larkim writes:

On Thursday, 18 April 2013 11:33:48 UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:
I am in the market for a new mobile phone, but I have very specific=20
requirements for maximum standby time and talk time between charges. I=20
have no need of facebook, twitter or 3G on this phone. It does need to=20
last well and work when it accepts incoming calls on lowish battery. It=
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is no use if it bumbles along and then dies sounding the ringtone!
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Can I at least raise the question of "Ludditery"? My wife thought the same=
as you do, but (despite not being a twitter or facebook user) now loves he=
r poor-battery-life smartphone.

She takes the benefits from it (integrated sat nav, emails out and about, e=
ase of use, voice activation, bluetooth capabilities, sports-tracking, game=
playing, app using etc etc) and has made adaptations to her concept of req=
uired charging - puts it on to charge overnight, puts it in a car charger w=
hen she is driving etc etc. For those small penalties, she gets the additi=
onal benefits.

It might be a bit like taking a look at Ford Model-T early last century and=
complaining that it doesn't work well when fed with grass and shod with ir=
on shoes from the black-smiths...

(You may have a perfectly good reason for looking for a more traditional mo=
bile phone, but I thought I'd raise the question at least!)

I don't expect more than one person in a hundred to agree with me, but
I find that one charge lasts several months so long as I remember to
keep the phone switched off. :-)


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