What smartphone do you have?

[Robert Maxwell]

I have the same experience (I get my GMail on my phone before I do on the webclient).

What does that do for battery life? I know I have to keep my email checking on a schedule on my Centro, because it just zaps the battery if I let it push emails. I have both my GMail and my work account on it, so I get quite a bit of email--maybe 100 a day. On a busy day, my battery gets absolutely killed because of the constant pushing. So, I've throttled it back to only check every hour or so.

My battery life is excellent. If all I did was have it push email all day (and GMail chats), the battery would last a good 2 - 3 days before going kaput. And then of course on the Droid OS you can kill applications that are running in parallel if you don't want them eating up your battery (using a free app). This helps extend the battery life as well.

Thank you. I already know I'll have to keep wifi search mode turned off, since that apparently gobbles the battery like nobody's business. Not a big deal for me, anyway, since I'll be on a 3G (4G?) CDMA network at almost all times. Wifi usage will be minimal.

 

[Arrqh]

And then of course on the Droid OS you can kill applications that are running in parallel if you don't want them eating up your battery (using a free app). This helps extend the battery life as well.

There's actually a lot of discussion generated about app killing. The way Android handles multitasking, if an app is in the background and not running a persistent service it actually uses no CPU time. Android auto-closes these apps if it needs to free up memory for something else. Android's memory and app management is actually pretty efficient, and forceably closing apps that aren't actively using the CPU isn't always the best idea; sometimes its better to let the OS just do its thing.

 

[STR]

^Agreed. If an app is bugging out, kill it. Otherwise, let the OS do what it was designed to do. If you have an app that keeps resurrecting itself, uninstall it, as you don't want to encourage that kind of behavior from dev's.

 

[trekkiedane]

Wow, new firmware

Now I've got video in Skype and Google Talk (whatever I should do with that )

 

[Flavius]

We have been an iPhone users since day one.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

"We"? There's more than one Flavius?

 

[Flavius]

You're just poor, that's all.

 

[RAMA]

Blackberry Tour, love everything about it but the battery life.

RAMA