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| Thread ID: 119869 | 2011-08-14 03:33:00 | HTC Wildfire smartphone - battery? | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 1223061 | 2011-08-14 03:33:00 | Does anyone have an HTC Wildfire phone? I have spoken to two people with this phone - one says the battery lasts less than a day, 10 hours at best (without heavy usage use), while the other says 3 - 5 days. The Wildfire has a good price and is Android but I wonder about how long the battery lasts. :confused: | Strommer (42) | ||
| 1223062 | 2011-08-14 09:10:00 | If you leave things like gps wi fi and auto sync on and surf a lot, then yes mine on last a day. :pf1mobmini: |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1223063 | 2011-08-14 10:25:00 | Asking how long a smartphone battery will last is like asking how long a piece of string is. It entirely depends on what and how you use the phone. Don't think of it as a phone - think of it as a small-screen laptop. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1223064 | 2011-08-14 10:28:00 | Also, the Wildfire and Wildfire S I believe have different batteries. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1223065 | 2011-08-14 23:47:00 | Wildfire and Wildfire S have different batteries - which one are you looking for information on? I've used both, and think the Wildfire S has a better battery life than the original Wildfire. With data and Wi-Fi off, my Wildfire S lasts around 7 days. I used to have to be pretty ruthless with taskkiller to keep the Wildfire at decent levels. My usual tip for HTC phones is to drop the brightness a little to improve battery life, and add a Wi-Fi on/off app to your home screen to manage that more readily. |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1223066 | 2011-08-15 00:19:00 | Rather than manually managing your Wifi status, use the "Y5" app - this enables the phone to run with Wifi off, except when you are in a 'recognised/remembered' wifi area (like, at home) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1223067 | 2011-08-15 09:17:00 | Android phones are supposedly power-hungry. My LG P970 is pretty well known for its mediocre-at-best battery life. If I turned 3G on all the time and have WiFi on it will probably dip down to less then 35% with medium usage during the day before I hit bed at around 11pm. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1223068 | 2011-08-15 12:07:00 | It's most smartphones in general that are, Nokia seem to last similar times. It also varies a lot. The Galaxy S for example will get around 90 minutes with the screen on max brightness, but it's "sister" model the Nexus S will get significantly longer, IIRC around triple that? With most any smartphone these days, I recommend people charge them nightly regardless of if they *need* to or not. There's not point in completely flattening it when you could find yourself stuck in a stick situation and wish you had "that little bit extra juice", so you may as well. Apple devices seem to be the exception, pretty much across the board. For some reason the newest iPhone lasts quite well, as does the iPad and Macbook, when compared with other similar non-apple device alternatives. I'm still an Android fan though, battery life for me isn't the be-all and end-all. johcar sums it up quite well in that first post I thought :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1223069 | 2011-08-15 12:21:00 | Good spreadsheet for comparisons: docs.google.com UE&hl=en_US#gid=0 (note: I didn't make it) |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 1223070 | 2011-08-15 21:20:00 | Wow thats *cool*!! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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