mrjoec

I have two batteries. I popped in a freshly charged one last night at about 10 pm. When I woke up this morning at 7 am, my battery was down to 57%. This is with Bluetooth off, auto-update of Date and Time off, Auto-off after 1 minute, and the screen at less than half brightness.

I do have Chatter checking my email once every half hour, but that's for one account, and it doesn't happen between 11pm and 6am. So at most, it checked my email 4 times. I also have BackupMan run a backup at 3am, which takes approximately two minutes. That activity alone, plus sitting idle with full signal strength, killed almost half my battery in nine hours. I have to say, that's a bit worse than expected.

My 650 could easily go two days without a charge.

I do not consider myself a heavy user. So far, I've been playing with it more than I usually would, because it's a new toy, after all. But at this rate, if I'm going to talk on the phone at all, I'm going to go through more than a battery a day. And that doesn't bode well for Palm trying to bring this phone to the "masses". Your average person doesn't charge his/her phone every day. Some people only charge a couple of times a week. And few, if any, average people, carry around a spare battery.

Unless I'm doing something wrong. I don't know. Maybe I have another app or two that is constantly draining my battery.

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mrjoec
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