Htc Touch Pros Battery Life

[Draiko]

official htc talk time is 6.3 hours for the 1340 mah battery in the Touch pro CDMA and
7 hours for the GSM version

http://www.htc.com/uk/product.aspx?id=55314

The CDMA Diamond with a 900 mah battery sports a 4.5 hour talk time... when it hits Sprint as the HTC Victor it'll have a 1340 mah battery bringing the total approx. talk time to 6.7 hours! ((1340/900)*4.5)

Honestly... livemesh, orb, and cloud computing in general is really leading me to the question "do I really need a microSD card slot or are 4 Gigs going to be more than enough?"

I might just go for the Victor(Sprint Diamond) instead of waiting for the Pro and that should hold me over until the Tegra devices come down in price.

[shaggylive]

Originally Posted by Draiko

Honestly... livemesh, orb, and cloud computing in general is really leading me to the question "do I really need a microSD card slot or are 4 Gigs going to be more than enough?"

you may be right, as i'm still using my 2gb card. but what I want to know is what's the battery life on data? what about bluetooth?
I've been wanting a bigger card to have more music readily available and don't really want to drain my mogul's oem battery more than I have to, but I could get 2x4gb for cheeper than 1x8gb, soo.. and 12gb or 16gb are on their way..

[highc]

In Europe there was a Vodafone internal test of the battery life for UMTS = EVDO REV A. It was 4h.
An the device supports micro SD up to the already defined 32GB standrad.

[jbearamus]

Originally Posted by highc

In Europe there was a Vodafone internal test of the battery life for UMTS = EVDO REV A. It was 4h.
An the device supports micro SD up to the already defined 32GB standrad.

where'd ya hear that? i don't think Voda has a REV A network since they're a GSM carrier using HSPA and will move to LTE

[highc]

Simple, I got freinds working at Vodafone HQ in Duesseldorf Germany at the right place. The UMTS HSDPA radio consumes the most power in the GSM device. I have no idea about the CDMA device radio power consumption but I guess it will be similar and that would lead to 4h usage.

[jbearamus]

yeah sorry, the first time i read your last post i didn't catch the umts = part so i apologize for that. and friends on the inside is a great source. and i think the CDMA technologies draw a little bit more power so when they stick a REV A chip in there we may see battery life go down a little bit

[fogmachine]

I have a question that may have already been answered, but does it have a Lithium Ion battery -OR- Lithium Polymer? Because I think that will be more impactful on the battery life than 1340mAh vs 1500mAh. I did download the owners manual for the unlocked version (not CDMA), and it says 'Lithium Ion or Lithium Ion Polymer battery.' Any ideas?

[jbearamus]

i only found the either/or as well. kinda makes sense because you can get either or for the mogul for example. I would think because of the extra cost associated with a Li-poly battery, it will probably be at the carrier's discretion as to what is going to be in the box, but you can also get extra batteries

[holo]

Originally Posted by Draiko

official htc talk time is 6.3 hours for the 1340 mah battery in the Touch pro CDMA and
7 hours for the GSM version

http://www.htc.com/uk/product.aspx?id=55314

The CDMA Diamond with a 900 mah battery sports a 4.5 hour talk time... when it hits Sprint as the HTC Victor it'll have a 1340 mah battery bringing the total approx. talk time to 6.7 hours! ((1340/900)*4.5)

Honestly... livemesh, orb, and cloud computing in general is really leading me to the question "do I really need a microSD card slot or are 4 Gigs going to be more than enough?"

I might just go for the Victor(Sprint Diamond) instead of waiting for the Pro and that should hold me over until the Tegra devices come down in price.

I can't believe the 4gig would be your deciding factor for the diamond vs touch pro

4gig is quite a bit - the real reason for the pro is definitely the keyboard (and tv-out mmm).

[quarky42]

As far as battery life goes I would be inclined to look at the "cousin" in the CDMA flavor: http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-...e-pa_2847.html instead.