You guys have to understand what is happening in the background of your phones. Androids run through battery quickly because there are tons of apps working in the background. Time, weather, internet, gps, etc etc. They are all updating very often. If you don't need to know the weather every 5 minutes then change the update time.
Do this and you can increase battery life.
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Thread: iphone and droid people-GTFIH
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09-08-2011, 12:26 PM #31
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I am not an apple fan, but I definitely would not buy a Samsung phone unless you really do not care about ever getting updates to your OS.
They are typically the VERY last company to upgrade software, if they do it at all in a lot of cases.There is no spoon.
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09-08-2011, 12:35 PM #34
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09-08-2011, 12:57 PM #36
Good in theory, but if you actually read what that says, it says don't use them except for apps that aren't functioning properly or become unresponsive. Which happens a LOT, and the more apps you install, the more can lock up and become unresponsive. Especially apps that do occasional polling, like ********, Yahoo mail, etc. This isn't a droid issue, but a developer issue and the openness of the droid app development. I haven't noticed most apps that become unresponsive causing any change in battery life, but it definitely affects my phones performance and can make it laggy. I open task killer, sure enough a bunch of unresponsive apps that fail to close, I force them close and BOOM my phone responds more snappy. Though sometimes I just have to reboot to get it back to full speed.
Also, having any email clients that do direct push can drain battery like a mofo, I turn my Touchdown for Exchange app down to a couple minutes or it can take off an hour or more off my battery on push.2 time survivor of The Great Misc Outages of 2022
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09-08-2011, 01:00 PM #37
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09-08-2011, 01:05 PM #38
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09-08-2011, 01:25 PM #40
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09-08-2011, 01:29 PM #41
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09-08-2011, 03:09 PM #42
Desslok has been spot on really.
iPhone you can just set and forget. Android is great if you care about specs/playing around with crap. Most of my friends could care less about that stuff and just want a phone that does everything - photo, internet, video, message, call, social media etc and iPhone does this in the most simple, and user friendly way imo.
Now I'm an Apple Fanboi but, I don't have an iphone 4 - I got the Galaxy S.
I'd just rather have everything easy and user friendly like the iPhone. Will update next year though. Going Apple regardless. Better compatibility with my Macbook Pro too.
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09-08-2011, 03:20 PM #43
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09-08-2011, 03:26 PM #44
Lol, my whole family prefer's Apple, but in our household we have;
Win 7 Desktop, two Macbook Pro's, two Win7 laptop's, two Galaxy S', two iPhone 4's, stupid amount of iPod's.
Fanboi?
Did you get the Mac Mini to use as an HTPC? Then get the iPad 2 for a beast of a controller? iPad worth it? I'm waiting for something with decent specs to come out from Apple in the tablet world. I don't want a tablet that's not Apple - yes fanboi.
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09-08-2011, 03:29 PM #45
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09-08-2011, 04:44 PM #46
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Was looking at more reviews and comparisons and the infuse has a super AMOLED screen and dual core. I think im gonna keep this, seems to have many more options. Who knows thou, that could change in aweek or two. Thanks for all the responses, much appreciated as always!
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