[ScrapMaker]

The problem we are having here is that there is absolutely no consistancy in what people believe is "heavy use."

I was having to charge my phone 2-3 times a day when I all I had running was Exchange (getting less than 10 emails a day,) gmail, checking once an hour, 10-30 minutes of talk, and about 50 text messages.

I don't consider that heavy use at all--I see that as extremely LIGHT use.

All I know, is with the same exact programs running, my Touch lasts all day, and has about 50% battery when I toss it on the charger.

It's possible that it's the build, or random-chance that I got all these faulty phones, but what is MORE likely, is that the radio is horribly flawed, (which we are all pretty much aware of,) and the fact that anything uses the radio at all, causes huge drain--more than any other WM phone, like the Touch.

So while checking a few emails and getting a few texts may not seem like a lot, for the Touch Pro, and it's radio power consumption, it is...

My brother was able to get 2-3 days with constant Exchange use, of over 300 emails a day... about 50 texts, and about an hour of calling each day.

I am convinced that it's just the CDMA radio. Hopefully a software update really can fix it...

@ Orlando... You DO realize that when the "Pros" review phones, they don't use them very long, right? The review comes out after a few hours of testing. They don't use it heavily, or for a month... One other thing to note, is that 99% of review sites, and "Pros," are reviewing the GSM model, and then they do a "quickie" on the CDMA version when it comes out... because they don't really care... CDMA is no where near as popular as GSM, unfortunately...

So the chances of a reviewer catching all the stuff that we are is pretty slim... Not one reviewer mentioned the poor build quality, unresponsive Touch screen that is nearly unusable around the edges, or that the phone gets extremely hot, or overheats, or any of that... Which leads me to believe that they mostly just copy-pasted their review of the GSM model, with a few highlights from the CDMA model---like if there was a different battery...