Battery saving tips

Pt. 10 of 10 | 5:16 |

Using your Windows Phone 7

Friday December 24, 2010

In this last part of our series we'll show you some

power saving strategies

for your

Windows Phone 7 device

. There are a number of ways you can

extend battery life

and we'll show you a few of them, including

turning off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth

, adjusting your brightness settings or changing your email retrieval settings.

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Show Notes

- There are a number of ways that you can decrease your phone's battery usage, most of which can be accessed through the Settings menu.

- You can change your theme to dark to save your battery.

- Under cellular you can disable your data connection which will save power.

- You can turn off Wi-Fi under Wi-Fi, which is handy if you're not in range of a trustworthy network.

- Under Bluetooth you can turn off Bluetooth connections.

- You can turn down the brightness or set it to automatically adjust based on the brightness setting.

- Email & accounts gives you the option of turning off push email or setting your phone to check for email less frequently.

- Check under applications from time to time to see what applications you can change the settings for.

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