Nokia N9 doing “quite decently” in GSM Arena’s new battery life test
In October, GSM Arena posted an article mentioning the impressive video playback time of the Nokia N9
There was another recent article that detailed a full battery test for the N9, saying it does quite decently. Very close to Nokia’s 7h (very nice that a manufacturer produces as advertised battery life, eh 7h macbook air that’s really closer to 2h) in 3G talk time, 4H 33min in WiFi web browsing and of course that impressive 8h 40m video playback.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/nokia-n9-full-battery-test-is-ready-does-quite-decently-test/
This post details why GSM Arena have updated their battery test:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/gsmarena-feature-lab-introducing-our-new-battery-life-test/
How’d the N9 update affect Battery life guys? Any likely changes in 1.2? I guess if N9 did need an update to fix battery life, Nokia would make it so that it actually does something, not unlike some other phone.
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Best phone ever
it is really
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we all knw by heart that n9 is compulsory best and all other are just piss of our tongue.
despite the battery problems if the iphone4s, they seemed to have gave it a higher ranking. =_=;
Ugh. Yeah. I’ve been warning everyone I know not to get the iPhone 4S at the very least until the battery issues have been comprehensively solved with software updates (or alternatively the defective models have been recalled).
A little more “real world” usage reports from me, for anyone who is interested:
Having owned a Blackberry just before the N9, I was used to receiving e-mail notifications as soon as each message was delivered. I therefore set the N9 to check for e-mails constantly and to use the internet whenever needed to update the weather and my Facebook feed. To my great horror, I found my battery life decreasing exponentially. This came at an especially inopportune time as I was away on a business trip and didn’t always have the change to charge the device.
Having used the N8, I didn’t even consider the Power Saver mode (for anyone who has used the king of all cameraphones is aware of the “extent” to which the device goes to conserve power if you so choose). However, having activated it on the N9 and set my inbox to refresh at a more reasonable frequency, I’ve been able to get more than a full day’s use with frequent browsing, music, games, SMS and call usage.
web browsing time is abysmal, compared to some other phones, but is to be expected with an amoled screen. talk time looks quite good, all things considered
incidentally why i’m a fan of the Lumia 710, clear black but with tft instead of amoled, for better battery life with whites
A good phone provokes increased usage and thus drains more power. The N9 is the first one on which I use all that stuff like Twitter, one Outlook and one IMAP mail account, plus Skype and another SIP account.
I just started to have a closer look the power consumption indicated by the Battery Usage App.
With PR1.0 I had about 5-6 mA average idle consumption using 3G (only) and phone face down, e.g. the clock on the lock screen disabled by the proximity sensor, no WLAN and no data connections allowed (roaming abroad currently).
Just upgraded to PR1.1 (flasher) and this morning the average idle consumption was only 3mA!
Have to add that in this first run, the NW selection was auto, means the phone could have been on 2G, which might consume less. Will repeat this in dedicated 3G mode.
If confirmed, the PR1.1 should have reduced idle consumption significantly.
Anyway, idle consumption without any service usage is of the least concern. I did not check other scenarios on PR1.0. Maybe others have some figures with clearly defined usage, so we can find out if there are improvements.
Hopefully Nokia will fix the battery life of it’s Lumia phones.
do you mean that hopefully the lumias will have better battery life than the n9?
im actually getting very decent battery life with mine. When idle, the device laats more than.the n8 when both are connected to wifi. it lasts me a whole day with high usage (15) hours so i charge it every night.
I was somewhat surprised by mine dying on a day out yesterday but realised I’d left FourSquare open. The N9 is supposed to switch GPS off when in the background but I’m not sure it did.
I also have ‘Ionic’ showing as 9% usage. It’s an e-booke reader. I’ve not used it at all today so it’s doing something silly in the background.
Usually I can get through a whole day from 8 am to midnight at least without a recharge but it’s great to work out the needless power suckers using Battery Monitor.
i am having sort of disappointment woth n9′s batterg life. full charged battery with battery saver mode on doss not giveme stand by time more than 12 hours!! also withtalk timeof 30 mins does not last for 5
in long call. thers hige battery drain in idle state, whoch oz frustratong. i do not use facebook, twitter etc. intrestingly, battsry waz vedy good befors putting optjs micro sim in it. when i was using thos phone az navigator, camera and for browsing, battery was good. after putting som card in ot started giving battwry xraining problem. can any one figure out whats happening? doesany one had si
ilar problem? plsaze pleaze help me.
Say what?
I bought N9 outright from dick smith australia. I used my N9 for a weeks time without micro sim card in it, for photo shooting, playing videos and songs and web browsing and navigation. I was using for significant amount of time of the day and still battery was giving me good results. After a week, I received my micro sim card from optus and since the day I inserted that in my N9, it is draing my battery like a hell. Even phone been in idle, it is sucking lot of juice!. Even after full charge of battery, I get only 2.5 hours of talk time! THis reduces down to 1.5 hours at middle of the day with just 1 or 2 – 10 mins of calls in total. Battery is on battery save mode, but still no improvements! I emailed this to Nokia support, but no reply from them. I have disabled facebook and I do not use twitter. my gmail and yahoo mail ar set Always up tp date. My wall paper is dark wallpaper. I can not select 2G network, just because I do not want to miss my emials and chat messages. Honestly do not know what else to do. Could anyone please help!