Windows Phone Thoughts: Mobile-Review Reviews the Asus A636 and its Insane Battery Life

"The Li-Ion battery is capacious of 1300 mAh. That's not the highest figure among the PDA, it's higher than average. The manufacturer claimed 44 hours of offline work. We haven't believed in this statement, until we checked it. In the read mode (auto scrolling in Haali Reader, the lowest backlight level and the lowest clock rate) the A636 lasted for 35 hours 50 minutes on a single charge. The MP3 playback from the memory card with the screen of drained the device completely out within 23 hours 24 minutes. Under the maximum load Asus A636 worked for 4 hours 10 minutes. In GPS navigation mode with 50% backlight level the device was good for 7 hours 10 minutes. Bravo Asus! Hats off! The PDA outpaced all previous records. And don't forget that the A636 is equipped with Intel XScale processor and not the efficient TI, and the battery capacity is far from 3600 mAh. We suppose, this record will be kept for a long time, this model should become the standard to access offline work. Other manufacturers should think about power consumption optimization for Intel XScale processor."



Darius mentioned last week that the A636 -- their newest Pocket PC, with GPS -- was supposed to ship this week, and that Asus has rated the device as having 44 hours of battery life. 8O A number of you were rightfully skeptical on that note. Well, looks like the specification is not completely off. Mobile-Review gives the device one of its usual thorough run-throughs, and was blown away by the battery life. So... what form of magic did Asus sprinkle on the device to accomplish these amazing results?