Wow, that actually looks better then I expected. According to PhoneScoop, my Nokia E51 has a talk time of 4 hours or so. Although I'm not too sure if this is with UMTS or GSM, and I can't really test as there is no such thing as free calling here.
Cheers, Federico On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talk time is an interesting metric. > > It would be cool to see how "claimed" talk times correspond with measured > talk times. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ian douglas > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:47 PM > To: List for Openmoko community discussion > Subject: My experience with the Freerunner (was: Any Stats on > Batterylife....) > > I'm also doing some testing on a Freerunner for Michael and Steve, and I > have one thing to share about battery life. > > With the ASU software, with no power saving at all, I placed a phone > call to my Freerunner with a T-Mobile SIM from an AT&T phone. There was > no audio, just two phones sitting side by side. The next morning, of > course, the Freerunner was completely drained (my AT&T phone was plugged > into its charger). The phone call lasted 3 hours and 52 minutes -- just > shy of 4 full hours. > > I'm running another test right now with power saving turned on (dimming, > no locking), to see if that has any additional impact on call life. > There's also minor audio going on, as my wife is in the office/nursery > building some cabinets for the baby we're expecting in October. > > Once these, and a few other power-related tests are done, I plan to > travel around Los Angeles a little, testing the tri-band coverage in > various areas of the city. > > I've written a few notes to Michael off-list about the ASU software, but > wanted to share that of the various test calls I've made to/from land > lines, VoIP lines (with Vonage) and various cell phones on AT&T and > Verizon to the Freerunner with both AT&T and TMobile SIM cards, I've > only had a single call with no outgoing audio. The SMS software is very > basic, but complete (no MMS tested yet). > > The terminal application is usable, but the new keyboard isn't terribly > useful as there are no slash ('/') or pipe ('|') characters which are > pretty necessary for using a command line. > > I'm also ordering an 8GB SDHC micro SD card to test some 8GB storage > usaes. So far the 512MB micro SD that shipped with the phone works > great. I'll test it with a 2GB non-SDHC micro SD when this next phone > battery test is complete. > > Since others have covered the packaging and accessories, I won't bother > to echo their notes too. > > More later, > Ian Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community