Battery 1350 is enough??

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My major concern is battery.
What do you think about this 1350 battery on this big, large screen... we will have the same problem of the diamond?? Will we reach to dinner??

Its a good question and one that will be difficult to answer until we get to use it, but if I had to guess I would say it will not be strong enough, but again it would depend on how you use the device. HSDPA and push email can really tax the battery add to that music and videos and of course web surfing and you would need a huge battery to last the day. I think with all these devices battery life will always be a problem.

its actually quite a easy question to answer, the HD will suck more power, it will drain a battery with "average" usage around two hours quicker than the Touch Pro, this by an large is due to the fact that the screen is around 30% larger, which obviously means that its backlight will be larger, the rest of the hardware is essentially the same, its going to suck.

Cracking phone i agree, but there is physically no way it will be better than a Pro, and will infact be significantly worse due to 30% more power usage on the screen alone.

extended battery will more than likely be a must, even if its just for emergencies

anyone know if its the SAME battery as the pro?

The PRO is Mah 1340...

Originally Posted by dazza9075

its actually quite a easy question to answer, the HD will suck more power, it will drain a battery with "average" usage around two hours quicker than the Touch Pro, this by an large is due to the fact that the screen is around 30% larger, which obviously means that its backlight will be larger, the rest of the hardware is essentially the same, its going to suck.

Cracking phone i agree, but there is physically no way it will be better than a Pro, and will infact be significantly worse due to 30% more power usage on the screen alone.

extended battery will more than likely be a must, even if its just for emergencies

actually, noone can say that at the moment. the kind of battery used in a device doesn't say how long it will be able to operate (ofcourse, a more powerfull battery is always stronger). Software is very very importand. just look at the diamond. it has a better or equal battery than some other phones with same kind of specs. but still drains battery life like nothing.
improving the software can make a huge differents and it could even be possible that the battery life of the HD is better than that of the Touch pro.
Oh, before i forget. some german reviews allready stated, that the battery life seems to be quiet good and that they were pretty surprised when they found out that the screen light doesn't need much power.

the 1340 refers to the maximum amount of power available on one charge, in this case its the same as the touch pro, doesnt matter what type of battery it is, (although admitidly some batteries are designed for high current, some for low current high duration)

anyhow, the average current draw is specified by HTC, so yes software tweaks can helps this but its important to note that it wont be an average if you do, as features will be disabled or reduced in performance.

its also important to not that those stame tweaks that have helped the Pro would be the same tweaks used on teh HD since its essentially the same phone, but applying the tweaks to BOTH phones will still give you a significant difference against the HD, and that difference will be for the most part the increase in power consumption needed to power a 30% larger screen.

The only way the HD can be better than the Pro or equal at the very least is if it has a bigger battery

Originally Posted by dazza9075

the 1340 refers to the maximum amount of power available on one charge, in this case its the same as the touch pro, doesnt matter what type of battery it is, (although admitidly some batteries are designed for high current, some for low current high duration)

anyhow, the average current draw is specified by HTC, so yes software tweaks can helps this but its important to note that it wont be an average if you do, as features will be disabled or reduced in performance.

its also important to not that those stame tweaks that have helped the Pro would be the same tweaks used on teh HD since its essentially the same phone, but applying the tweaks to BOTH phones will still give you a significant difference against the HD, and that difference will be for the most part the increase in power consumption needed to power a 30% larger screen.

The only way the HD can be better than the Pro or equal at the very least is if it has a bigger battery

Hmmm i'm not sure if you guys are missing the point. sure the display takes a good bit of power but its the processor thats the juicy bit. HTC have said that they have spent a fair amount of time tweaking the processor in the HD to make it more efficient. Sure its the same processor as the touch pro but different firmware software etc. Only time wil tell but its unlikely they're going to ruin a superb device by using underspec componants.

if they have changed the CPU then you maybe right, there is nothing to have stopped them i suppose, but i would still imagin that the back light is the most significant power drawing function bar some wireless connections that is.

Originally Posted by dazza9075

the 1340 refers to the maximum amount of power available on one charge, in this case its the same as the touch pro, doesnt matter what type of battery it is, (although admitidly some batteries are designed for high current, some for low current high duration)

anyhow, the average current draw is specified by HTC, so yes software tweaks can helps this but its important to note that it wont be an average if you do, as features will be disabled or reduced in performance.

its also important to not that those stame tweaks that have helped the Pro would be the same tweaks used on teh HD since its essentially the same phone, but applying the tweaks to BOTH phones will still give you a significant difference against the HD, and that difference will be for the most part the increase in power consumption needed to power a 30% larger screen.

The only way the HD can be better than the Pro or equal at the very least is if it has a bigger battery

you are right, but on the other hand we don't know what changes have been made on the software. Like Touchflow3d beeing much faster than before, even if its the same specs. You cand take a 900 battery and it cann run longer than a 1340 battery if you do it right with the software. Ofcourse, we can compare the HD to the Diamond or the touch pro, as they have got the same OS and the same Interface. But tweaks in this siystem can reduce the power consumption allot, and i am not talking about thos tweak we, as users can do. The easiest way to find out will be to compare the standby times for example. when the display is off. Or when tweaks to the chips are made which enhace the battery life when connected to UMTS or other things. (such tweaks happpend to many phones, and sometimes meant an increase of around 50-60 percent of battery life!!) Its true that a bigger screen normaly means hiigher power consumption, but most of the power drained comes from the backlight. And even here you can do much.

I hope the things reviewers and testers said so far were right. like the backlight surprisingly using just a glimps of power and the good battery life. they also stated that HTC made improvements to their chipset and thats one of the reasons why its faster and even runs longer with UMTS than with GSM
Could be that its not, but i hope for the best.

ps: on the other hand, i have got an Lg Viewty here. It is a phone, which is said to have a pretty bad battery life, lasting for less than two days with normal usage, and less with heavy one. Strangely i get a battery life of around a week on normal usage and 3 days with heavy use. (normal means: checking mails at least 2 -3 times a day with HSDPA, doing quick surfing on the net and writing around 5 sms a day and answering call and so on..)