I am getting much better battery life with 1.3.5. Previously, I’d take my Pre off its Touchstone at 7:00am and would need to start charging by 3:00pm or so with moderate use. I might make it to 5:00pm with light to no use. Under the moderate usage scenario, that worked out to about a 10%/hour discharge rate.
The day before yesterday, my family drove into the mountains to play in some snow, and I noticed that although I’d taken my Pre off charge at 9:00am that morning, it had
20% left when we pulled into the driveway that night at 10:00pm. This was using the Pre for navigation, which usually sucked battery life like a drunken sailor. Odd metaphors aside, this works out to a moderate usage discharge rate of roughly 6%. By any reckoning, that’s an impressive improvement.
I’ll return to work on Monday, and I’ll evaluate my battery life in a more typical scenario and report back. So far, I remain very, very pleased with 1.3.5.
Much better battery life. I was only getting about 5 to 6 hours with minamul useage. My phone is at 20% battery life after being off the charger for 16 hours. Before I couldn’t run any apps for a long period of time. Now I can run my twitter app for the 6 hours I’m at work. Also my phone is not randomly turning off and re statrting when ever it feels like it.
Yep, my experience is almost as good. Very, very impressed with what Palm has done with 1.3.5. CES should be exciting!
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