My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

Re:My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily ... by GoblinSlayer on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:56AM (#30020931)

How a shovelphone is better? The author mentions 5 days is great battery life. My old dumbphone with halfdead battery has 5 days life, and it's short, used to be 15 days or so.

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Re:My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily ... by kalleboo on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:51PM (#30033281)

I don't know how things are these days but when I was doing the digital nomad thing I had an old android with my home SIM in it in order to accept calls if anything important came in, and just by disabling data and wifi it would last a week on standby. Smartphones have huge batteries that they waste on keeping always-on TCP connections going. Remove those and it should last forever

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Re:My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily ... by zibzab on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:32AM (#30021685)

I consistently get 4-5 days on my "shovelphone". Well, maybe its not a shovelphone. It's a 2021 midrange phone from a respectable manufacturer.

I just happen to use it as a simple phone with most of the crap turned off. Which maybe explains the improved battery life.

Edit: right now at 10% after 4 days and 16 hours. 8 hours of screen time. Top app was Microsoft Teams (56% of my battery usage).

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