2012 Android mobiles.

Streeteh said:
At least it seems the DHD was a 'blip' in the system, it was worrying that a phone that struggles to make it through a single day made it through R&D imo.
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To be fair, I've found my DHD actually lasts longer than my Hero and definitely longer than my gf's Desire. She has to charger hers up every night whereas I can get two days use out of mine and I use it more than her!

I'd still like to be able to use it for a few days though without having to charge it.. Apart from that I love it!
 
Street said:
To be fair, I've found my DHD actually lasts longer than my Hero and definitely longer than my gf's Desire. She has to charger hers up every night whereas I can get two days use out of mine and I use it more than her!
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That is entirely down to how you have it setup though, obviously hers is a syncing mess when it comes to battery life.

The DHD battery isn't as bad as people make out, but its not good.
 
[TW]Fox;18984054 said:
All I want is considerable battery improvements. I love everything about my Desire except this. I don't need a HD Camcorder. I don't need a 200 megapixel camera.

I just want my Desire - with more battery.
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I agree entirely. There is nothing my phone can't do that others can't, even those due in the next 12-18 months - at least not anything that will ever be useful to me.

Only improvement I'd really want... more battery so I don't have to charge the damn thing every night!
 
[TW]Fox;18984054 said:
All I want is considerable battery improvements. I love everything about my Desire except this. I don't need a HD Camcorder. I don't need a 200 megapixel camera.

I just want my Desire - with more battery.
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Streeteh said:
This much is true.

It's a worry that the SGS2, a phone not even released, already has a licensed 'battery extender' case. I'd rather they made it 2mm thicker and whacked in a bigger battery over this 'thinnest phone ever' crap tbh. What use is a thin phone if it's run out of charge?
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Quoted for verity! How skinny are your poser jeans that you need a 0.8cm phone ffs? And how attractive are all your friends that nothing less than a 12mp camera can capture their radiance? If a 45' call can eat up a quarter of my battery, and a couple of hours of using it as a mobile hotspot for my laptop can eat up half, what good are all its features? Without juice it's just a shiny brick in your pocket!

I'm not a big fan of RIM but these days they seem to be the only company that still understands that phones are meant to be used, not just flashed about to impress people.
 
Streeteh said:
This much is true.

It's a worry that the SGS2, a phone not even released, already has a licensed 'battery extender' case. I'd rather they made it 2mm thicker and whacked in a bigger battery over this 'thinnest phone ever' crap tbh. What use is a thin phone if it's run out of charge?

At least it seems the DHD was a 'blip' in the system, it was worrying that a phone that struggles to make it through a single day made it through R&D imo.
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Yes the Samsung Galaxy S2 is a super fast handset thanks to the 1.2Ghz processor that it incorporates. Not only is this one of the largest available in a mobile handset, but it also is a dual core unit, enabling effortless multi tasking and generally quicker response in all areas. The processor is joined by a hefty 1Ghz of RAM and 16GB of internal storage capacity, ideal for storing all manner of material including multiple audio files or snaps and footage captured by the phone itself. The camera is a cut above the standard found on most smartphones, and offers a high quality 8 mega pixel image. The camera is accompanied by an LED flash to make shots in poor lighting much more effective. Video footage is also great, with the S2 being one of only a handful of models able to capture 1080P, the highest resolution HD footage possible.
 
They aren't really phones anymore though, more like portable computers.

The key point you all make is that YOU dont need those things, there are plenty of people that have uses for them.

Buy a Blackberry then, and you can spend all day on the phone to your hearts content.
 
I take back my comments about the SGS2, clearly the battery extender is for people who plan to use it for several days without charge or something. It seems it's actually slightly better than the previous generation of phones. I imagine this is due to dual core actually being more energy efficient (not sure how that works? meh) and OLED taking tiny amounts of electricity compared to similar tech.

With medium-light usage i reckon you'd get two days out of it np. With heavy usage it lasted from 6:40am til around 11pm before it started kicking up a fuss about power save mode etc.
 
Streeteh said:
I take back my comments about the SGS2, clearly the battery extender is for people who plan to use it for several days without charge or something. It seems it's actually slightly better than the previous generation of phones. I imagine this is due to dual core actually being more energy efficient (not sure how that works? meh) and OLED taking tiny amounts of electricity compared to similar tech.

