My experience with the Freerunner (was: Any Stats on Batterylife....)

[Federico Lorenzi]

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 <steve at openmoko.com> 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: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of ian douglas
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:47 PM
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> 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
>
>
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