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Originally Posted by jpeepers
I just upgraded last week from the touch to the Diamond and could not be more disappointed.
It's a beautiful phone, faster then the Touch, nicer screen, Wi-Fi. but all that is useless if the phone will not last through the day. The battery life is HORRIBLE! Worst WM phone I have ever owned.
My phone was on the charger all night. Took it off at 8:30 this morning and have made 3, 10 minute phone calls, Surfed RSS for about 15 minutes, Have received about 10 emails via exchange server. It's now 1:30 and the phone is about to die. Completely unacceptable in my book. My Touch would go all day with three times the use.
I guarantee if you are using Kinoma every hour that it will be dead by noon.
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You should really look into the Custom ROM world. My diamond used to behave like this but after using and building my own custom ROMs with lots of good battery life improving updates and changing the stock sprint radio for the verizon touch pro radio my Diamond can go through the day with a lot of abuse. I have mine synching with exchange as items arrive (and I receive a LOT of e-mail daily), my phone doesn't stop ringing between 9am and 6pm and I regularly use my browser to log into web services using VPN connections (many of the servers and devices I manage use web applications for administration). I unplug from the charger at 8am and it's battery lies at around 20% at the end of my work day. This is when I never plug it in to charge in the office. Most of the time I am nearby a charger and I also have a 2nd battery but I'd just like to post this to let the OP know that this particular battery issue has been solved. You just have to step into the custom ROM world.
And in contrast, I think this is THE BEST WM phone that has ever been produced. Second only to the Touch PRO if you really need the hardware keyboard and expandable memory.