does droid x have excellent battery life

[OBLAMA2009]

is it a lot better than droid incredible and would that be a reason to prefer droidx to incredible?

 

[Phobic9]

With the official Motorola extended battery, my Droid X can last over 24 hours with moderate usage. I normally tether it to my laptop so my GF can play Farmville at her place (she doesn't have internet). I did this yesterday for a couple of hours along with some texting, a couple of phone calls and updated my apps. I woke up this morning after not charging it to see I still had 15% battery life.

I'm sure there are extended batteries for the Incredible out now, but when I had the Incredible the battery life was truly abysmal.

 

[Chapbass]

I'm not sure what kind of usage type I would fall under, but I get a heavy volume of email on my phone (exchange) as well as a gmail account. I don't relaly game too much on it, but occasionally at night i do.

My phone typically lasts almost 24 hours, depending. I charge mine every night, and I don't remember a day when I ran out of battery life. I don't even think about it.

 

[notposting]

I use JuiceDefender...works pretty good. Have it on a 30 minute schedule (kills data for 30 minutes, on for 2, everything will pop on and refresh at that time). Along with a LV kernel it runs real good on my OG Droid. Go through the day with some relatively light emailing, texting, calling and browsing and be at 60-70% after 18 hours. I'm still fiddling with it every half hour at that point. I also have JD scheduled at night to kill the data....comes back on around 5 I think.

Worth a shot to check out JD...not sure what Sense does to battery life but make sure you have it optimized to your usage (check mail every half hour etc).

 

[Yuriman]

You can use Milestone Overclock to lower the voltage on the Droid X and vastly improve battery life. Play around with it until you can find the lowest operating voltage at given frequencies. It should work on any Ti OMAP based phone.

http://code.google.com/p/milestone-overclock/

Droid X already has excellent battery life, this makes it even better.

The Incredible has a Snapdragon processor, which is pretty equivalent to the OMAP 3630 in most ways.

 

[Phokus]

I think the droid x has like 8 or 9 hours of talk time, that's pretty damn good.

 

[vshah]

droid x has much better battery life than the incredible. 45nm cpu vs 65nm cpu

 

[jonny13]

I used to have the dInc and now have the Droid x. I start work at 7:30 and by the time I leave around 3:30, my Droid X has 70-80% battery left. Doing the same thing with the dInc would leave me between 30-40% battery left with the huge dInc extended battery. So, it's a huge difference. I've went a whole weekend with my X on wifi where I could barely get through a day on the dInc.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

It has a damn awesome battery life.

With the Liberty Rom, I can go over two days on a single charge with moderate usage.

It blew my mind how long it lasted. In one instance, even with heavy usage, my phone went from 9 am to 7pm and still had 70% battery life.

 

[abaez]

It has a damn awesome battery life.

With the Liberty Rom, I can go over two days on a single charge with moderate usage.

It blew my mind how long it lasted. In one instance, even with heavy usage, my phone went from 9 am to 7pm and still had 70% battery life.

Liberty 1.5 out.

 

[Binky]

I have both phones. There is no comparison. DroidX has MUCH better battery life than the Incredible. Some days it feels like twice the life. On average, I'd subjectively say that the battery life feels about 40% better.

The bad about the DX = hard buttons suck, its freakin huge, its got that odd hump on the top due to the camera, the screen quality is just terrible compared to the rich colors of the (AMOLED) Dinc, and it reboots occasionally for no apparent reason.

I like the DX better. I switch back and forth, but I use the DX significantly more.

 

[zerocool84]

The Droid X has the best battery life of any Android phone out there.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Compared to the incredible? Yeah.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3908/motorola-droid-2-review-rebooting-the-droid/10

shows that Android devices really suffer in web browsing... the stuff you do with smartphones, whereas in calls the Moto devices really stand out. So as a smartphone, Androids rip through batteries, but as a dumbphone? Yay. Throw that on top of Apple's antenna issues.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

wow sounds like droidx is definitely the preferrable phone, glad i asked this

 

[Strk]

wow sounds like droidx is definitely the preferrable phone, glad i asked this

Yeah, and even though the Droid X is bigger, because of how slim it is, to me anyways, it doesn't really feel any larger.

 

[cheezy321]

Compared to the incredible? Yeah.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3908/motorola-droid-2-review-rebooting-the-droid/10

shows that Android devices really suffer in web browsing... the stuff you do with smartphones, whereas in calls the Moto devices really stand out. So as a smartphone, Androids rip through batteries, but as a dumbphone? Yay. Throw that on top of Apple's antenna issues.

Wow i never saw that article on anandtech. Thanks for pointing it out, its pretty interesting.

 

[MrX8503]

When it comes to web browsing, the iPhone is king. When it comes to talk time, Droid X gets the crown.

 

[Phokus]

When it comes to web browsing, the iPhone is king. When it comes to talk time, Droid X gets the crown.

I don't even know how you can web browse with the iphone.

 

[kaerflog]

I don't even know how you can web browse with the iphone.

That got to be the most ignorant statement.
I have the HD2, Vibrant and IP4 with me and the IP4 is the best to browse the web.
The IP4 has something no other phone have 960x480 resolution.
Words are alot more legible even before zooming.

 

[Chapbass]

That got to be the most ignorant statement.
I have the HD2, Vibrant and IP4 with me and the IP4 is the best to browse the web.
The IP4 has something no other phone have 960x480 resolution.
Words are alot more legible even before zooming.

Ignorant? