[pastafarian]

I never owned a Touch, but my experience is that after all the tweaking I can think find, my TP gets ~1/4- 1/3 LESS time on a full charge than the Mogul it replaced. I carry at least 1 extra battery with me and 2 if I think it will be a long day of heavy use. For me, the only way it makes a full work day on a charge is if I use it exclusively as a phone and use that lightly. With moderate use (sending and recieving 5-10 texts/email, 5-10 phone calls, light browsing, 1 rss update ), I'm lucky if a full charge gets me to 1 PM. I know someone will probably chime in that they can use their TP continuosly for 2 weeks on a charge, but from what I've read here my battery life experience is similar to the majority of users. The only phone I have experience with that has worse battery life than a TP is the G1. To be fair, the majority of the current touch screen smartphones aren't dramatically better.