[ILUG] [OT] HTC Hero / Android

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Shane Tuohy <stuohy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 March 2010 23:58, Gary Boland <gary.boland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 on the nexus, its a great every day phone and indeed mp3 player (32gb
>> micro sd cards now available)
>>
>> How's the battery life Gary?
>
> It can be the worst thing, you have this phone that can do everything, but
> the battery is shite and runs out every 12 hours...
>
> How do you find the battery life on the nexus one in real life tests?
>

 It depends on what you are doing.

 Normally, you'll get ~4 days out of it, if you use it like a phone (disable
data/syncing). I did this when I was in Russia recently, and didn't want to
pay for data roaming rates.

 You'll get two full days if you have 3G turned of, just use GPRS/Wifi for
data, but have full syncing on (I sync podcasts, picasa photos and work +
personal gmail, so I'm a pretty heavy data user).

 If you also use it for playing music, it won't fully sleep. You'll get a
full day out of it.

 If you use it for recording hiking trails (using GPS, display sleeping),
you'll get maybe 4 hours out of it.

 If you use the turn by turn navigation stuff with all the layers enabled
(satellite photo overlay of ground, 3D mode, shops/points of interest
superimposed on the roadsides) you use 3G, GPS, the display, audio etc.
you'll get an hour maybe two (yeah, seriously, an hour. Get a car charger
cable or you are boned).

 That said, like any heavy smartphone user, I now have a dock at home in my
kitchen, and a charging cable by my PC in work and in the car. I'm used to
frequently topping up. You kinda need to if every train journey you are
listening to streaming podcasts while reading ebooks on it :)

 I also keep a charging cable in my laptop bag, so I can charge the phone
from my laptop when travelling. I also have a spare battery in said laptop
bag just in case I run out. Never used it.

John