Phone recommendation please

Hi all,

I need Bluetooth / virgin network, I'd like polyphonic or MP3 ringtones and good
battery life.

I don't want or need, camera / video / texting / web / radio / MP3 player or any of
the other rubbish they are putting on phones these days.

Currently have an SE K750i.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi all,
>
> I need Bluetooth / virgin network, I'd like polyphonic or MP3 ringtones
> and good
> battery life.
>
> I don't want or need, camera / video / texting / web / radio / MP3 player
> or any of
> the other rubbish they are putting on phones these days.
>
> Currently have an SE K750i.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

Suggestions? Yeah, keep the K750! Or is the battery life getting on your
nerves?

keep the phone and possibly get a usb charger too
"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi all,
>
> I need Bluetooth / virgin network, I'd like polyphonic or MP3 ringtones
> and good
> battery life.
>
> I don't want or need, camera / video / texting / web / radio / MP3
player
> or any of
> the other rubbish they are putting on phones these days.
>
> Currently have an SE K750i.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>


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"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi all,
>
> I need Bluetooth / virgin network, I'd like polyphonic or MP3 ringtones
> and good
> battery life.
>
> I don't want or need, camera / video / texting / web / radio / MP3 player
> or any of
> the other rubbish they are putting on phones these days.
>
> Currently have an SE K750i.

For now, keep it. Turning the display brightness down to 50% helps
enormously, try it! It'll help the battery life to no end.

Mines lasts a few days with my normal (quite a lot of calls, but very
short...) usage. It's actually the first phone I haven't had to charge
everyday.

I've had many phones in my time, and all of them quoted high battery-life
with a lot of usage. Nokias were the worst - diabolical battery life, which
is actually why I switched to Sony Ericsson the last time.

Taylor wrote in message news:[email protected]...

> For now, keep it. Turning the display brightness down to 50% helps
> enormously, try it! It'll help the battery life to no end.

I'll give that a try.

> Mines lasts a few days with my normal (quite a lot of calls, but very
> short...) usage. It's actually the first phone I haven't had to charge
> everyday.
> I've had many phones in my time, and all of them quoted high battery-life
> with a lot of usage. Nokias were the worst - diabolical battery life, which
> is actually why I switched to Sony Ericsson the last time.

Funnily enough, I moved from Nokia to this. Regretted everyday since.

My wife has a Siemans A65 and if it wasn't for the lack of Bluetooth I'd have one
tomorrow. The battery life is incredible.

mark eldon wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> keep the phone and possibly get a usb charger too

The method of charging isn't the problem, it's the frequency.

Rich Wilson wrote in message news:vZ%[email protected]...
> Suggestions? Yeah, keep the K750! Or is the battery life getting on your
> nerves?

Big time. That and the "locking up" that it seems to enjoy doing.

"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Taylor wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> > For now, keep it. Turning the display brightness down to 50% helps
> > enormously, try it! It'll help the battery life to no end.
>
> I'll give that a try.
>
> > Mines lasts a few days with my normal (quite a lot of calls, but very
> > short...) usage. It's actually the first phone I haven't had to charge
> > everyday.
> > I've had many phones in my time, and all of them quoted high
battery-life
> > with a lot of usage. Nokias were the worst - diabolical battery life,
which
> > is actually why I switched to Sony Ericsson the last time.
>
> Funnily enough, I moved from Nokia to this. Regretted everyday since.
>
> My wife has a Siemans A65 and if it wasn't for the lack of Bluetooth I'd
have one
> tomorrow. The battery life is incredible.

I am on my second SE phone. The first being the SE T610 (which had a very
good battery life and bluetooth), but the K700i is much worse on the battery
life. Infact its pretty crap and I don't think this one allows you to
reduce the screen brightness to 50%, as someone suggested with the 750i. I
don't see the option to reduce the brightness anyway. Unless Ive missed it,
or its a new feature of the 750i

Jim

Jim wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> I am on my second SE phone. The first being the SE T610 (which had a very
> good battery life and bluetooth), but the K700i is much worse on the battery
> life. Infact its pretty crap and I don't think this one allows you to
> reduce the screen brightness to 50%, as someone suggested with the 750i. I
> don't see the option to reduce the brightness anyway. Unless Ive missed it,
> or its a new feature of the 750i

IIRC, go to settings / display / light and select "power save" it should have the
same effect.

I'll let you know if this 50% thing helps my battery.

