Philips Xenium: Simply Wow
It’s all I can say for this less than 150USD mobile phone. It’s looks is pretty ok, it’s specs are pretty so-so, but the battery life is the premium here.
The best feature I found was the auto turn-on and turn-off at a desired time you set, not that it needs this feature to save power, it is just an added plus. The power bar is the common 5 bar type, which I wish would have been better with an actual figure and percentage numbers. That 5 bars signify 12 days of standby. Now divide 12 by 5 and that is roughly how you figure out how much time you have left.
Philips Xenium 9@9
It has a VGA camera which takes average shots, although it doesn’t look pretty nice on the Xenium’s colored screen since the screen is an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED). Transfer the pictures on a computer and it looks pretty fine for modest use.
One of the actual stories connected to the Philips Xenium 9@9 is when a bunch of backpakers in China, in the Jinggang mountains last October 2001 were lost for 80 hours. One of them had a Xenium phone (I guess the older models), twenty hours later they were rescued thanks to an SMS exchange of the lost group with the rescue team.
Specifications:
SCREEN VGA, CMOS sensor
DATA Triband, GPRS, Bluetooth, micro USB (data and charging), WAP
MEMORY 2MB user memory with microSD slot
BATTERY Li-Ion 1790 mAh with up to 1,440 standby time and 17 hours talk time
DISPLAY 128×160-pixel, 65K-color, 1.8-inch TFT screen
SIZE 42×18.7×104.3mm, 108g
iPhone 3G Battery Tips
The New iPhone 3G
Just read in Yahoo Tech News some tips in making the iPhone less of a battery power hog. I decided to try it out on a test unit I luckily had with me today. My Conditions is that I turn back everything to default before trying the next tip and never actually using it after full charge.
Turn off push e-mail
(Tip Rank: 10 out of 10)
Push e-mail is one of the new features of the latest iPhone firmware and one of the worst battery consuming application as well. Turning it off really does save you power on the iPhone, not to mention it’s becoming one of the best Tips on iPhone 3G Care. Switch from push to “fetch” e-mail on your settings and choose 30minutes fetching. Try it your self and thank Yahoo for your new lease on battery life…
Dim the screen (Tip Rank: 6 out of 10)
Yeah, without testing I can surely attest to this, because all device which has a self-powered screen ot any screen with illumination or back light consumes power, so it will save you power if you dim them, you can even do this on your notebook computers and it will save you some juice too. Look under Settings then Brightness and set it to approximately half and Read more…
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