Nokia unveils £65 smartphone - with 48 days of standby time - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Scot;40629052]I understand that it's a budget phone but holy shit is this bad.[/QUOTE] if they increase the specs of it the battery life, cost and risk factor of losing/dropping it will increase, which is the whole point of owning a phone like this

[QUOTE=Bliblixe;40629603]You should buy a second battery or a portable charging kit, shit's handy.[/QUOTE] Lagdroid should actually be optimized for the hardware it runs on before the manufacturer sells it. The iPhone outlasts any other device with just a pathetic 1440mAh battery.

It will be funny and sad when Nokia revitalizes itself and finds success more from selling these types of devices than from selling Windowsphones

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40629724]Lagdroid should actually be optimized for the hardware it runs on before the manufacturer sells it. The iPhone outlasts any other device with just a pathetic 1440mAh battery.[/QUOTE] This is not google's fault, put the blame on the brands who should optimize their ROM better. I've got a Nexus 4 and it outlasted a friend's iPhone 4s.

[QUOTE=Bliblixe;40629823]This is not google's fault, put the blame on the brands who should optimize their ROM better. I've got a Nexus 4 and it outlasted a friend's iPhone 4s.[/QUOTE] Oh I am blaming the OEM's, Samsung designed their own SoC not to mention the whole bloody phone and have complete access to the source code and they still have to include a battery with a hilarious capacity to get a semi-decent runtime. I can understand a device running Windows having a shit battery life because you can only really optimize the drivers for power saving not the core OS, but a fully open OS having such a pathetic battery life is inexcusable.

48 days is around 1000 hours. Pretty good, but keep in mind that's [i]standby[/i] time. Modern smartphones are already rated at hundreds of hours of standby time. iPhone 5, for example, has 225 hours of standby time. The Galaxy S3 claims [i]790[/i] hours in standby. But know what a phone is doing in standby? Nothing.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40629938]But know what a phone is doing in standby? Nothing.[/QUOTE] That depends, Android has a yet unfixed bug in mediaserver which runs constantly in the background, eating away at your battery and repeatedly re-scanning your SD card for media files for absolutely no reason. Also it depends what apps you are running, if they are Facebook quality you can expect a wakelock scheduled for every other picosecond to spin the CPU up and make it think about something.

I need this. I'm sick of my shitey iphone but I'm stuck in a 2 year contract :(

[QUOTE=Lambda 217;40628700]the fuck is all this gimmicky shit about having a phone that works for more than one day i need my smartphone as thin as paper, screw batteries[/QUOTE] I need a paper thin phone so I can put a 1 inch thick otter box on it!

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40629938]48 days is around 1000 hours. Pretty good, but keep in mind that's [i]standby[/i] time. Modern smartphones are already rated at hundreds of hours of standby time. iPhone 5, for example, has 225 hours of standby time. The Galaxy S3 claims [i]790[/i] hours in standby. But know what a phone is doing in standby? Nothing.[/QUOTE] Well it is connected to the mobile network in order to receive texts.

[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;40630099]I need a paper thin phone so I can put a 1 inch thick otter box on it![/QUOTE] I actually got an otterbox because my new HTC One X felt so thin that I'd break it just by breathing on it too hard :v::v::v: As for battery life, doesn't bother me so bad, there's assloads of chargers all over the place in this house and all of our vehicles, that all fit the micro usb standard. Every phone I've used usually lasts me till bed time, and then I plug it in. And I use my phones quite a lot through out the day.

Maybe I should keep my eye out for one. I've never had a smartphone. I didn't even get a phone until I was 15, which was a few years back.

[QUOTE=zugu;40628917]Some custom new OS from Nokia, developed exclusively for the budget Asha series of devices, of which the 501 is the first.[/QUOTE] The Asha series has been around for a bit more than a year.

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;40628727]The other week I was thinking about when smartphones are gonna become cheap as fuck, soon something like this [img]http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/10-nokia-3110-evolve-0808-de-65751181.jpg[/img] is gonna be as much a relic as these [img]http://www.retrobrick.com/8000grey3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] uh good riddance

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40630019]That depends, Android has a yet unfixed bug in mediaserver which runs constantly in the background, eating away at your battery and repeatedly re-scanning your SD card for media files for absolutely no reason.[/QUOTE] I had that once but fixed it by formatting the SD card and then copying all of the files back. And yeah, wakelocks are an issue. Maps constantly wakes my phone up so location services can feed Google Now with the info it needs to run but I'm happy with my battery life at this point so I don't care about that. (Usually end the day with 40% left after moderate use throughout the day, I find this acceptable) But if you're anal about battery life you [i]can[/i] get any modern android smartphone or iPhone to get hundreds upon hundreds of hours in standby.

