Hopefully, this will be helpful to some� I know there have been tons of posts relating to battery life on the PB, along with suggestions regarding wifi, Bluetooth, and screen brightness. I just wanted to confirm the significant improvement of battery life by lowering the screen brightness to the midway point or lower.
Yesterday, I started with 100% battery life. I streamed Slacker Radio for about 3 hours and surfed the internet and played a few games for another hour. After about 4 hours of heavy use, battery was at 85%. That was a HUGE improvement for me. Overnight, the PB was not charged. I woke up to 83%. Prior to this, the only change I made to my PB was that I lowered the screen brightness to the midway point. (I should also mention that I was not bridged during this.)
I've had my PB for about a week now and I've run some unofficial tests on it. Ive found that the difference from 100% brightness to 0% brightness is about 30% battery life. That's what Ive got so far that's just doing daily things like downloading apps, playing games, surfing the web, and emailing things like that.
only time i have mine above 30% is when its in the car to get around the glare, other than that its more than enough (in fact on 0 with dimming on its still too bright in a dark room, guess thats what i get for checking emails in bed )
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