Get your extended battery now!!!!!!!!

It's true that the original battery is not as good as it should be. But it's also true that we use the phone more just because we can.

I don't know about others and it's only been a week since I got the phone but I read/write e-mails and get on facebook a lot more than I used to.

Because I can, I guess. Once the best games/apps are on the android market, all of us will use the phone even more.

The capabilities and options available on the G1 entice us to hit menu twice, twice more than we would like to :)

Again, $50 is steep but IMO, it's worth to have the piece of mind knowing no matter how much you use it the phone will not die before you get home. Outlets and USB ports are everywhere, that's cool but give me a 2000 mAh battery. A folded USB cable makes a nice bulge in my pocket but I would prefer to leave it at home.
 
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
mah means how much power a battery can deliver in an hour.
So let'say a device draws 100 ma when it's on. This means the battery will last about 11 hours.
The same device with a 1650 mah battery will last about 16.5 hours
.That's a 50% increase.
 
Yeah but I wont buy from a site that doesnt convert the money to US dollars for you. Im too lazy! ;)

Also Im going to try the 2200 battery and use the old cover. If its possible that mights decrease the creaking coming from the back cover. If it wont fit with the old cover I'm stuck though...
 
I would like to return this discussion to the original topic and ask if anyone has tried the extended battery show in post #1? What's the verdict on it? What it a significant increase?
 
lol, i dont see how people's batterys die so fast that they need a bigger battery. I mean i can go all day with texting and calling watching some youtubes videos...etc. and my battery is only at like 70ish % at the end of the day and my day starts a 7:30am. So i feel i get a good amount of life out of my battery.

I guess a bigger battery would be nice if u like surfing the web and what not.
 
I realize I'm late on the reply, but it's every bit a theft. The phone without T-mobile offering it to us at discount would be at least double its current price if not more, and you talk about "the money [you] paid"...???

It did ship with a decent battery. It wasn't meant to replace your laptop, but rather compliment it.

I agree, it should have had a better battery, but you can't complain about the price and yes it is most definitely theft. At least, IMHO.
 
@G1FTW: very true on the usage... the more it does (and better), the more we use it. I haven't had a "phone phone" in like four years and while using a winmo pocket pc was kind of an exercise in unnecessary frustration, when I did use it a lot, the battery died pathetically fast. This thing does everything more/better/faster and I use it a LOT more, and I can drain the battery in about 3-4 hours hanging out in the backyard at night listening to imeem/mp3's, browsing the web, messing with apps, playing solitaire, and just flipping the screen mindlessly...
 
Upon reading a few more posts, it's becoming obvious to me that one of two things has happened:

The first possibility is that a lot of you have defective phones that are drawing a hell of a lot more current from the batteries than they should. In this case, the battery will be quite warm to the touch even without using it (leave it setting on the desk for 15 mintues with the screen locked and dark before feeling it). I find this to be feasible: If it happened to one, it probably happened to an entire lot, seeing as they all came from the same factory using the same assembly lines using the same parts.

The other possibility is that some of you must be using every damned radio that phone's got for the entire day while downloading youtube after youtube on a 3G network... I mean, I don't even have 3G. I turn my wifi and GPS off at work (can't connect to the work network anyway -- against SOP) and I still have over 60% of my phone's battery left after I get home (I want to think I had 74% the other day, and that was with only about an hour of talk time the entire day and almost no other usage). Admittedly, even this is a good deal LOWER than the projected standby time of ... what was it, like 300 hours?

I use the phone as a BACKUP to other more powerful devices. It's an excellent SPARE. Sometimes I'll even use it for my e-mail or posting here simply because I get lazy after work sometimes. But you CAN'T use it IN PLACE OF a full-fledged computer system and expect it to last all day. They didn't market it for teenagers who have to talk to their "BFFLs" all day long inbetween and during classes and after school and when you're 10 feet away from each other in your respective cliques during cheerleader practice or band camp. At least, judging by the only TV commercial I've seen for it, they appear to be marketing it to those individuals who lead busy lives away from home and occasionally need some bit of info or contact through the Internet.

Seriously, get a car charger or something. If you're not a teenager, you probably drive anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes between work and home, and that's more than half a charge on the phone (at least in my case). Plug it in when you're not using it and whenever you're driving. You'll be fine. I know it's not the best solution, but this thing's got a bit of meat behind it it's got to drive and that's going to pull the battery down quite a bit.


Just my US$0.02
 
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