I still think it's pretty incredible that the manufacturers and carriers were able to successfully convince people to give up their phones that could last for two weeks without being charged in exchange for phones that can't survive 24 hours without being plugged into a wall.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;40632995]I still think it's pretty incredible that the manufacturers and carriers were able to successfully convince people to give up their phones that could last for two weeks without being charged in exchange for phones that can't survive 24 hours without being plugged into a wall.[/QUOTE] Seeing as most people won't use their phone for more than a day without access to a charger it's very reasonable. A pocket pc that lasts a day to me is more useful than a brick phone that can't do anything but last a week.

You know what? I want this phone. Lemme know when someone writes a Java-based GBA emulator that works on this thing's OS, and I'll get one and not look back. I miss the times when Nokia made durable phones. (I've got a Nokia now and the rubber power/volume buttons are so bad they actually got shredded from regular usage. What happened to the legendary Nokia quality?)

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;40632995]I still think it's pretty incredible that the manufacturers and carriers were able to successfully convince people to give up their phones that could last for two weeks without being charged in exchange for phones that can't survive 24 hours without being plugged into a wall.[/QUOTE] well, those phones can ostensibly do much more, so it is reasonable

[QUOTE=Mr. Kobayashi;40629295]Battery life doesn't matter as much as people make out. I just put on my charge before I go bed[/QUOTE] Batteries can run out before then. Although it's not really technically necessary to have battery life longer than 24 hours, a charger isn't always in reach.

Its simple and nice looking. I want one.

I'd want one just to swap my sim card to when I'm doing anything related to work. Much easier and cheaper to replace that than my main phone, after all.

Sick price and battery life, but with those specs these are more like Little Billy's First Smartphone. I guess if you're coming from a dumbphone then it'll still be a big jump. I'd totally buy one as a spare/phone that wouldn't be a total loss if it were stolen.

I'd be happy with a 1/10th the capacity. My phone keeps dying on me, even when I don't use it all day other than to pull it out of my pocket to check the time while I'm at work. I think it gets bumped in my pocket and I turn the screen on. I had to put a lock on the home screen recently because It kept opening apps and calling people from my pocket. :v: Still almost dead by the time I get home from work though.

[QUOTE=Psyke89;40628915]Wi-fi? That's really really cool.[/QUOTE] Well, this phone on your WiFi network would downgrade your 'n' based WiFi to 'g', so in order to have a N based connections, you'd need to have a dual-band router and only use the 5 GHz channel to your other network units.

Suppose it would be neat if I was on a tight budget, but I haven't had problems with my RAZR at all so far, really. Battery lasts all day and then some, and if not I have my car charger for when I'm out and about. It's not a huge deal to charge it every night. I've also dropped it a ton of times and it only has a little scratch on the screen so far. All phones nowadays seem to last long enough if you're not constantly running 10 apps and throwing it at a wall, in my experience.

[QUOTE=evilweazel;40634938]Suppose it would be neat if I was on a tight budget, but I haven't had problems with my RAZR at all so far, really. Battery lasts all day and then some, and if not I have my car charger for when I'm out and about. It's not a huge deal to charge it every night. I've also dropped it a ton of times and it only has a little scratch on the screen so far. All phones nowadays seem to last long enough if you're not constantly running 10 apps and throwing it at a wall, in my experience.[/QUOTE] Did you get the Razr HD? It came out the day after I bought my regular Razr. :(

The only RAZR I remember is [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Black-RAZRV3-closed.jpg[/IMG] I had the smaller version, the KRZR [IMG]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/12/moto-ms700-krzr-fire.jpg[/IMG] So much of my time was spent playing Sonic 1, Tekken 2, Sonic Jump 2, Pac-Man, Mega Man III, and Smackdown Vs Raw 2008. I had it from 2007-2009, then I got a Windows Mobile smartphone, and later moved to T-Mobile and use my LG Optimus L9 today. I still play on my KRZR every once and a while. I don't remember battery life ever being a problem on any of them.

[QUOTE=Durrsly;40635405]The only RAZR I remember is [IMG]http://www.cheap-phones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/motorola-razr-v3i-unlocked-silver.jpg[/IMG] [...][/QUOTE] Great phone, it also has some useless extras if you mess with the service menu like flashing lights in addition to ringing.

[QUOTE=Chubbles;40628761]Already is, bub. I still have my first generation Samsung Gravity and everytime I whip it out, people are like "what the fuck your phone is so old." Because literally EVERYONE has an iphone or smartphone now. It's crazy. They don't understand how i could have such an "old" phone.[/QUOTE] I still have a 2690 and most people i know still don't even have touchscreen phones. Because honestly fuck touch screen anything, i like having feedback from the keys and being able to write out messages without sticking my face in the phone. This looks nice, though, oddly.