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Tracfone Battery Life

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Tracfone battery life can be measured in two ways, only one of which I recommend using to decide which phone to purchase. You can look at the talk-time and the standby-time.

Talk Time and Standby Time

Talk Time refers to how long you can keep talking on the phone until your battery runs out. Naturally, this is measured in hours.

Standby Time is how long you can leave your phone turned on without using it much before you have to recharge it. Naturally this is measured in days.

Which is Better?

Talk Time is not that useful because, as a Tracfone user, you won’t spend that much time on the phone. The per-minute rate for Tracfones is somewhat higher, but you are trading that for a lower monthly fee. If you have many 3 hour conversations on your Tracfone, it’s going to start getting expensive fast. So most of the time, you phone will be on standby. So . . .

The best Tracfone battery life award goes to the handset with the longest standby time. If the phone also has a long talk time rating, that’s a plus.

Tracfone Battery Life Ratings
HandsetStandby TimeTalk time
LG 420g23 Days7 Hours
Samsung T101G19 Days4 Hours
Motorola W260G18 Days6.5 Hours
Motorola 175G18 Days6.5 Hours
Motorola C13916 Days8 Hours
Samsung T404g14.5 Days7 Hours
Samsung T105g14.5 Days7 Hours
Samsung T155g14.5 Days7 Hours
Samsung T301G14 Days4 Hours
LG600G13 Days6.5 Hours
Motorola C26112.5 Days6 Hours
Motorola V17612.5 Days6 Hours
Motorola V17012.5 Days6.6 Hours
Motorola EX124g10.5 Days3.3 Hours
LG 501C10 Days2.5 Hours
LG 231C10 Days2.5 Hours
Motorola W376g10 Days7.5 Hours
Motorola W37010 Days7.5 Hours
LG 220C10 Days2.5 Hours
LG 200C10 Days2.5 Hours
LG 500g9 Days5 Hours
Kyocera K126c9 Days3.5 Hours
LG 800g8 Days4 Hours
Samsung T245g8 Days5 Hours
LG 2258 Days3 Hours
LG 290C7.5 Days3 Hours
LG 410G7 Days4 Hours
LG 32807 Days3.5 Hours

Which Phone?

As you can see, some of the simpler phones have longer battery lives. These phones don’t do as much so they draw less power. I'm a little surprised by the long standby time of the LG 420g and wonder if it's a typo.

Still, all the phones have a standby time of at least one week which should be long enough to remember to plug it into the charger.

One last thing to remember is that these are manufacturers specifications and not necessarily real world data. They may not have measured them in quite the same conditions and some may be more conservative than others in their claims.