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Nokia Battery Monitor 2.0 Published
powersave_mode | 03 June, 2011 09:48
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The new version is almost completely rewritten in Qt 4.7 and it takes advantage of the new features in the latest Qt SDK 1.1. Implementing the UI in Qt provides much better performance and responsiveness compared to the old Web runtime (WRT) implementation where UI was essentially developed as an HTML web page. Other improvements include major rework on the algorithms to make them more reliable and consistent. NBM 2.0 has been developed for the latest Symbian^3 devices, N8, E7, C7 and C6-01. In November 2010 Nokia released an application called Nokia Battery Monitor 1.0 in Ovi Store. This application has become quite popular with over 4 million downloads so far. We have also received hundreds of end user messages to batterymonitor@nokia.com providing very valuable feedback and improvement proposals. Thank you all for that. Based on this we are have now released a major update of the application - Nokia Battery Monitor 2.0 Qt. |
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Estimates for any application NBM 2.0 is not only improving on the older version. It also provides many new features that we believe, based on the feedback, will be very useful for our customers. The first page you will see when opening the application is ESTIMATES. This is based on the old UI but now provides more usage time estimates. Several estimates can also be selected to be scrolled in the home screen widget. Estimates can be shown for any application installed on the device, even for the Battery Monitor itself. Rough estimate of the standby usage time (no active usage, only background apps and services) has been included. We also show the difference between 3G and 2G talk time in percentages based on real measurements from the device. Time elapsed from the last charging is shown, as requested in user feedback. Battery health analysis Maximum capacity of batteries will degrade over their lifetime. This means that less and less energy can be stored into it. As this happens gradually over hundreds of charging/discharging cycles, it is not easy for the end user to notice this degradation. Battery Monitor will now analyse the battery capacity during charging cycles and notifies user when a replacement is recommended.
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Application level energy monitoring
STATISTICS page in NBM 2.0 has been completely redesigned. You can now see the energy consumption history per application. Daily, weekly and all time top 8 lists of the most energy hungry applications are shown. Based on this you can easily see how battery life could be extended by avoiding usage of the energy hogs or perhaps just by changing some of their settings. Background energy consumption is also shown in the list. This includes all consumption when the device screen saver is active, for example cellular modem, Bluetooth and WLAN standby, always online email and social networking services. |
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Power saving features Finally, we have added a new page for power saving features. Currently it provides a quick and easy access to the Power Saving Mode and power critical display settings. Power saving mode can be set to activate automatically on battery level specified by the user. The page also provides some tips on how end user can save power, and improve battery life with their own actions. Get it now and contributeBattery Monitor 2.0 is now available for free download in Ovi Store. Older versions should be uninstalled before installation. Please continue to send your valuable feedback. Battery Monitor continues to be developed and we already have a lot of ideas how to proceed. Immediate next step is to provide localized versions for some of the major languages in the world. We are also looking at extending support to other operating systems. Upcoming features cannot be revealed yet, but trust us, there will be something new that you will love. |
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Keep up the good work
ashraf fawzy | 07/06/2011, 10:28
This is very useful application indeed, I use it on my Nokia E7.
And we are looking for the upcoming unrevealed updates :)
Superb
warmth | 08/06/2011, 13:45
Great guys, wasn't expecting this great update! Thanks! Keep doing well, remember to add an option to change the language when localization feature gets ready! :)
Brand new nokia
agaffar2000 | 21/06/2011, 12:20
Hello world
Congratulations on this update - great news
jasonblack | 07/06/2011, 04:07
Really glad to see all of these updates about the Nokia Battery Monitor app! And, exciting to read the end of this post, where you note: "there will be something new that you will love." - That sounds promising, indeed! :-)