I am liking my Nokia 720 Windows Phone
I am not too sure if I blogged it at the time (or not) but a little while ago I upgraded from my Motorola Defy Android 2.3 smartphone—that I have had for about 3.5 years—to a Nokia 720 Windows 8 Phone. Although the Nokia 920 is the flagship model of Nokia Windows Phones I went for the lower model Nokia 720 for one main reason: in the world of smartphones it was reported to have superb battery life.
As you can see from the photograph at right, at the time I decided to key this posting I took a picture of the battery usage screen and the 720 has been on for 4 days 13 hours with an estimated 19 hours of battery life remaining. If you have Battery Saver turned on, then once you get down to about 20 percent of battery Windows 8 automatically goes into ‘miser’ mode and uses even less batter power in order to extend the battery life further.
This phone is left on 24 hours a day and I use it for my wake-up alarm.
Most days I would connect to data services four times and for two of those times I would be tethered to the Surface Pro. That would be when I eat breakfast and lunch at work and I am using the Surface Pro to check out various Web sites; possibly even to post up a blog posting during my lunch break (which I think I have only done twice so far).
I almost never use the 720 for taking or viewing video (from Youtube, etc.) and I know that both of these functions do tend to chew up battery life. Also I find the screen is ample bright enough on the second lowest setting so this also saves battery.
As for using a Windows 8 Phone it sort of bothered me for the first couple of weeks. However, as the advertising says, once you get used to the functionality and smoothness of Windows 8 Phone it would be very hard to go back to Andriod. I can’t comment about iOS (i.e., iPhones) as I have never used iOS, but I suspect it is the same outcome.
