What mobile phone do you use?

[Meiun]

Minus the battery draining very rapidly (I have to recharge every evening, rarely an exception

That has been an issue with every cell phone I have ever had. After about a year of use the battery starts crapping out.

I have the Droid X. It was great when I first got it. It's been about a year. It now runs slowly and the battery drains quickly. I've tried the new Iphone. I think I wouldn't mind trying it out for my next phone. It seems to run a lot smoother.

The one thing I can definitely compliment Apple on is the battery life of their devices.  The whole recent iOS issue aside, they've mastered battery life.  My old iPhone could go days before it would die.  Androids in general don't have that luxury it seems.  Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

I can agree with that for the most part, although I do believe there are some Android phones that get as good battery life, really depends on the model/manufacturer. But the one thing that annoyed me the most in regards to battery back when I had my iPhone was that after a year or two when the battery life starts to diminish, you basically have to buy a new phone. I specifically bought the deluxe service plan/warranty bundle for the sole reason that (according to the Apple rep who sold it to me), I could get my battery replaced after a year or two. After about 2 years when my battery starts to go south, I take it to an Apple store and they pretty much say "oh, it's suppose to suck after this long. Sorry." Most other phones let you replace your own battery, which I always feel is a plus.

Right now I have a Droid 2. It gets comparable battery life to my iPhone 3G as far as I can tell. I definitely wouldn't buy another Droid 2, due to a number of issues I've had. But i still prefer it over my old iPhone in all honesty. Next time around I will probably go for another Android phone, but just get one made by somebody other than Motorola.

[ARTgames]

The one thing I can definitely compliment Apple on is the battery life of their devices.  The whole recent iOS issue aside, they've mastered battery life.  My old iPhone could go days before it would die.  Androids in general don't have that luxury it seems. 

From what I understand that is true. But with the problem that you cant replace the battery. And the reason for that is because the ios device or laptop (you cant replace the battery's on there laptop also) it because they can fit more battery in there that way. They also make there own chips (on the iso device side) and make there software battery efficient. Which im cool with.

Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

That laptop must have been touched by the hands of god. The Macbook air today gets around 7 hours in magic land. Unless by entire day of straight you mean the laptop was on power saver with the screen off running a text editor.

[Scotty]

Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

That laptop must have been touched by the hands of god. The Macbook air today gets around 7 hours in magic land. Unless by entire day of straight you mean the laptop was on power saver with the screen off running a text editor.

Don't read into the details that much, as it was many years ago, thus I don't really recall how long, I just remember running the thing all weekend and often times sitting there befuddled over how it's still running after being used for so many hours. 

[Meiun]

The one thing I can definitely compliment Apple on is the battery life of their devices.  The whole recent iOS issue aside, they've mastered battery life.  My old iPhone could go days before it would die.  Androids in general don't have that luxury it seems. 

From what I understand that is true. But with the problem that you cant replace the battery. And the reason for that is because the ios device or laptop (you cant replace the battery's on there laptop also) it because they can fit more battery in there that way. They also make there own chips (on the iso device side) and make there software battery efficient. Which im cool with.

Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

That laptop must have been touched by the hands of god. The Macbook air today gets around 7 hours in magic land. Unless by entire day of straight you mean the laptop was on power saver with the screen off running a text editor.

Pshh. My HP laptop can get close to 10 hours of battery life (easily over 8 at the minimum), and play Skyrim on high. Can't do both at the same time of-course... But still :P

[T-Rok]

The one thing I can definitely compliment Apple on is the battery life of their devices.  The whole recent iOS issue aside, they've mastered battery life.  My old iPhone could go days before it would die.  Androids in general don't have that luxury it seems. 

From what I understand that is true. But with the problem that you cant replace the battery. And the reason for that is because the ios device or laptop (you cant replace the battery's on there laptop also) it because they can fit more battery in there that way. They also make there own chips (on the iso device side) and make there software battery efficient. Which im cool with.

Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

That laptop must have been touched by the hands of god. The Macbook air today gets around 7 hours in magic land. Unless by entire day of straight you mean the laptop was on power saver with the screen off running a text editor.

Pshh. My HP laptop can get close to 10 hours of battery life (easily over 8), and play Skyrim on high. Can't do both at the same time of-course... But still :P

Pfffft, all those laptops suck. Mine can go a whopping 2 hours before it dies from idling with the screen off. Gateway NV54 is a boss.

[Scotty]

The one thing I can definitely compliment Apple on is the battery life of their devices.  The whole recent iOS issue aside, they've mastered battery life.  My old iPhone could go days before it would die.  Androids in general don't have that luxury it seems. 

From what I understand that is true. But with the problem that you cant replace the battery. And the reason for that is because the ios device or laptop (you cant replace the battery's on there laptop also) it because they can fit more battery in there that way. They also make there own chips (on the iso device side) and make there software battery efficient. Which im cool with.

Heck, I remember back in school when they actually lent me a real old apple laptop for some video editing I was doing, that thing would take an entire day of straight usage to die, where as any other laptop I'd seen wouldn't last 4-6 hours at the time.

That laptop must have been touched by the hands of god. The Macbook air today gets around 7 hours in magic land. Unless by entire day of straight you mean the laptop was on power saver with the screen off running a text editor.

Pshh. My HP laptop can get close to 10 hours of battery life (easily over 8), and play Skyrim on high. Can't do both at the same time of-course... But still :P

Pfffft, all those laptops suck. Mine can go a whopping 2 hours before it dies from idling with the screen off. Gateway NV54 is a boss.

I'm with Meiun, my HP laptop easily dies after 1 second from unplugging it... Oh wait...
Yeah I blame shoddy Iraqi power for that one...

[stick d00d]

The more you use the laptop unplugged the quicker the overall battery life drains. My old Sony laptop could easily go 6-8 hours brand new but after a year or 2 it would die after 45 minutes to an hour....

[Meiun]

Yeah, after a few years your battery is going to have deteriorated some regardless of how efficient your computer is at using it. There are a few things you can do to help prolong it a bit though, such as the fact that lithium ion batteries like to be left fully charged as much as possible (meaning leaving the battery dead for weeks probably inst helping things much). That, and I've tended to notice that most people who don't have their charger plugged into a surge protector on a regular basis seem to end up with totally dead batteries long before I ever do.

[Luke Awesome J]

I had to get a new laptop due to my old computer's battery life. Sure, it was a desktop, but it died the moment you unplugged it. Disappointing.

[T-Rok]

Actually, another thing I want to point out. If it wasn't for the ability to jailbreak the iPhone, I would not own one. Which is why I've been stuck on firmware 4.1 until today. YAY FOR NEW EXPLOITS. ^_^ 5.0 here I come.

[Matty_Richo]

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S and I'm not a huge fan of the battery life, I need to charge it every night with few exceptions.

But it's a pretty good phone at that, other than the battery life, and the fact that Samsung Kies is the most retarded program ever and won't let me update my phone to 2.3.

[darkflash]

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