Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Battery Has The Power Of Hercules! Well, A Day At Least…
Possibly the second most frequently asked question people ask me about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 after “what’s the deal with those panels?” is the battery life.
At the Sony Ericsson event, despite spending enough time playing with it to give my Xperia X1 impressions, senior product manager Magnus Andersson was a little bit cagey about the details.
When put on the spot about the panel switching speed, his reply was a defensive “fast enough,” the price was never explicitly mentioned, and the battery life was constantly being compared to that of a small computer rather than other smartphones.
Well, a post on the Xperiancers blog goes some way to addressing the lattermost issue, with a sort-of in depth post about the handset’s battery life.
Apparently, a special project christened ‘Hercules’ was hatched in order to solve the juice draining issue that annoys so many mobile phone users. Magnus mentions that the new battery is 1500mAh, which is ‘large’ in common parlance.
Proof that the Xperia will not be the phone to use nuclear fission to run forever is at the end, where he admits to usually charging it overnight. So does that mean we will have to keep our panel fiddling down to a minimum to last the day? Guess that might be the trade off for having so many active screens running in tandem…
UPDATE: They have just updated the site with an exhaustive Xperia Q&A, and covered almost all the topics that we were still in the dark about! Battery life is said to be “all day,” the launch date of 30th September is cemented (although it could be a while before retailers get it on shelves), and it will come in both silver and sexy black!
Good news all round, and we’ll be sure to get you an equally exhaustive Xperia X1 review when it is released!
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