Since installing and using 3's MobileMail on Saturday, I find I get 8 hours of battery life from my E61.

Is this just me or typical?

What is the usual expected battey life?

An E61, full charged and used typically, should last 48 to 60 hours, I'd say. Sounds like Mobile Mail is hammering your processor. Why not use the built-in Messaging?

Steve

It depends how much you're using it, what you're using it for and if you're leaving the wi-fi switched on.

In normal phone mode (without wi-fi permanently on) mine lasts many days.

Prior to installing Mobile Mail and leaving WiFi (for downloading my email) and Bluetooth (for headset and iSync to Mac) always on, I was achieving 3 days of use which was fine.

It's just Mobile Mail which is sucking my battery juice away :-(

Unless I plug it in at night now it's flat by morning. :-(

I spoke with 3 this morning and they confirm that it is a battery drainer but there's no way to reduce the polling to Seven's servers to stop it. :-(

Wirelessly posted (Nokia E61: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413)

I am checking my POP3 accounts every 10 minutes, use my E61 quite heavily, browsing and playing games (Meteor) at the moment, yet I get more than a full day and evening of use.

Regards, Michael

I wonder how 3/Seven managed to get such a rogue application Symbian Signed?? Doesn't such behaviour make a mockery of the signing process?

Steve

I don't know about the 'Seven' only version but '3' seem to have a hobbled service too. I can't change the sent/deleted folders on their webpage for email therefore have no record on my email server of sent email. I cannot set a signature for email (so noone knows the message has been sent from my phone and I am not in the office/home) and cannot set multiple accounts - all of which seem available on the basic package from 'Seven'.

The client details don't seem to have anything for Seven either. I think someone needs a slap for this program.

I think I will move to Consilent or Seven's own package to see if that's better on battery life and functionality.