Philips have announced the most ridiculous
sounding selling point for their new Xenium
W8510 ever: a 35 day standby battery. Now,
don't get me wrong, this is pretty exciting
news, but only because it means we should
soon see every other manufacturer aspiring
to produce better battery life for the devices
we actually want to use.
So why put so much effort into producing
such an awesome battery when your phones
still aren't up to snuff? Well, that's kind of
what Philips does – puts great battery life
into sub-par smartphones. I doubt the
Xenium W8510 will be any different,
although the specs list is decent enough:
4.7'' display, 1.2 GHz MediaTek quad-core
processor and 1 GB RAM.
The battery itself is only a 3,300 mAh, so
it's not the breakthrough in battery
technology the Qualcomm chief was talking
about last week. And if you're actually
talking – you know, using it for what phones
are for and not just letting it sit there – then
you'll only get 18 hours talk time. But still,
18 hours talk time or 14 hours of web
browsing is still pretty impressive. More
than enough to go a couple days without a
charge.
www.androidpit.com/is-35-days-enough-standby