Anyone has picked up the Glisten?

[CeluGeek]

Can you lock it to 2G-only to save battery?

[Whiterabbitt]

So, I think this may not be necessary, hear me out.

I definitely did this with my last phone which was a dumb phone. It really did help things a bit.

But now? The game has changed a little bit. We have smartphones (I assume the glisten is a smartphone) that have GPS antennas, wifi antennas, bluetooth antennas, enough GSM antennas to operate across the planet. Huge screens with backlights capable of blinding circus animals and flashes that are designed to be turned on and held on for use as flashlights.

In short, they are being built and shipped with ever larger batteries, just to last the day! All I have to do is keep my wifi antenna off, don't use GPS, and set the idle screen to turn off the backlight in 5 seconds and my smartphone lasts for DAYS and DAYS without needing to charge.

I wanted a phone that could last at least two full days without needing to charge. If I shut off the bluetooth antenna, I can last about a week. Simply amazing.

So really, especially if you are considering a smartphone, 3G transmission is a drop in the bucket. There are other chips in there that will suck way more juice that you can leave off most of the time and really increase your talktime.

[philpeeps]

but in a pinch when you drop to 25% and won't be near a charger for several hours, it is a nice option to have to milk all the life you can out of the battery...

[CeluGeek]

Yes, but there are other reasons to disable 3G. If you live on a fringe area, the constant bounce between 3G and EDGE make data sessions unusable. (Too many connection dropouts!) A steady EDGE connection after disabling 3G results in usable data sessions in these cases.

So the question still stands. Can you disable 3G on the Glisten? Most AT&T-branded phones have this option completely disabled, but there are a few like the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold where you can set the phone to Automatic (default) or EDGE-only, though setting the phone to 3G-only is still crippled.

I want to know where the iPAQ Glisten stands in regards to this.