Tracfone Battery LifeSearch This Site: 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 TimeTalk 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.
Which Phone?As you can see, some of the simpler phones such as the Samsung T101g, the W260g and the W175g have longer battery lives. These phones don’t do as much so they draw less power. The phones with the shortest standby time are the LG 3280 and the LG 225.Amongst the Bluetooth camera phones, the Samsung T301g and the LG 600g come out as winners with the longest standby times. In contrast, the W376g has an impressive but unnecessary talk time of 7.5 hours, but a comparatively short standby time of 10 days. 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.
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