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Battery life, battery life, battery life… you’d have to see us shaking our heads in a dejected fashion as we wrote that to understand the full pain we feel every time someone mentions battery life to us. We’ve been hurt by more batteries over the years than we have women (which might not surprise many of you), but things just haven’t been getting any better. In fact, in many cases they’ve actually got worse. We can remember the old Nokia 3310 lasting for what seemed like weeks, most probably because it’s monochrome display had only 84×48 pixels. Bless. And that little thing sold 126 million pieces units… But little did those manufacturers learn because soon they were slapping on huge screens, massive connectivity thingies, media players, rocket boosters and whatever else they could think of in some kind of Cold War style race for supremacy, even if that race was at the expense of battery life (okay, maybe that’s not quite similar to the expense of life threatened by the Cold War, but you get the point). For years now, it seems, battery lives have been getting shorter. And with the most recent kick in the teeth of 18 month contracts for phones that have only been built to last for a year, it’s gotten even worse.

Well, luckily, things might be about to change. Or they will do, that is, if the Nokia E52 is anything to go by, because with its 25-day standby claims, it sounds like the E52 is the kind of phone for us. Fair enough, claims are claims and facts are often quite some way from these, but even if that 25-day in claim-land = 20 days in reality, that’s still some way better than just about anything else being released these days. So we say, bring back the old days! Bring back phones that last for weeks upon weeks! Bring back monochrome LCD screens!

Oh, and if you’ve not been quite as emotionally affected by battery life, you might also want to read about all the other things the pretty nifty Nokia E52 does in this Nokia E52 review. And why not have a look at the video below too.