Bluetooth as a battery saver?

[EasEWryder]

Hey guys!

I just got a Motorola V710 (It said 710, so bein' a BM fan, I had to have it... ) and it's Motorala wireless headset counterpart. I talked more than normally on my cell througout the day to test my new stuff and was surprised to see that I still had a full battery gauge, even now. On my old phone, which I have only had for a little while 'cause the insurance company gave it to me, the battery would be on red by now. I never open the phone or even touch it unless I get an email notification. All my dialing is done through the headset, which I press once to make a call either by digit dial(just sayin' the phone number) or name dial(just sayin' the name. A really neat feature is that you just type in the name in your phonebook, and the gizmo recognizes it when spoken.

I have come to the conclusion that since I do not open and use the actual handset, it save a lot of power, thereby extending my usage if I use the bluetooth headset. Anyone else have any experience with this, or bluetooth in general? Thanks.

Mike

 

[Plumber576]

All I can say is that Motorolas have excellent battery life. I had a V120C and that thing would never die...I think I went 5 days without charging it and it never said low battery...and I talked on it!

I now have a Smasung a610...and even though I expect it to have less battey life than my old POS with all of its features, it is rediculous.

 

[Point44]

It has nothing to do with the bluetooth. You can't compare your old phone with this new one.

Bluetooth sucks the life out of your phone and without it your new phone will last even longer.

Well that has been my experience anyway.

 

[Ken C.]

Bluetooth is a battery sucker. You don't notice it so much because you're used to your old battery draining phone. I have a Nokia 6600 and I use the Nokia Bluetooth headset and depending on how many times I use it the battery will be down a bar before the day is through. It would go days without losing any of it's charge without the Bluetooth activated. The one thing I do like about Bluetooth is that I can transfer files from my phone to PC via a Linksys USB Bluetooth adapter ($50 @ CompUSA). I can back up all of my info and contacts and swap info between them both as well as download any pics I took.

 

[tonyccw]

Find out for sure. Don't use the Bluetooth and flip the phone open for the same duration.

I bet the power savings from not having to light the display will not equal to the amount of power when using Bluetooth.

 

[JohnG]

I have the same phone, the 710, and just like my 720c using the phone's Bluetooth drained the phone battery much more quickly. I estimate I'd get much less than one hour's talk time on Bluetooth with the standard battery.

And like the 720c I spent the extra money for the extended battery, which helped quite a bit and makes the phone usable for typically two days before it would need a charge. (My monthly usage for business typically is running up against the 1700-2000 minute mark).

The bluetooth headset I use, the Plantronics M3000 or 2500 (I sell them, FWIW), will typically give 5 hours plus of talk time and a week on standby, so it's the phone, not the headset.

Tonyccw's idea may be correct--there's a BIG color display on the 710, so even if it powers down after a few seconds it may be drawing a lot of battery so keeping it closed may be helping.

There's an excellent i710 forum at Howardsforum.com if you want some other user opinions. Verizon has crippled some of the Bluetooth features, by the way, reducing the usefulness of the phone somewhat. It's still good enough for me