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06-30-2010, 09:08 AM
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Well I went back to my 8330 and it only took 2 days before I was ready to flush it down the toilet. I guess I will have to live with the keyboard of the Pre and keeping it on the charger all the time. I could not stand the 8330 after using the Pre.
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06-30-2010, 01:50 PM
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I am still not sure how you are having to 'keep it on the charger'. Contrary to the 'mountainman', my Pre goes on the touchstone at bedtime, comes off in the morning, and when it goes back on at the end of the day still has 30 - 50% charge...and thats with it overclocked to 720. Are you sure you don't have a bad battery? In fact, I had to let it discharge the other day just for battery health and it was in use for 2 days when it alerted me to 10% battery.
So, this whole 'keeping it on the charger' isn't exactly normal...
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06-30-2010, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by reeneebob  I am still not sure how you are having to 'keep it on the charger'. Contrary to the 'mountainman', my Pre goes on the touchstone at bedtime, comes off in the morning, and when it goes back on at the end of the day still has 30 - 50% charge...and thats with it overclocked to 720. Are you sure you don't have a bad battery? In fact, I had to let it discharge the other day just for battery health and it was in use for 2 days when it alerted me to 10% battery.
So, this whole 'keeping it on the charger' isn't exactly normal... | I am up and the phone is off the ts at 5am, and if I don't charge it through the day the phone is dead by 1pm. I have 4 email's on it that is set to as items arrive. I'm not a heavy user of the phone, other than hotspot, but when I do use hotspot I put it on the charger while using hotspot. Maybe I will go into the VZW store next week and see about getting the battery replaced and see if that helps.
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06-30-2010, 08:01 PM
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Get the extended life/heavy duty battery, it's worth it.
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06-30-2010, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by gaganchow Get the extended life/heavy duty battery, it's worth it. | I thought I read someplace that you can't use the TS with the extended battery? I love the TS and how the phone shows the time when on it, no need for a bedside clock.
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07-02-2010, 06:06 PM
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The email thing could be part of the problem. When I had my hotmail, bell.net and gmail all set to deliver instantly there was more drain becuase only gmail works as push. The battery drain problem improved GREATLY when I went into my bell and hotmail accounts and set them to forward to my gmail. Then on my Pre I set hotmail and bell to only update manually, and left gmail as "as arrives". I still get my emails as they arrive and the battery drain was improved HUGELY.
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07-13-2010, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ok4a56 Well I went back to my 8330 and it only took 2 days before I was ready to flush it down the toilet. I guess I will have to live with the keyboard of the Pre and keeping it on the charger all the time. I could not stand the 8330 after using the Pre. | Are you using the original Pre or the latest one, the Pre Plus?
I'm eligible for an early upgrade and I'm considering the Pre Plus. I have a Curve and I really like it. Can you give me some of your personal pros and cons to the Pre?
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07-13-2010, 06:11 PM
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I have the Pre Plus.
Pros
OS system blows BB out of the water.
Exchange email - I think the Pre does exchange way better than BB (on BIS). It is instant email, and also syncs to my address book and calendar on exchange.
Free Mobile Hot Spot - This is what was the deal breaker for me getting the Pre.
Cons
Battery life - it plain sucks. I lived off my phone charger. I would say my phone sat on the charger 80% of the day.
Keyboard - I did 80% to 90% of my email on my curve, and with the Pre it dropped to about 10%.
If they could put a curve keyboard and get the battery to last like the Curve does it would be one heck of a phone.
I wiped my curve and started over with it. I think one of the problems was I had so much stuff on it, that was the reasons it was so slow.
I once again went back to my curve. It is running better after my wipe. I thought I could live with the crappy keyboard and battery life, but I can't.
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07-14-2010, 05:30 PM
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I spoke to soon, broke my curve today, Damn back to the Pre
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07-14-2010, 08:22 PM
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yeah I thought the pre was cool too but I'd stick with the BB
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07-22-2010, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ok4a56 I have the Pre Plus.
Pros
OS system blows BB out of the water.
Exchange email - I think the Pre does exchange way better than BB (on BIS). It is instant email, and also syncs to my address book and calendar on exchange.
Free Mobile Hot Spot - This is what was the deal breaker for me getting the Pre.
Cons
Battery life - it plain sucks. I lived off my phone charger. I would say my phone sat on the charger 80% of the day.
Keyboard - I did 80% to 90% of my email on my curve, and with the Pre it dropped to about 10%.
If they could put a curve keyboard and get the battery to last like the Curve does it would be one heck of a phone.
I wiped my curve and started over with it. I think one of the problems was I had so much stuff on it, that was the reasons it was so slow.
I once again went back to my curve. It is running better after my wipe. I thought I could live with the crappy keyboard and battery life, but I can't.
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My sentiments exactly, but the free mobile hotspot actually helped me with e-mail, i just boot it up and write lengthy emails when i have to. I am also glad to see some one else agree with me, the pre handles email better than the BB, i know that i often had problems with my @me.com email and the pre handles them nicely. As for the battery issue it does guzzle power quite fast, have you tried turning you GPS off? i found that this helped immensely. if not buy a spare battery, you don't have to buy an extended one just a stock battery.
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07-25-2010, 06:11 PM
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Hi Folks,
I have a Pre, and have to say that the keyboard is horrible.
So, if you do heavy email, I would avoid it.
On the other hand, the machine is beautiful. In the hand, it feels perfect. It is a pleasure to use...
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