Nokia 6131 Review

Of course I am reading your posts Charlyee and, my little joke notwithstanding, your precision has crossed over the boundary into obsessive compulsion, this time.


SW

 

That is indeed interesting and useful. If you say 74SMS = 74 minutes, that must come from the screen consumption plus the RF to send the message. So, therefore the screen consumes quite a bit of power, since SMS consumes less power than voice.

But given that info, and unless you 'cooked the books',it agrees with the back of the envelope calcuation I did with Maverick22's data; maverick22 took the battery down to 1/3, and I calcuated that a full depletion would be 2.3 hours, and you have 74 + 74 or 2.5 hours for a dead battery.

Wow, pretty close. How can I do it? LOL

Of course included in this is all the fooling around with menus and the like. Ok, my memory is a little gone on one point: it's been a while since I've drained my battery. Does the icon go down by thirds or quarters? In any case its still pretty close.

Perhaps Nokia's specs of 'up to 3.4 hours' is not too dishonest, because I can only assume they are only looking a rf transmission times and when you have 'full bars' and the phone scales back the RF power output. In that case, this battery /phone combo is not that bad...we're just trying to do so many things with it at once.

An interesting back calcuation would be to look at your cingular bill for a few months, add up the minutes used (rollover, n/w and regular) and divide by the number of days in the month to get at your average daily usage in hours. One way to figure what kind of phone you need.

Fortunately for me I almost never spend 2 hours on the phone talking...not even a landline...so I can take advantage of the other features pretty freely. If I did get to that point, I'd probably buy a second battery rather than give up the other features, like the screen. Nokia does sell a battery only charger for this phone series.

vf

 

Also when you count texting, dont forget button depression and processor time (T9 especially.)

 

Oh, come on, it takes a bit more processor time, but you finish your message faster, so it could be that using T9 actually takes less energy. I'd bet that you could devise an experiment and data analysis protocol to test this.

BTW, Charlyee, love your new avatar. Is the witch flying past a cell tower?



SW

 

Certainly looks that way, guess Charlyee is our cellular witch

Actually T9 text prediction continuously access the ROM/RAM to create the words, the cycles would indeed take more battery time.

 

Yes, I top it off every morning. I'm careful not to overcharge it however. The batteries today prefer to be charged and can do so without the old memory effects, as long as you give it the few full cycles when new. Every now and then, I do a full cycle also.

It's just the way I am, but after 9/11 here, I feel you never know when you had wished for a full battery charge.

Nice Avatar too. I think the little experiments and input between you and maverick22 have given more solid information on battery life then any previous posts. Saying it's s??ks, or great isn't too useful to others.

P.S. When the mini display say 'Battery Full' I usually disconnect the charger.

 

Which Moto and why is it allowed where the 6131 is not?





SW

 

Viewfly, I'm glad you told me about you charging your phone in the morning. That's working out great for me!

 

OK, but now I need to know what a Class I, Div I area is. Is that anything like Area 51?

It's just a matter of time...



SW

 

I would assume it has to do with radio interferance in high sensitive areas, such as communications hubs, around explosive dumps, etc.

 

OK, thanks, that's interesting.

Details, details. It's the latter, actually. I don't give up on missions easily and I still really like the CU500 for a lot of reasons. We'll see which becomes my pirmary phone and which my secondary .

SW

 

Very good. Before the 6131, I would do something similiar with my 6230. I had a Nokia car holder for that phone which the Nokia car charger would plug into. Nokia's car charger is a very rapid charger ( 30 minutes or so) and it included electronics to shut off at full charge (a feature the phones do not have or their chargers). So during my drive in the morning, the phone would get topped off that way and I didn't have to worry about over charging.

Unfortunately, the 6131 doesn't have the same type of connectors or car holder, so I switched to charging in the morning at home to top the battery off that way.

Glad it works for you...seems a smarter way to do battery management instead of charging at night.

Best,

 

Stump the Chumps hey! Well I don't know, my are pretty close, only 1 off.

But when I press details, it says

59/60 Details says 59 messages 60 parts. So maybe it means that some of your messages were long and came in 2 or more parts?

I know if i request a bill message from Cing, it can come in two parts.

What do you think?

 

It was just a guess on my part...I never really looked at the message log before.
I noticed that the 6131 allows 1000 characters for a single SMS.

Well yesterday I had my first drop with the phone It hit a metal filing cabinet on the way to the floor. I got a tiny white mark, ok scratch, on the glossy black bezel around the external display, about 5 o'clock position.

It really is tiny, and looks like a speck of dust. Really nothing, but , boy , my eye keeps going towards it.

So I had enough. With a fine point 'sharpie' permanent black marker, I carefully touched the scratch a few times, and viola, no more white mark.

At least it is invisible unless you get the light just so and look hard. I'm a happy camper again

P.S. Charlyee I like your seasonal avatar. I would do the same, but I'm afraid someone might steal my avatar while it's gone.

 

Odd, mine starts at 1000,even with the address already in. at 840, it begins page 2 (didn't the original sms limit at 160?), so that makes sense. I guess that means that if I texted you Charlyee, I would always get the last word in :wink:

I have to admit that sms'ing is much easier with this phone. Not sure if it is the keys or the flip design.

I like the colorful display icons on the external screen when you miss a call and the vm icon shows up: the ones that show up whe the digital clock reappears.

P.S. my daughter, who hates nokia's (the apple does fall far from the tree sometimes) thinks that with this phone, nokia, 'made some good progess', and approves.:biggrin:

 

You must have GREAT eyes, viewfly. Those icons on the external display are so tiny. Wait, are you referring to the icons when the phone has been inactive for awhile & the screen is gray? If so, those icons are nearly impossible for me to see.

I wish Nokia would have made those icons bigger (they're incredibly small), and the numbers on the digital clock a little bolder/bigger or something, something making it easier to see. It's weird, I can see the info. on the external gray screen BETTER in direct sunlight. The info. is pretty tough to see in lower lighting situations. My past phones have been the opposite (very hard to see in direct sunlight).

Still really enjoying the phone! I'm getting more used to the menus, and I guess after I've had a phone for awhile, I use it strictly as a phone. When I first get a phone, I'm all going through the menus to see what it can do. Did that make sense? I guess a little of the excitement has gone & I'm just mainly making calls on it.

A funny thing happened the other day. I was at work, and I felt something in my pants. I was like "what is that?" My pockets started kind of stretching out. I pulled my phone out (after a lil' struggle), and much to my surprise, the phone was halfway open. I guess the auto-flip open button had activated while it was in my jeans pocket! It was a good laugh for the day.