impressive 14 hours and 15 minutes. The Blackberry 8800 and T-Mobile Dash both lasted over 8 hours in our test, the Wing's time is more than 50% better than either of these phones. We did run into some problems when running the call time test on the Wing, the phone hung up the call after 3 or 4 hours, forcing us to reconnect. However, if anything this makes our results a little conservative. We were extremely impressed with the battery life on the Wing, this is not a phone that's going to crap out on you because of battery life.
Music Playback (7.51)
To test battery performance when playing back music we set an album to play continuously with the volume turned up to maximum and time how long it takes for the battery to run out. The T-Mobile Wing gain demonstrated excellent battery life by lasting 10 hours and 26 minutes in our music playback test. Compared to other phones this is not as impressive as its talk time test, but is still very good. For comparison the Treo 700p lasted 8 hours 8 minutes and the BlackBerry 8800 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is not as good as the Treo 750's 15 hours and 23 minutes however.
Web Browsing (11.84)
To test battery performance when browsing the web we point the phone's web browser at a site that is set to refresh every 10 seconds. We then make sure the back light stays on and periodically hit a button to simulate real browsing. The T-Mobile Wing continued its excellent battery performance by lasting 9 hours and 52 minutes in our web browsing test. This is slightly better than our previous best the Blackberry 8800, which lasted 9 hours and 3 minutes and is better than three times as long as the Treo 750's 3 hour and 3 minute time.
It should be noted that the Wing uses the much less power intensive EDGE network, while phones like the Treo 750 have access to much faster and more power intensive 3G networks. Still, EDGE is more than sufficient for email and browsing mobile sites. We should also note that browsing using the phone's built in Wi-Fi will drain the battery much more quickly as the Wi-Fi radio uses much more power.
Idle Time unscored
In order to ensure that we deliver reviews in a timely fashion we do not test idle time. T-Mobile's stated standby time for the T-Mobile Wing is up to 6 days.
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