Battery problem

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Originally Posted by Big D5

These little computers use a lot of power to do some things and if not used properly can kill the battery.

Sorry, but that's a very strange thing to say.

I come from owning a long line of Palm Treos and without exception they have all been able to sustain at least a full day's worth of moderate use, including 30-60 minutes of call time, constant push email, light web browsing, casual RSS and ebook reading, and still get home at the end of the day with a comfortable 40%. I never had to turn bluetooth off, ever.

My Mogul is like a baby. I have to turn bluetooth off and have the screen at one of the dimmest levels. Having push email and no call time whatsoever gives me 7 hours' battery if I'm lucky. If I make any phone calls that rapidly drops to 6 hours or less. Do anything else - read RSS feeds, light browsing for a couple of minutes - and I'm looking at 5 hours to a dead battery. I've had it last as little as 4 hours.

Asking the user of a phone to switch it to flight mode so it will last a day is just not reasonable. This has nothing to do with knowing how to use a device. It's just poor performance and very low standards, period.