Music Player battery life

I was just wondering if the more experienced users could inform me on this issue...
I have an N78, running S60 3rd ed FP2, and my music playing life is around 20 hours. N79 and N85, which are running on the same platform (S60 3rd FP2) have claimed music life of 30 hours. N79 has exactly the same battery type and capacity as N78, and i'm guessing similar processor/hardware to the N78. I was wondering if Nokia would be able to increase the Music Player music playing time of N78 in future firmware updates, or is it actually a hardware based-issue and not FP2 leading to improved consumption improvements?
if someone with technical knowledge could shed some light on this it would be nice

i came across a review that may shed some extra light on this matter: http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-n85-en.shtml
it says that: "Since the Nokia N85 runs on similar hardware as the Nokia N78 and N79 and employs the same Feature Pack 2, it's safe to say that Nokia have done a great job fine-tuning the system's code to allow for longer battery life."
though i do agree with you el_loco that it is a different flavour of FP2, from reviews i've read it seems that N79 and N85 have a much more refined version of FP2 with some additional applications installed
we can only pray that future firmware updates will include these code tweaks, but it may very well be unlikely that an increase in music playback time will occur
Message Edited by adrianhughes on 26-Dec-2008 05:33 AM

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