Palm Treo 750 Cell Phone Review - Battery Life
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Alfredo Padilla Published on March 17, 2007 Comment on this |
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Call Time (4.76)
To measure battery performance during calls we make a call to the phone using skype and then play an audio book over the connection to simulate speech. We then time how long the phone lasts before it shuts down. The Palm Treo 750 came in right at the manufacturer’s stated talk time of 4 hours, lasting 3 hours and 58 minutes in our test. This is slightly below the Treo 700p’s talk time of 4 hours and 15 minutes, this despite the fact that the battery in the 750 is roughly two thirds the size of the 700p’s battery. The Blackberry 8703e did significantly better at 5 hours and 23 minutes. 4 hours of talk time is near the bottom of what we would find acceptable from a business oriented phone like the 750. We wish that Palm could have squeezed a slightly higher capacity battery in. Extra and extended batteries are available for the 750, although the extended battery adds significant bulk to the handset. It should be noted that our test was run while the Treo was connected to Cingular’s 3G network, you may be able to get more talk time if you are in a 2G only coverage area or if you change the phone settings to only use 2G.
Music Playback (11.08)
To test battery performance when playing music, we loop an album and then time how long it takes for the device to power down. All settings are left to their default, so in the case of the Treo 750 the screen did eventually shut itself off while music played in the background. The Palm Treo 750 lasted a very impressive 15 hours and 23 minutes. By contrast the Palm Treo 700p lasted 8 hours and 8 minutes and the Motorola Q only 5 hours and 25 minutes. We were very pleased with the music playback score for the Treo 750. The long battery life combined with a high capacity MiniSD card make the 750 a solid music device in addition to a good business phone.
Web Browsing (3.66)
To test how long a phone lasts when browsing the web we point the browser at a website that refreshes itself automatically every 10 seconds. We make sure that the screen does not go off either through settings or manually. The Treo 750 lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes in our web browsing test. This is an extremely poor score and is most likely caused by a combination of battery intensive 3G data along and the smaller 1200 mAh battery. By contrast the Treo 700p on Sprint's EVDO network lasted almost a full hour loner in our web browsing test, reflecting the much larger 1900 mAh battery.
Idle Time (not included in rubric)
In the interest of ensuring timely reviews, we did not test the Palm Treo 750’s standby time. The manufacturer’s rated standby time is 10 days 10 hours.
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