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Whilst I was far from disappointed by the battery life on my new K700i, it wasn't quite what I'd hoped for and what I'd come to be used to from my old T610. So I thought I'd do something about it. A quick check on Ebay for "K700 battery" shows some guy in Hong Kong selling a new battery and a desktop charger for £7.99 including p&p. I ordered from someone with the Ebay name gemini_stars on a Wednesday, and the charger and the new battery arrived on Monday.
It's great! Now I've got one battery constantly in the desktop charger and the other battery in my phone. Whenever my phone battery dies, I just swap them over. I believe the new battery to be authentic - at least when I plug the charger into my phone and the new battery is in my phone is says "optimised charging" and as far as I know if a non-SE battery is inserted the word optimised is missing.
I'd recommend this to anyone who isn't happy with the K700 battery life.
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:11:28
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cool, thanks for the idea.
here is the link if anyone is interested in buying one, same seller.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBay[....]ory=42421&item=6313562431&rd=1
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:16:47
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Probably worth adding there are dozens of identical items from the same seller listed so there isn't any rush!
Cheers Twista for the greeting. I've actually been here before under the name "edskin" but I've rather bizarrely forgotten the password and I've changed email addresses so they wouldn't mail it to me! I've also browsed the forums a lot recently for some ideas as I had to choose between a K700 or a 6600 when I upgraded recently. Chose the K700 - I chose wisely too!
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:21:05
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Please don't go down that route!
It sounds too much like a stupid 3G phone!
I recommend that we continue to display our discontent with the current battery performance until a firmware update is released to retifty the problem.
It says on all of the SE promotional material that the battery figures are good why don't we ever achieve these figures!? Surely you can't sell a car that says it'll do 160MPH and then you take it on a track and it tops out at 120MPH!
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:21:10
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My battery lasts over a day with heavy, heavy use in a low network area... I am perfectly content with a battery life like this. Only reason I got a new battery and charger is because I don't like my phone then being tied to a wire for an hour or two!
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:22:46
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According to this thread
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=65571
The latest firmware improves the battery performance, suppose it is to close to the release for anybody to have fully tested this though.
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:24:43
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On 2004-08-05 14:21:05, tednol wrote:
I've also browsed the forums a lot recently for some ideas as I had to choose between a K700 or a 6600 when I upgraded recently. Chose the K700 - I chose wisely too!
indeed
regarding battery life in general. it depends how much u use the battery and how u charge them (i read a detailed thread about this, cant find it now, maybe Masseur can help with that
) so its little things like actually doing the primary charge which is recommended before playing around with it, as hard as that may seem. And the figure they give can only ever be a average reading so its never going to be dead on 100 % of the time.
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:26:04
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That a desktop charger, i take it you could use a dss-20 instead?
Id love to see that thread twister
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:26:54
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yeah, like ths one
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/2435.htm
but it will be a lot more money.
this ones £20!
however, you get a separate bettery for the on off ebay. so u have two batterys and one is fully charged at all times (theoretically)
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found that thread for ya, it was a sticky
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=5503
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Posted: 2004-08-05 14:29:59
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posted by Axxxr in the News section, the solution to battery life problem.... so cool.
http://www.esato.com/news/article.php/id=224
Twista
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Posted: 2004-08-05 16:15:38
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