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Battery life is top priority to 38% of users
Published by David Gilson at 11:20 UTC, August 19th 2010
Nokia Conversations recently ran a poll asking what's more important than battery life? Yesterday, they published their results with the largest segment of users, 38%, voting for the 'Nothing' option. The runner-up choice was Connectivity, with 25% of the vote. Multimedia capabilities took third place with 17% of the vote. Read on for more commentary.
Poll results taken from Nokia Conversations
While the largest segment of users here prioritised battery life above everything else, it was only 38% of the vote. Conversely, 62% of users didn't rate battery life as the most important aspect of their device. It's a curious set of results; the least popular aspect here is device size. Obviously, the lower the volume, the less energy can be physically stored. However, Connectivity (25%), Multimedia (17%), and Screen size (13%); are all energy draining aspects.
While phones are mobile devices, this does hint to how that most people are using these devices indoors around urban areas where a charging point is never far away. That said, there is still room for the likes of the E71/72 with Nokia's 'hero' BP-4L driving a relatively small screen which will run in the field for days on end before needing a recharge.
You can read Nokia Conversation's analysis of the results here.
News Discussion
Wish the battery technologies evolve for us to be able to have compact batteries that have (atleast) 2-3 times the current batteries' power.
Performance of the RF capability.
Victory of design over function or just Nokia blindly following Apple's mistakes?
Trouble is the poll only offered the options you editors chose. It didn’t allow a section for users to suggest their own alternatives.
Given these poll results it only goes to support the view that it should be possible to insert a spare battery – this can double the useful life of the phone between charges (or triple etc depending on how many spares one wants to carry). The N8 is clearly an issue here. I am not against the reasons why Nokia have made the N8 battery non replaceable – I see it’s a tricky compromise between case size, protecting the electronics and reducing return rates, but I sincerely hope that some enterprising third party makes a replacement end piece for the N8 that has push in clips in place of screws so that swift battery replacement is possible.
There is currently a real issue with the N8 if one is out all day away from a power source and doing videoing, pictures, GPS, sports tracking, browsing, you name it, and the battery runs out.
I guess battery technology needs to catch up.
I have an e71 for work, it lasts 4 days, and it is 18months old, now. It is one of the best phones for work ever fashioned.
My n900 on the other hand needs a charge everyday, but I abuse it as a computer, playing videos, using internet and calling without worrying about battery.
For my n900 battery life is not an issue, but my e71 has saved me sometimes, and for it battery life is as important as it gets. Not mentioning the fact it is indestructible.
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