Microsoft Development Conference - 300 hrs stand by...?

[Guest squall]

Midnight noticed >>this<<. Microsoft are hosting a conference aimed at increasing efficiency of Smartphone power management - UP TO 300 hours!

The GOAL of this workshop is to bring the entire portable wireless industry supply chain together with the Microsoft experts who are defining the future SmartPhone to explore the needs and available technologies to support current and future Portable Mobile Wireless requirements.

The agenda is slightly more interesting -

Future SmartPhone  

Power Management  

Devices, Architectures and Packaging to move from 100 to 300 standby hours

Most of the leading handset manufacturers have been invited - the only large company i can think of not on this list is... nokia!

Alcatel          

Arima  

Asustek Computer ("Asus")  

AudioVox  

CMC Magnetics Corp.  

Compal Communications  

First International Computer  

High Tech Computer (HTC)  

Inventec  

Kyocera Wireless  

LG Electronics  

Lite-on Technology  

Mitac International  

Motorola  

NEC  

Sagem  

Samsung  

Siemens  

Sony-Ericsson  

Wistron  

Others...  

The leading chipset manufacturers are also invited:

Chip Set Makers

Anadigics  

Analog Devices  

Intel  

Motorola  

National Semiconductor  

Texas Instruments

Many of the companys on the list are known to have released, or be working toward releasing Smartphones - this conference could have a big impact on future Smartphone releases

[Guest lutzh]

sounds good. but: specs are saying, my e200 lasts up to 100 hrs, in reality i can go for 24 hours. so does 300 hrs mean i'll get 72 hrs in reality. or if htc is involved i'll go 18 hours with promised 300...

cheers, lutz

[Guest squall]

as long as future handsets show some improvement does it really matter ?

[Guest phonesmarts]

300+ hours...sounds great, but would talk time be affected as well? i mean, with 300 hr. standby, wouldn't the talk time increase to say...10 hours? 8)

but im glad the MS wants to get all the phone companies involved to make smartphones...(another step to world domination by Billy) :evil:

* Glad N****'s not invited :twisted: :twisted:

[Guest squall]

i think the point of the conference is to look at ways of increasing battery life and efficiency - prob not to meet the 300 hours stand by!

[Guest ferryrich]

100 hours standby is exactly what it say.

100 hours of the phone being turned on and not in use.

Even if you not making calls, simply using the phone uses much more power than leaving it idle.

My original SPV lasts about 4 days without any use at all. Just checking for missed calls/seeing the time etc it'll last half that.

If I'm using it much more than that, it goes much faster.

With 300 hours of standby you could probably expect 3 days of normal use of your phone, without involving telephony.

[Guest Rob.P]

^ for that to be even close for the E200 you have leave the SD Card out