Its battery life should allay concerns about MP3 listening cutting too deeply into talk time.
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Bills can be paid and mobile talk time can also be bought through the platform.
During Talk Time, before bed, my father sometimes told me stories of his own childhood adventures.
Four nights per week Talk Time was with my mother and three nights with my father.
The iPhone 4S offered 8 hours of 3G talk time, as does this iPhone 5.
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On one hand, consumers may not want to spend their talk time listening to their downloaded songs.
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Eight hours isn't the longest talk time on the market, but it's certainly better than many LTE handsets out there.
Those turned out to be just continuous talk time over 2G, so perhaps said video clip was pulled to be re-edited.
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The battery provides up to 1, 110 minutes of talk time and up to 720 hours (3G) or 580 hours (LTE) of standby time.
And Sprint claims 5.7 hours of talk time on one charge, more than the five hours that Apple claims for its 3G model.
The GALAXY Win also allows users to enjoy extended multimedia use and longer talk time with 8GB of internal storage and a 2, 000mAh battery.
Our handset came with the 650mAh version, which is rated at two hours and 45 minutes of talk time and 70 hours of standby.
The Cord Free uses a AA battery that is sufficient to give it 25 hours of talk time and three months of standby power.
That sets up the best news of all: There are proven things you can do to get the most out of joint family talk time.
So if you are a guest on a talk-radio show for one hour, you must remember that you only get about 12 minutes of talk time.
Also giving it a premium feel is the 2, 420mAh battery that, in addition to providing some decent talk time lends a satisfying heft to the handset.
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Additionally, you'll find a two-inch QVGA display, mobile banking abilities, 160 minutes of talk time (300 hours in standby), and a mysterious "biorhythm" function to boot.
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Its 800MHz processor provides horsepower to support a range of mobile applications, game-play and video-rendering, and its 1250mAh Li-ion battery powers up to five hours' talk time.
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The device contains a lithium battery pack that charges to the max in about three hours (my only complaint), giving your iPhone 4 another six hours of talk time.
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Nokia, with an eye to emerging markets where electricity is scarce and there's high Internet usage by young people, claims the battery is good for 17 hours of talk time.
You must spread those 12 minutes of talk time over four separate audiences, which means most people listening to you will only hear you for three minutes (12 divided by 4).
Most of the features and battery lives (ie, the different times using WiFi, 3G, talk time and so on) are the same or higher than earlier versions of the iPhone.
Apple addressed two of its shortcomings this week, announcing that the iPhone's battery will last significantly longer than expected--up to eight hours of talk time, three hours longer than previously anticipated.
Battery life is always a concern, but Apple noted that users would get eight hours of browsing on LTE networks, eight hours of talk time, and 10 hours of video playback time.
Results were based on patients' average talk time ranging from 120 minutes to 150 minutes a month -- some U.S. users talk that much on the phone in a single week, Davis said.
Stay tuned for some comprehensive battery tests, but our initial impression is that the only way to meet Apple's talk time numbers is by keeping use of the display to a bare minimum.
SpareOne, designed to be an ultimate safety and communication device, provides up to 15 years of battery life when stored unused (off, with plastic tab inserted) or 10 hours of talk time when in use.
Apple took advantage of the extra room to beef up the battery and the company claims 8 hours of browsing via a cellular connection, 8 hours of talk time or up to 10 hours of video playback.
We do know that it's rated for three hours of talk time and 130 hours of standby, it weighs 21 grams, offers Bluetooth 3.0 compatibility and will work with Galaxy Note devices -- you could use it as a headset with other gadgets, though there wouldn't be much appeal.
With more carriers pushing unlimited calling plans, we can't say there's necessarily a need for the friends and family features of yesteryear on this side of the Atlantic, but plenty of networks beyond the good ole US of A are a bit more stingy when it comes to tallying talk time.
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