[Reason077]

Standby times were indeed great in those days because those phones weren’t doing very much when they were idle. (Weeks may be an exaggeration, though!)

You might also be misremembering talk times, unless you had a phone with an exceptionally large battery.

A typical device like the Nokia 3210 had 3-4 hours talk time, which is far less than modern smartphones.

[the_biot]

Last Nokia I had, I only charged it about every two weeks. I used to go on business trips and not even bother to bring the charger.