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Originally Posted by stravy
First let me say this phone is just amazing. The screen is mind blowing. The web is....well...the web. Doing anything on this phone is just so much fun but like everyone else the battery permformance is just too limiting. A mobile device is not a mobile device if you have to have it tethered to a power cord to use it. I am not a poweruser by any stretch of the imagination. Yesterday (which is my typical day). 8am to 5pm. Phone off of charger at 7:30 by 5:00 I am getting the warning that my battery needs to be replaced. My usage was as follows: 30min phone, 6 text, 5 min web, 1 youtube vid, and push email. Bluetooth was turned off, Wifi was turned off & Touch Flow was turned off, screen set to turn off after 40 sec but I turned it off manually when I was not using the phone. My wife has a Treo 800w with pretty much the same usage characteristics as me and her phone was at 80%. Location wise, we both work in an office with a window about 1,500 feet from each other.
Right now I think I am at about an 80/20 split. I am 80% decided to go to the treo but I am going to give this phone a few more days but I don't know how it could get better without a non stock ROM update. Even then it sounds like things aren't getting that much better.
Anybody have the inside track on anything that either HTC or Sprint are doing to resolve this? Alot of good people seem to be making some good headway here.
BTW - I just purchased my diamond 4 days ago and it is running ROM version 1.09.651.5 dated 8/4/08.
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I didn't have time to read this entire thread because I'm on my way to work but I had to respond because I switced from the Treo 800w to the Diamond. The battery life on the Treo is worse, way worse, and the Treo is the worst phone i've ever had. In fact I had three of them in 60 days and they were all the same and all terrible. I'll post more when I get to the office but please, save yourself and don't do it.