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> It lasted between 1-2 hours on a full charge That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone. What model was it? There is no way a phone like this wou

> It lasted between 1-2 hours on a full charge That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone. What model was it? There is no way a phone like this would be sold.

grandalf 11y ago
> That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone. Neither. The phone was an HTC Evo 4G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G Link describing the horrible battery life: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17... I had the phone fully charged, used it to navigate by car from SF to a place in Mountain View, checked email a few times from Mountain View, and the phone was completely dead for the ride back. If a single person at HTC or Google had tried to use this phone for any kind of normal utilization, I think it's quite likely it would not have been launched. If I'd purchased the phone instead of getting it as a giveaway, I would surely have been irate. As it was, I sold it to someone via CraigsList for a few hundred bucks. This is why I predict Apple will continue to dominate. Android and the Android ecosystem still have many of these same kind of lapses and warts. My Nexus 7 is very greedy on battery and does not go into any kind of hibernation, which means that if I forget to charge it, it's dead after two days with no use at all.
- wingerlang 11y ago
  I see, still seems like something was way off with the specific mode. It also mentions that an update increased the battery life - although not by how much.
  - grandalf 11y ago
    > something was way off with the specific model It seems odd that nobody would have done real world testing of the device. > an update increased the battery life Perhaps, though since it was not a google phone, it was likely at least a year until any software updates were available.

> It lasted between 1-2 hours on a full charge That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone. What model was it? There is no way a phone like this would be sold.

grandalf 11y ago

> That sounds like a huge exaggeration or a broken phone. Neither. The phone was an HTC Evo 4G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G Link describing the horrible battery life: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17... I had the phone fully charged, used it to navigate by car from SF to a place in Mountain View, checked email a few times from Mountain View, and the phone was completely dead for the ride back. If a single person at HTC or Google had tried to use this phone for any kind of normal utilization, I think it's quite likely it would not have been launched. If I'd purchased the phone instead of getting it as a giveaway, I would surely have been irate. As it was, I sold it to someone via CraigsList for a few hundred bucks. This is why I predict Apple will continue to dominate. Android and the Android ecosystem still have many of these same kind of lapses and warts. My Nexus 7 is very greedy on battery and does not go into any kind of hibernation, which means that if I forget to charge it, it's dead after two days with no use at all.

wingerlang 11y ago
I see, still seems like something was way off with the specific mode. It also mentions that an update increased the battery life - although not by how much.
- grandalf 11y ago
  > something was way off with the specific model It seems odd that nobody would have done real world testing of the device. > an update increased the battery life Perhaps, though since it was not a google phone, it was likely at least a year until any software updates were available.