Motorola Q Battery Life and Pearl Crashes
The Motorola Q running Windows Mobile Smartphone (not to be confused with Phone Edition) so far has been an ok device. The form factor is slightly wide, and the battery life is much too short. I can get almost a day of battery life out of the device when using the extended thick battery (1650mah if I remember correctly).
Usage of the device is reading/replying to emails with ActiveSync DirectPush running (latest firmeware). This is talking on the device for a total of 20-30 minutes and emails read/checked/replied about every 30 minutes or so.
If I use the device to stream music across EvDO, you can physically feel the device getting warm and the battery getting warm.
Also, the Moto Q takes LONG time to charger either the standard thin battery or the extended thick battery. Seems like it takes at least 2-3 hours to reach 50-70% and about 4-5 hours to fully charge. The BlackBerry 8100 Pearl seems to take about an hour to reach 80 % and then maybe another 30 minutes to hour after to fully charge and same with the HTC Wizard aka Cingular 8125.
On a Pearl note, the device seems to be crashing more lately. It will recover, but you never know. the IM application that it comes with and GTalk seem to crash the most. This could be due to Calendar Sync as well. I also think it has to partly to do with the spotty coverage of TMobile in my usage area.
Usage of the device is reading/replying to emails with ActiveSync DirectPush running (latest firmeware). This is talking on the device for a total of 20-30 minutes and emails read/checked/replied about every 30 minutes or so.
If I use the device to stream music across EvDO, you can physically feel the device getting warm and the battery getting warm.
Also, the Moto Q takes LONG time to charger either the standard thin battery or the extended thick battery. Seems like it takes at least 2-3 hours to reach 50-70% and about 4-5 hours to fully charge. The BlackBerry 8100 Pearl seems to take about an hour to reach 80 % and then maybe another 30 minutes to hour after to fully charge and same with the HTC Wizard aka Cingular 8125.
On a Pearl note, the device seems to be crashing more lately. It will recover, but you never know. the IM application that it comes with and GTalk seem to crash the most. This could be due to Calendar Sync as well. I also think it has to partly to do with the spotty coverage of TMobile in my usage area.
posted by vmok00 at 6:25 PM
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