So I said to them............. wrote:
> Jim wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> I am on my second SE phone. The first being the SE T610 (which had a very
>> good battery life and bluetooth), but the K700i is much worse on the battery
>> life. Infact its pretty crap and I don't think this one allows you to
>> reduce the screen brightness to 50%, as someone suggested with the 750i. I
>> don't see the option to reduce the brightness anyway. Unless Ive missed it,
>> or its a new feature of the 750i
>
> IIRC, go to settings / display / light and select "power save" it should have the
> same effect.
>
> I'll let you know if this 50% thing helps my battery.


The k700i always had a reputation as having horrible battery life - it
was a well-known thing on the newsgroups here, etc. Don't think there's
much you can do about it for that phone either.

I found it helped my battery a lot, the phone lasted a week with a lot
of usage, which totally surprised me. I guess the fact these new TFTs
that have 262,000 (or there abouts) possible colours require a lot of
energy to light-up.

You may find that upgrading your firmware could solve battery issues,
but that's perhaps a long shot, but you never know.

I've had a few different Nokia smartphones, and normal Nokia phones, and
actually got quite annoyed at the crap battery-life, I guess it depends
on what you do on it, but basically texting a few times a day, and the
battery wouldn't last long. They were still using the same model of
battery for phones that had been produced 2 years ago, that's not much
progress!

"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rich Wilson wrote in message
> news:vZ%[email protected]...
>> Suggestions? Yeah, keep the K750! Or is the battery life getting on your
>> nerves?
>
> Big time. That and the "locking up" that it seems to enjoy doing.
>

I keep hearing about this 'locking up' on the K750i, is it random or when
you do something particular? Got one over the weekend and it seems fine, one
thing I did do is upgrade the firmware using the Update Service (another
great idea from SE!), and it actually seems faster/more responsive than it
was originally!

Have you tried upgrading the firmware?

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"So I said to them............." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rich Wilson wrote in message
> news:vZ%[email protected]...
>> Suggestions? Yeah, keep the K750! Or is the battery life getting on your
>> nerves?
>
> Big time. That and the "locking up" that it seems to enjoy doing.
>

I keep hearing about this 'locking up' on the K750i, is it random or when
you do something particular? Got one over the weekend and it seems fine, one
thing I did do is upgrade the firmware using the Update Service (another
great idea from SE!), and it actually seems faster/more responsive than it
was originally!

Have you tried upgrading the firmware?

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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:35:24 GMT, Richard D
<[email protected]> wrote:

>The k700i always had a reputation as having horrible battery life - it
>was a well-known thing on the newsgroups here, etc. Don't think there's
>much you can do about it for that phone either.

The early ones had a firmware defect that greatly reduced battery
life. A firmware update fixed that, AFAIK, but newgroups never forget.

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In article <[email protected]>, So I said to
them............. <[email protected]> writes
>Taylor wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
>> For now, keep it. Turning the display brightness down to 50% helps
>> enormously, try it! It'll help the battery life to no end.
>
>I'll give that a try.
>
>> Mines lasts a few days with my normal (quite a lot of calls, but very
>> short...) usage. It's actually the first phone I haven't had to charge
>> everyday.
>> I've had many phones in my time, and all of them quoted high battery-life
>> with a lot of usage. Nokias were the worst - diabolical battery life, which
>> is actually why I switched to Sony Ericsson the last time.
>
>Funnily enough, I moved from Nokia to this. Regretted everyday since.
My last phone was an Ericsson T39m which had rubbish battery life until
the repair centre updated the software. After that it would last for a
week between charges (on very light use). I don't think it got turned
off more than 3 or 4 times a year?

With that experience I was quite happy to get a new SE to replace it 9
months ago and the K750i has been perfect except for one instance of
freezing early on which has not happened since. Battery life is at least
comparable to the T39m but it's difficult to be more precise as it now
gets used much more (thanks to "Stop the Clock"). I use a BT headset but
only in the car, on average once a week. I guess that having a BT
connection open for much of the day, every day, will shorten the battery
life. (It certainly used to hammer the T39 battery!)

>My wife has a Siemans A65 and if it wasn't for the lack of Bluetooth
>I'd have one tomorrow. The battery life is incredible.
How long does she go between charges? (And how much is it used?)

You've not said what battery life you're getting but battery life is
important to me too and the K750i has been fine. I'm sure there are
phones with longer battery life, but Id be surprised if any were much
longer (without a super-size battery). Let me know if you find one.
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The Drone wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> You've not said what battery life you're getting but battery life is
> important to me too and the K750i has been fine.

I *have* to charge it every day. Although it is never switched off it doesn't suffer
from heavy use. This is the second battery I've had for it as I was convinced the
other one must be faulty, there's no difference (