The Samsung Q1 has obviously been doing the rounds this week in Europe. A number of UK and Euopean websites have been running ‘first impressions’ reviews. However, Xonio.com a German website, ran some brief tests and had a short review available back in early April. Importantly, they ran some battery-life tests. Here are the results:
Working with text (Word) – 3.01 hours.
Divx playing – 2 hours.
The Samsung uses the Celeron processor (the least efficient of the mobile processors available in current Origami UMPC’s) and these figures are way below my prediction for the VIA-based devices (4 hours / 2.5 hours respectively) and makes me wonder if I’ve over-estimated the battery life of the VIA-based UMPC devices. Especially as the Japanese itmedia only got 2 hours out of their VIA-based UMPC battery when playing a movie.
There are some more Eo (via-based) reviews lined up for next week on various UMPC portals so i’m hoping we’ll see some battery life tests to determine once and for all if the VIA based Origami UMPC’s are really more power efficient than the Celeron-based ones.
Other info from the Xonio web site are:
- PCMark04 result – 1.690
- Screen brightness – 187 cd/m
- Screen – wide viewing angle. 2 people can watch a film in a train or plane.
Steve / Chippy.
April 29th, 2006 at 2:08 am
these guys claim that they got more than 3 hours from the Samsung Q1 playing divx. (1.40 hours playing a DVD via USB external drive).
link
April 29th, 2006 at 2:09 am
BTW, the test in Japanese site was streaming media via WiFi AFAIU. That’s sucks more power than just playing a Dvix.
April 29th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Sorry Ctitanic, I dont see where these guys actually said they got more than 3 hours playing a DivX.
Where is the reference?
Wifi, doesn’t actually take much power so i’d expect the Wifi and external DVD tests to be similar.
Regards
Steve.
April 29th, 2006 at 9:10 am
In another part of the review,
they mention this:
“We tested the Q1 out by watching a ninety minute film (with wireless and other non-essential tools turned off) and it used 70 per cent of the battery.”
That puts DivX battery life at 2hours which is about what we were expecting.
Regards
Steve
November 21st, 2006 at 10:03 am
I wonder, would there be any major difference in power consumption, when using black desktop color and black theme (zune), compared to say, normal theme and light backround?
November 21st, 2006 at 10:11 am
Hi valto.
Im afraid not. What is on the screen has a negligable effect on powrr consumtion.
Steve