standby

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In addition the battery life on this claims to be 8 hours with 300 hours of standby which is fantastic.

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  1. noun One that can always be relied on, as in an emergency.
  2. noun A favorite or frequent choice.
  3. noun One kept in readiness to serve as a substitute.
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  • Thus, if you're running a mission critical application, you could specify a hot standby which is ready to take over the traffic. —  Design daily news
  • The preview starts out with that old standby, the "I'll see you when you get back (when I really won't)" foreshadowing phone call, and then lays out the all too unnervingly real story with perhaps a touch too much exposition - I personally didn't need to know exactly what —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Talktime is up to 5 hours with a maximum of 20 days on standby, which is impressive. —  Mobile Gazette
  • When the Treo Pro is in standby, the screen displays the day and time. —  Everything Treo
  • We're proudly told how long devices will last on standby, which is like talking about the durability of tyres based on a period they spent lying gently on big blobs of cotton wool. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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