I used to be a diehard Motorola junkie. I would only buy their flip phones. Then came the very first Blackberry (you know, the HUGE one... well, now that I have a DX, it doesn't seem so huge anymore
), I got it because at the time I had cancer and I was spending a LOT of time at the hospital. So I got it to email all my friends and family since I didn't have a laptop or anything. Well, that damn phone would go 2 or 3 days easily on one charge while using it regularly. One time I went on a 5 day trip to Tennessee with my riding buddies and I brought along the wrong charger... so I used it fairly lightly and turned it off every night. The battery didn't die until I was on my way home... I was floored that it lasted the entire 5 days without a charge at all.
Then came along the Motorola Q. I had gotten very fond of the Blackberry, but it didn't have a camera, nor did it play MP3's, and like I said before, I really dug Motorola's. So I swapped out for the Q... which proceeded to drive me completely CRAZY!!!! The job I worked at back then often required me to work 12 hour shifts, and my phone was constantly dying on me before lunch! So I bought a second battery. The two stock batteries occasionally lasted my regular 8 hour shift. But they still didn't get me through a 12 hour shift. Then finally they came out with an extended battery. It might have lasted an hour longer than the original battery, but was twice as thick. So my routine back then consited of having to go home, charge both stock batteries and the extended battery (luckily Motorola had a charging station that allowed you to charge your phone, and an extra battery at the same time), and taking all three to work (and both doors since the stock battery easily came loose with the extended battery door in place... something that doesn't seem very likely with my Droid X, it's battery seems to fit very securely) just to get me through a 12 hour shift.
So the extremely poor battery life, coupled with the fact that the Q started sporadically erasing my notes for no reason at all.... notes that were very important, and that I'd spent a lot of time creating... led be to loath all things Motorola. Yes, the Q (I would just say 'my' Q, but I ended up going through 3 of them trying to get one that wasn't full of bugs... so I developed a confidence that the Q was not a very well made phone) was THAT bad, it turned me (temporarily) completely against my previous favorite phone manufacturer.
So I walked... no, RAN back to Blackberry as they had come out with a few offerings with camera's and what not, finally. I picked up the Curve and was back in battery life heaven. It didn't last 3 days on a single charge like my original Blackberry did, but I went all day long without ever breaking a sweat, and there was the occasion where I was somewhere and couldn't charge it over night, and it would usually last me most of the next day before finally shutting down. Is the Curve anything like my DX? Oh hell no, not even close. But it easily did everything the Q did and more... while conserving the battery like power was going out of style. So, over the course of those few years, going between those two brands, yes, I developed a huge respect for Blackberry's ability to conserve battery life as compared to the Motorola phones I owned. I had actually become a genuine 'Crackberry' head after owning my Curve for two years. I never thought I would ever leave Blackberry. Then, my fiancee and I went to Italy and we brought along her friends Storm since it was a world phone... after a few short days trying to use that phone I got so God Damned frusterated I almost threw it into the Adriatic ocean. I swore I would NEVER own a phone without a physical keyboard!!!! I absolutely hated the Storm, there was nothing about that phone that I liked. So I was waiting patiently for Blackberry to come out with their next 'IT' phone (the Curve 2 didn't strike me as a step forward, so I figured they had to have SOMETHING big coming around the corner). Then last month my fiancee's contract was up and she was due to get a new phone. Verizon was offering their 'buy one Droid, get the 2nd free' promotion. So she asked me if I wanted to try a Droid? I honestly didn't, like I said I had evolved into a Blackberry user through and through. But, I figured if they were going to just GIVE me this thing, well why not give it a spin right? At least it would give me something to experiment with until Blackberry finally did come out with their next leap forward, right?
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Now, if they would just buy out RIM and steal all their battery saving technologies!!!
roid X Extended Battery and Cover | Droid X Extended Battery