With medium-light usage i reckon you'd get two days out of it np. With heavy usage it lasted from 6:40am til around 11pm before it started kicking up a fuss about power save mode etc.
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Is that based on your own usage? What do you define as heavy use?

My Desire Z lasts for just under 2 days with light use (which I define as sending&receivign 5-10 texts, talking for no more than half an hour a day, and maybe half an hour browsing the web over wifi). Heavy use it doesn't even last a day, and if I were to try and use it during a long trip (say one where I would have to stay at an airport for 6 hours waiting for a connecting flight and would want to use my phone to check emails, catch up with some work, or entertain myself for a couple of those hours) I know it would die on me before I had a chance to recharge it.
 
Traveling absolutely ruins the battery on my Milestone, is this normal with all phones? If I turn off 3g it saves it a lot but if I go anywhere on a train my battery will drop like a stone.
 
I would hope that the newly dscivered Chemical Li-Ion Charge that can charge an average phone battery from dead to full in about 20 secs would be put into some phones...not meant to last longer or anything.
 
To me it's weird that smartphone revolution focused so much on size and iphone looks and not battery life. Considering the most popular business phone series of all time was Nokia 62x0/63x0 solely BECAUSE it had real life talk time of something close to 6 hours and stand by time of 14 days with regular battery and 20+ days with "fat piggyback" battery and so many people on the move would use them as laptop and PDA modems etc etc, you would image at least one smartphone manufacturer would make an effort and address this sector of the market even if at cost of fashion and/or thickness of the device. Smartphone should be a phone in the first place, everything else is just extras.

And the same goes for the whole "number game" with phones. I would rather if my phone had 2Mpixel camera but took pictures with quality of 11 year old 2Mpixel Canon A20 than have 16gazzillion pixels and do grainy, pixelated mess of everything. I'd rather the graphics sucked at games and couldn't cope with h264 acceleration but was super swift in menus and message typing. I would prefer it didn't have ultra fast wifi chipset, I'm not going to be running sabnzb, or perform cross server database rsyncs on it, but instead if bluetooth supported full browsing and file exchanging with the device, let alone rSAP or pairing for SMS display on in-car or PC devices - that would be enough for me. Don't care about it upscaling appallingly poor video captures from plastic lens to full HD resolution on LCD TVs via tiny sockets, but a good FM radio, if we must push the slate - perhaps with DAB capability - wouldn't go amiss. etc etc.
 
manveruppd said:
Is that based on your own usage? What do you define as heavy use?
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Own use.

I define heavy as the screen basically being on around 50% of the time, web browsing constantly and downloading and installing apps throughout most of the day. Made a few videos, took a few photos etc.

Also watched a chunk of an ep of doctor who :)
 
^ Sounds great. (~7 hours "screen-on" time then?)

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Sound's like you're looking at the past through rose tinted glasses :D

The Motorola Atrix hits about 12 hours 3G talk time. Turn everything off apart from the basic radio and it should get well over 14 days standby too.
In fact most smartphones will get over 6 hours talk time and 5+ days standby on "dumb mode" depending on signal strength.

These new phones pack the same power/more features/connectivity than a netbook but with over 4 times the battery life. Bloody marvellous if you ask me.
 
sarge78 said:
^ Sounds great. (~7 hours "screen-on" time then?)
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I'd say roughly that yeah. Strangely though the phone says that the 'android system' is using 75% of the battery and the screen a mere 8%. Methinks some power saving tweaks are needed, but hey, the stock power settings are usually naff.
 
Streeteh said:
Own use.

I define heavy as the screen basically being on around 50% of the time, web browsing constantly and downloading and installing apps throughout most of the day. Made a few videos, took a few photos etc.

Also watched a chunk of an ep of doctor who :)
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That's actually pretty good then, especially compared to the current crop of phones! Mind you, a lot of it will be due to the SAMOLED, and Samsung has basically cornered the market on those screens (since they make them, I think they sell a few to Nokia but that's it). I still think they should've fit a bigger battery in and made it a proper workhorse! Maybe they're saving that for the hardware keyboard version eh? (One can dream at least:p)
 
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