Me & my Droid

Lot of guys asked about this review (mostly about battery life) and I know they’re waiting. So here we go about initial-charge performance of the battery.

Day 1

Played with the device. Still trying to figure out how to get things done. External speaker is way out of preferred levels. Screen quality is acceptable but it could be better. But can’t complain considering the price limit.

Day 2

As one guy posted on a forum, charged the battery for 12 hours. Seems he was right. Charger and battery was considerably warm after 6 hours and still not that cool after 12 hours. Samsung, there’s something fishy going on with your batteries. Turned off 3G, Wi-Fi and sync. Device is running on 2G now. I wanted to check the devices performance without battery draining activities.

Day 3

After few call and SMS battery is at 90% and started playing again with setting up account and synchronization. After 2 hours play battery is still around 70% range. Now the device is customized to a certain level (wallpaper, ringtone, account, apps, etc.) and left idle. Still no hardcore activities. Needed to check battery levels on normal usage. (Unplug counter reset once plugged into USB, but I assure it was only for around 2 minutes.)

Day 4

Battery was at 52% range.  Made couple of calls and received few alerts and messages. At the day end it’s around 40%.

Day 5

Started the day around 35%. Made few calls and messages. Few colleagues played with the device looking at various functions. At the end of day battery is around 15%. Now it says ‘Connect your charger’. I’m going to drain the leftover by listening to music. My in depth review will start from tomorrow. Will catch up later, bye.