What Kind of battery life are we looking at here?

[AMTrombley0924]

I know this is all preliminary speculation, but I was hoping to compare this phone's life to that of the RAZR's. Given the size of the battery, what kind of battery life are we expecting out of this thing? I plan on using JuiceDefender. Does Smart Actions actually extend life like Moto says it does? With a combination of WiFi and LTE, could I expect to actually get a full day (10-12h) out of this thing?

 

[RideZeLitenin]

Review here states positive things:
Motorola Droid 4 (Verizon Wireless) Review & Rating | PCMag.com

Battery life was excellent. I got an awesome 11 hours, 47 minutes of 3G talk time on the 1,785 mAh battery. That should put the Droid 4 significantly above average for 4G Web surfing as well. And Motorola's Smart Actions software, which does things like optionally turn data off while you're sleeping, helps even more. Speaking of 4G, the Droid 4 got solid speeds of around 10Mbps down on Verizon's 4G LTE network, and the phone works as both a tethered modem and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

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[zeroibis]

The wired tethering is very good to hear. Wired tethering is very important to me b/c wifi is to easy to crack and I feel a lot safer for work using my phone with a direct line for internet when there is no secured network available.

 

[anguskahn]

Do you have to pay extra for tethering/hotspot?

 

[zeroibis]

yes

 

[fastharryDOTcom]

the real question is, how hard will it be to replace the battery. No matter what life it has now, remember it loses 20% of that in 150 charge cycles.

 

[RHaggard]

I got one this weekend so I'm sure I'm doing all kinds of things incorrectly but my battery life is about 2 hours. With the official Verizon car charger I get about 4 hours with the Navigator running. WiFi is off. Bluetooth is off. Once at the office I plug it in to the wall and by noon it will be charged again.

At the same time that I'm charging I'm also doing a wifi hotspot for my laptop (I use FoxFi and it seems to work very well). Before upgrading to this phone I was using a Kyocera 3G cell phone modem for my laptop connection needs. I had bought an unlimited plan back when it was still available for 60/month. I was told that I could not hold on to this plan when I took the upgrade to the Droid so I was forced into buying the 10 gig limited, which the counter sales person swore was much more than I could possibly need. She was wrong. I passed 2 gig on the first day I had the phone.

 

[Bodycount]

I got one this weekend so I'm sure I'm doing all kinds of things incorrectly but my battery life is about 2 hours. With the official Verizon car charger I get about 4 hours with the Navigator running. WiFi is off. Bluetooth is off. Once at the office I plug it in to the wall and by noon it will be charged again.

At the same time that I'm charging I'm also doing a wifi hotspot for my laptop (I use FoxFi and it seems to work very well). Before upgrading to this phone I was using a Kyocera 3G cell phone modem for my laptop connection needs. I had bought an unlimited plan back when it was still available for 60/month. I was told that I could not hold on to this plan when I took the upgrade to the Droid so I was forced into buying the 10 gig limited, which the counter sales person swore was much more than I could possibly need. She was wrong. I passed 2 gig on the first day I had the phone.

I guess if you dont have a wifi connection available to you.. I can see the 10 gig plan not being enough for some people. I do 95% of my data through wifi.. either at home or at work. Only time I use 3g/4g is when I'm driving and something wants to update. I think last month I used a total of 300 megs out of my 4 gig plan lol.

 

[Styrisvps]

Review here states positive things:
Motorola Droid 4 (Verizon Wireless) Review & Rating | PCMag.com

Battery life was excellent. I got an awesome 11 hours, 47 minutes of 3G talk time on the 1,785 mAh battery. That should put the Droid 4 significantly above average for 4G Web surfing as well. And Motorola's Smart Actions software, which does things like optionally turn data off while you're sleeping, helps even more. Speaking of 4G, the Droid 4 got solid speeds of around 10Mbps down on Verizon's 4G LTE network, and the phone works as both a tethered modem and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

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