Not sure about others, but you can modify the RidgeTec's "heartbeat" so that it's not pinging the cell tower as often. I've doubled my battery life this way. Plus, you can also modify what hours the camera is active to save battery life even further.
All things considered, I think cell cams have pretty good battery life when you think about everything they do. That's especially true when you consider that most cell cams do not operate under the best of conditions or with high quality signal. We're usually out in the sticks with sketchy coverage. That can burn up some batteries with a quickness.
Very good information kry226.
I will say that the stealth fusion cam app is the same way and very user friendly to make these same adjustments. I believe you can select either instant so that it sends you the pictures as it takes them, instant group which I'm not sure how frequently or how many it takes before it sends them, hourly, twice per day, or once per day to save battery life as well.
you can also adjust the megapixel from a low of 4 to 8 to 16 to 26, the delay between picture from 5 seconds up to an hour between pictures. There are also several more things you can do on the app that are nice as well and very simple to operate even for those not quite so technically advanced.
I currently have 3 of them going on the app and each is working flawlessly sending really good pictures set at only 8mp.