Early Battery Life Reports

[jreed2560]

I want to be in control of every aspect of my phone at all times. Most everyone I've talked to on here feel the same way. I don't think its a matter of micromanagement as much as taking your time on initial set up and tweaking things to give you the best possible experience.

 

[AJ_EVO]

Speak for yourself, I get 24+hours of battery easy. Thats with about 6+ hours of heavy use awake time and the rest sleep time. Its not a battery hog unless you want it to be and run 4g,3g, wifi, gps and bluetooth with everything syncing all the time. I only run things when i need them and sync the things i want. I bet a smart user could push out 30+hrs on the X easy.

It's an issue for people like my wife. She doesn't want to be bothered with turning off antennas, using app killers, etc. By initial reports, Droid X battery life seems very good "out of the box" without turning off the phone's features.

 

[jroc]

"Out the box " is the key phrase. A reviewer on another forum already tested the talk time on the X, and it actually passed the advertised specs by 1 hour 30 min. He hasent done general use battery life yet.

For a reference:

Droid has advertised talk time of 6 hrs 25 min, he had 7 hours 30 min

Inc has advertised talk time of 5 hrs 13 min, he had 5 hrs 30 min

X has advertised talk time of 8 hrs, he got 9 hrs 30 min

EVO has advertised talk time of 6 hrs. PC Mag did a review and got 7 hrs 24 min

 

[AJ_EVO]

"Out the box " is the key phrase. A reviewer on another forum already tested the talk time on the X, and it actually passed the advertised specs by 1 hour 30 min. He hasent done general use battery life yet.

9.5 hours talk time?

 

[jroc]

LOL, yea. He said he tested it by calling a number and leaving it alone until the battery died.


The thing to look at is all these phones probably shipped with different sized batteries:

EVO - 1500 battery
Droid - 1400 battery
Inc - 1300 battery
X - 1540 battery

And the Droid is the only on under 1Ghz.

 

[swazedahustla]

I'm just speaking for all of those people in the EVO forum complaining about battery life. That's all. If it really wasn't an issue, as it was also with the HTC Incredible, then I wouldn't even mention it.

Perhaps you should read the forums a little closer. If you did you would see that for every 1 person talking about bad battery life, there are 6-10 people who post, telling that person they are doing something wrong because they can get 24hrs on no charge. I can personally assure you the same thing will happen with the X, as it does with EVERY phone that comes out.

 

[Vihzel]

Perhaps you should read the forums a little closer. If you did you would see that for every 1 person talking about bad battery life, there are 6-10 people who post, telling that person they are doing something wrong because they can get 24hrs on no charge. I can personally assure you the same thing will happen with the X, as it does with EVERY phone that comes out.

There is a guarantee that the X has a much better battery life than the EVO. Can't say many reviews praised the battery life on the EVO, but for the Droid X... it's a very different story. The talk time and standby time for the Droid X is higher, based on HTC's and Motorola's estimates.

I'm not saying that the X will NOT have battery problems, but I'm sure it'll be much less. I have an Incredible right now that has better battery life estimate from HTC than the EVO and I was having trouble getting 24 hours comfortably on my phone. When I got the extended battery, it was much better.

 

[jroc]

Even taking the official specs for the phones, The X and EVO ship with damn near the exact same size battery, but the EVO's officialy rated talk time is 2 hours less than the X.

Of course looking at the lil reference point I put up, reviews are finding the official talk times to be lower than actual use. Each reviewed talk time was much higher, except the Inc....

The wild thing is, The X has a 1Ghz chip, so does the EVO. They both bigger phones, some would say the X is even bigger. (I say its longer...) Only difference thats worth noting: X has a 45nm chip vs. the 65nm one in the EVO.

And that 65nm chip is the same exact one in the Inc.....which doesnt make any sense to me...

 

[swazedahustla]

There is a guarantee that the X has a much better battery life than the EVO. Can't say many reviews praised the battery life on the EVO, but for the Droid X... it's a very different story. The talk time and standby time for the Droid X is higher, based on HTC's and Motorola's estimates.

I'm not saying that the X will NOT have battery problems, but I'm sure it'll be much less. I have an Incredible right now that has better battery life estimate from HTC than the EVO and I was having trouble getting 24 hours comfortably on my phone. When I got the extended battery, it was much better.

I can't speak on estimates and all that fictional stuff. I go by my real world experiances, and that is the only fact that I know. I personally get 24 hours, so its not an issue to me. Those people who come up with estimates don't use their phone how I do, so its apples to oranges IMO.

 

[Vihzel]

I can't speak on estimates and all that fictional stuff. I go by my real world experiances, and that is the only fact that I know. I personally get 24 hours, so its not an issue to me. Those people who come up with estimates don't use their phone how I do, so its apples to oranges IMO.

I'm glad that you get great battery life. Just best wishes to the others who aren't.

 

[swazedahustla]

I'm glad that you get great battery life. Just best wishes to the others who aren't.

Pretty much, but what I have learned, people with no tech knowledge who play 3D games for 4-5 hours, while streaming music tend to be the ones complaining about battery life. They fail to understand that no matter what phone they buy, that type of use is going to drain battery, but again I can't waste time trying to educate people about common sense type of things.

 

[jroc]

The flip side to that tho:

What u do in 24 hours may be lite compared to those who dont get 24 hrs battery life. Their 24 hours may actually be general use compared to yours. Not saying this is your use, but stand by time all day, or half the day is one thing, general use is another.

 

[lexluthor]

I want to be in control of every aspect of my phone at all times. Most everyone I've talked to on here feel the same way. I don't think its a matter of micromanagement as much as taking your time on initial set up and tweaking things to give you the best possible experience.

Sure, it's great to be in control. Just, for many people, it's not worth having to remember to turn wifi on at home, turn off when leave, turn off background data when you won't use it for a while, turn it back on when you do, turn on gps only when needed, etc.

Personally, I'll give up a percentage of my battery to make things easier (I don't turn off mobile network or gps and use y5 to turn wifi on and off automatically). On the other hand, for things I might use very rarely (bluetooth), I do turn it on and off.

 

[jroc]

"Out the box " is the key phrase. A reviewer on another forum already tested the talk time on the X, and it actually passed the advertised specs by 1 hour 30 min. He hasent done general use battery life yet.

For a reference:

Droid has advertised talk time of 6 hrs 25 min, he had 7 hours 30 min

Inc has advertised talk time of 5 hrs 13 min, he had 5 hrs 30 min

X has advertised talk time of 8 hrs, he got 9 hrs 30 min

EVO has advertised talk time of 6 hrs. PC Mag did a review and got 7 hrs 24 min

I had to update this: a site known for phone reviews, phonearena.com tested the talk time for the EVO and got different numbers than PC Mag.

It actually got less talk time than what PC Mag posted. At phonearena.com it got 6 hrs, 18 min talk time.

The guy that does reviews is a regular at howardforums.com

 

[rootedEris]

I can't waste time trying to educate people about common sense type of things.

oh please do, youre doing us a GREAT service here.