Taking back the Eris today, going iphone instead.

[Pinnacle]

(In my best deep booming voice with a dash of tremelo)

DOOOOOMED!!! DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!
Us Eris owners are all DOOOOOOMED!!!!!

What a drama queen. My battery lasts more than a whole day and sometimes almost 2 days.

I find it quite amusing how people defend or attack certain phones like it's their child. You people (and you know who I'm talking about) need to seriously get a life.

I am a fanboy of no certain brand of phone. I happen to like several different phones for different reasons. It's called personal preference. You use what best suites your needs and wants.

On the flip side, I also find it amusing how some are so self absorbed that they feel we all need or want to know that they are changing phones.

With my above statement I feel it is safe to conclude that a smart person a smartphone does not make.

 

[ills_nice]

Hey...this is the second time I have heard about Page Plus....do you like it? Does it have the exact coverage of Verizon? If so, it seems like an awesome choice.

 

[karib]

My phone last all day no problems.

+1 very happy with my Eris It was down to 15-20% at about 11pm last night and that is with moderate usage as the phone is only 1 week old! I had the moto droid and took it back for the eris, great decision. Although I might consider upgrading the battery just because I can

 

[bjanow]

My wife has the eris, I have the droid. The keyboard (virtual) is no way better on the Eris, mainly because it's slow. When I use her phone, I have to wait for it to catch up.

Her battery dies with little useage before 11 pm. Yesterday for example, she made 0 calls. She was on the internet looking at something for her job for 15 minutes. That's it.

The Eris is not a dependable phone. It will leave you stranded eventually, but from all the posts I read here, it already has most people.

My wife carries a travel charger, and two batteries. That's ridiculous. But, the only thing she cares about is it's size. To each their own.

imo, the eris is another failed HTC device. All of their android phones have battery issues. Why doesn't Motorola?

A question all of you should be asking instead of settling.

It is a question we are asking, no one is settling. But when I saw my friend with a brick iPhone, needing an extra battery tethered to the phone in order to get through the day, I said no way, no how. So I bought a nice little spare battery, throw it in my jeans change pocket and I have at least 24 hours to find a USB cord or head home. I can even use my car charger from my old BB if I get really crushed with phone calls. And I totally agree with your wife about the size, it's the best. Way better than the Pearl, the iPhone brick, or the huge BB Tour.

As for the lag, I agree. But once you realize you are not working with a dual core processor you learn to relax a little and slow down. The Dolphin browser is great, music is great, internet, and phone service all perfect, imo.

 

[MisterMcGoo]

My wife has the eris, I have the droid. The keyboard (virtual) is no way better on the Eris, mainly because it's slow. When I use her phone, I have to wait for it to catch up.

Her battery dies with little useage before 11 pm. Yesterday for example, she made 0 calls. She was on the internet looking at something for her job for 15 minutes. That's it.

If you turn off the texting vibrate response preference, it pretty much negates any lag you might have with the Eris virtual keyboard. I did this yesterday and it seemed to help (not that I had much lag to begin with).

Not sure about your battery issue, I get about 36 hours with my Eris. I text probably 30-50 times and surf the Internet for 10 - 15 min per day.

 

[Frisco]

Of course the trackball is kind of sucky playing brick breaker.

Maybe I should go to iPhone.

 

[hattrick]

Off the charger at 7:20am. Done about 30 minutes of web/facebook, 20 minutes of checking/responding to emails, 10 sms, checked weather channel app a few times and I'm at 82% almost 7 hours later on stock battery. 3G and GPS full time.

I usually double the activity above and throw in 15-20 min of calls by the end of the day. I plug in around midnight with 40-45% remaining.

If your wife is having such bad battery life I would setting her phone up with some of the suggestions from Optimize Battery sticky. Manually setting the brightness of the screen alone can make a huge difference.

 

[MZPilotGuy]

If you turn off the texting vibrate response preference, it pretty much negates any lag you might have with the Eris virtual keyboard. I did this yesterday and it seemed to help (not that I had much lag to begin with).

Not sure about your battery issue, I get about 36 hours with my Eris. I text probably 30-50 times and surf the Internet for 10 - 15 min per day.

You can do that?? i didn't see that option, mind pointing me/us in the right direction?

By the way I'm another new guy. Hi all!

Found it! Settings >> Locale and text >> Touch input >> Text input >> Vibrate when typing

WOW..... I think it makes a HUGE difference with the "Lag" when typing. so much BETTER.

 

[smacky]

I have the two-tone vibrate feature enabled for my texts, along with a notification. Does the vibrate feature sap battery life? I get about 30-40 texts a day, so it's essentially ringing 60-80 times, but just for a split second. Not sure if vibrate takes a lot of power from the battery to do it.

 

[doogald]

I have the two-tone vibrate feature enabled for my texts, along with a notification. Does the vibrate feature sap battery life? I get about 30-40 texts a day, so it's essentially ringing 60-80 times, but just for a split second. Not sure if vibrate takes a lot of power from the battery to do it.

According to Verizon, vibrating takes more battery power than audible notifications.

See here.

The tone notification uses less power than the vibrate notification.