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This makes me smile a bit; anybody tried having any/all of these installed and not use them for a day?Hello everybody...
Please note apps like windows live messenger, nimbuzz, im plus etc messaging apps will eat ALOT battery out of STORM2.
It's like RicanMedic said: if you just glance at the screen you won't be using as much battery. I've noticed going an entire day without talking to anyone using messenger(s) uses FAR less than even keeping one or two conversations going, and I use yahoo and BBM only. This is also applicable to having one or two apps versus a hundred, you can have a mind-boggling number and as long as they just sit there and you aren't using your device you'll enjoy better battery life than someone with few apps that lives on his/her phone, especially with the S2 and its giant screen.
This is based on reading multiple threads and my own trial and error. My last BB was a Pearl 8130 (64 megs for device and app software) and even though I stripped it down to get enough room to run yahoo and Windows Live with 14 megs free, I still would occasionally drain its battery before my day was through. If I just left it sitting it would go almost 48 hours on a single charge. Same with my S2; when I first got it and saw I had over 120 megs free I loaded it up with the apps I had wanted on my 8130 but avoided to keep file free memory up. Naturally I thought it was the apps at first that was causing the drain, but over a couple weeks of removal and usage, I came to the conclusion that it was the USAGE more than anything. Look at it this way: if you have 6 apps and use them 5 minutes each right in a row, that's a solid half hour with your screen lit plus data going up and down. Not including phone usage because we all know how that goes. Nowadays I have just what I use constantly installed, and I'm noticing exactly the same trend on my S2 as I did with my 8130 - on weekends when I barely use my S2 I get phenomenal battery life, and Monday through Friday I can usually make it last through the day.
Just for kicks I posted this with my S2 and battery went from 94% to 91% because the screen was lit the whole time.06-13-10 03:13 PM - Yep, though I tend to find Apple a bit more obvious about it, lol. A month or so ago, when they began taking pre-orders for the iPad, I was helping a friend who was on the fence with his decision. I was looking over the specs and explaining things to him when all of a sudden, it hit me "where the heck are the USB ports?" I could not BELIEVE they'd design a device like this without USB ports. I was convinced I was wrong, I was making a mistake, they HAD to be there. When I determined they weren't, I told him that buying it without USB might be a mistake (in addition, he wanted the built in 3G and when I told him "yeah, but you'll have 4G available next year so you'll be stuck" we really began looking at the "planned obsolecense" issues. He went ahead and bought it and received it on release day. He has been enjoying it, but within a week of having it, learned that a new model was already designed that INCLUDED 2 USB ports. Arrrrghhhhhh!
Apple makes this very obvious! Always looking to omit something from a device this year so that they can add it next year! It took how many iphones for them just to add a simple camera flash??? But yet they focused so much on implimenting a compass last year????? For real???
06-19-10 12:42 PM
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