Not sure if your gonna want an extended battery though have you seen the new pics posted today? This phone is huge already can't imagine the size w/ the extended battery???? Zac Morris just called & he wants his phone back
ROTFLMFAO - thanks, dude! That just made my day! I even thanked you for making me spew iced tea all over the place....
We do have Yoda and perhaps others claiming great battery life for this phone, but IMO that doesn't affect whether an extended battery will be available.
My guess is any high volume phone will have an extended battery (perhaps not immediately at launch) for heavy-duty or mission-critical uses or for traveling where a charger might not be available. Of course, it'll always be cheaper just to bring along a spare battery bought off eBay (if you don't mind powering off to swap them).
Agreed with the boldfaced part. Different people have different uses for their phones, and with mine, my DROID quickly became my endall beall for everything, from email, to Nav, to music, to my Kindle, and beyond. I also am rooted and have OCd my device, and I'll probably at the very least see if I can break 1.6 GHz on the phone I get as soon as I can - just to have fun. With that, not to mention the numerous apps I have that run services in the background, I will definitely want either a) multiple batteries, or b) extended battery(ies).
The market will be there - and I predict that that market will be filled. If no one else, Seidio will do it.
Even though Yoda now has immense credibility, I still think that it's all going to be subjective. I use my phone for reading e-books quite a bit. Recently, on the X2 I tried out, I read an e-book from about 8am to noonish and was absolutely shocked when the battery read 20% remaining. I wasn't looking at the net, I didn't have any widgets running, I didn't make any phone calls. Yes, the screen was at full brightness (I was outside), but that should NOT make the phone run almost down to zero in only 4 hours. I was appalled, and that was one reason I took it back.
I'm really nervous about the Bionic's battery life. It has the same bright, big screen as the DX2 and is running a dual core like the DX2. And on top of that, it will have 4G LTE, which I doubt is going to be an energy sipper.
I just hope that Yoda is right about the new ingredients in Gingerbread helping out battery life. Because I don't think the battery will be a monster. And I'm for sure not going to get an extended battery. The thing already looks like a freaking camel. I'm not going to add more straw to its back.
Wait, what? Yoda got cred? Last I heard half of the posters in this thread were calling for him to put up or shut up in other threads lol....I must have missed a few days of posts there, huh?
As for GB, yeah, it's
highly aggressive with memory management - ask anyone running a CM nightly on older phones, particularly phones that cannot run a vanilla GB on them (like my DROID). Whether it helps on more powerful phones or not I cannot say - yet.
As for big, hell, I think a big(ger) device will be kewl, but only to a point - I don't want a friggin 7" tablet strapped to my belt, yanno?
Maybe this new LTE chip that Motorola came out with will fix that LTE drain...
They had to have made it for some reason, they wouldn't have bothered if the chip didn't have an advantage over Qualcomm because then they couldn't lease it to the other manufacturers, not to mention the wasted R&D.
That is what I am hoping for - but I'm worried, too - aren't the Bionic early adopters basically glorified guinea pigs?
