Four Smartphones with the Longest Battery Life
Smartphones are much loved for their wide functionality and flashy glitz, but all those features take tons of energy, and before you know it, you’re smartphone’s out of juice. Unless you’re always within 10 feet of a power outlet, you’ll want to choose the smartphone with the best battery life – not just the one with the prettiest screen.
Luckily, CNET Labs conducted extensive apples-to-apples battery life tests on the top smartphones and picked out the longest lasting smartphone batteries. Here are the results:
Samsung i8910 Omnia HD from Verizon Wireless
The Samsung Omnia has a standard Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery with a rated 600 hours of standby on 2G and up to 450 hours standby for 3G. Talk time, it gets about 13 hours and 30 minutes on 2g and 6 and a half hours on 3G.
BlackBerry Curve 8900 from T-Mobile
The official specs on the BlackBerry Curve 8900, which has a 1400 mAHr cryptographic lithium cell battery, say that the smartphone gets 5 and a half hours of talk time and 356 hours of standby. Note that the Curve doesn’t support 3G, which helps give it a boost in the longevity department.
Nokia E71x from AT&T
The Nokia E71x packs a BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po battery. A GSM phone, the Nokia gets 5 hours talk and 13.5 days standby (2G or 2.5G mode). Meanwhile, when you use the WCDMA network (3G), you’re looking at 4 hours and 30 minutes talk time with 12.5 days standby.
HTC Touch Pro2 from T-Mobile
The HTC Touch Pro2’s battery is also a 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery that can hop on the GSM (2.5G or 2G) network for 510 minutes (8 and a half hours) of talk time and 500 hours of standby or the WCDMA (3G) network for 390 minutes (6 and a half hours) of talk time and 750 hours of standby.
Note that the rated specs is the information given directly by the manufacturer. Your mileage will certainly vary, depending on the coverage of your network (it takes more battery to search for service) and the features you’ll be using (the Nokia E71x will run out of juice after 20 hours of MP3 playback). Rest assured that CNET Labs did do their own tests on these four phones and found them to be quite long-lasting, in spite of their rated battery lives.
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