The "1 month of battery life" is such bullshit, and I'm surprised so many people, especially on Reddit, believe it without question. Nokia announced a phone like this a year ago, too, and the same happened.
The "2 weeks" of battery life or even 4 weeks thing is at least a decade old. It's nothing new. Old Nokias and Sony Ericsson's used to promise that all the time. The thing is that's just idle time. You're not going to keep your phone in idle that much.
This type of marketing definitely came from the Nokia guys themselves - this "old type of thinking". It reminds me of when laptop makers used to promise "8h of battery life" on their laptops 5 years ago, when their laptops only lasted 2-3h with normal use. They were also thinking idle/almost no usage-time, and being misleading about it in their marketing campaigns.
For most people here, I imagine that phone will last them 3-4 days, which is nothing to scoff at, but it's also not nearly as much as "1 month" of battery life as they imply, and you also lose so much more compared to a smartphone. Yes you get "Internet", but it will also be a pain to use it on that non-touch tiny screen.
The price is also not that special. There have been feature phones costing that much for years. The only difference is now some components have become cheap enough that they can also add some that make having Internet on it a little more usable than before.
People here are aware Firefox launched a $25 Firefox OS smartphone right?
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that too.
Here's the info about standby time you can find for iPhone6:"
"Up to 16 days (384 hours)"
I'm interested in knowing if anyone even got half of that. And if you actually start using your phone it'd go down a lot more (which you probably would want to, since you know... you bought it to have as a phone)
The "2 weeks" of battery life or even 4 weeks thing is at least a decade old. It's nothing new. Old Nokias and Sony Ericsson's used to promise that all the time. The thing is that's just idle time. You're not going to keep your phone in idle that much.
This type of marketing definitely came from the Nokia guys themselves - this "old type of thinking". It reminds me of when laptop makers used to promise "8h of battery life" on their laptops 5 years ago, when their laptops only lasted 2-3h with normal use. They were also thinking idle/almost no usage-time, and being misleading about it in their marketing campaigns.
For most people here, I imagine that phone will last them 3-4 days, which is nothing to scoff at, but it's also not nearly as much as "1 month" of battery life as they imply, and you also lose so much more compared to a smartphone. Yes you get "Internet", but it will also be a pain to use it on that non-touch tiny screen.
The price is also not that special. There have been feature phones costing that much for years. The only difference is now some components have become cheap enough that they can also add some that make having Internet on it a little more usable than before.
People here are aware Firefox launched a $25 Firefox OS smartphone right?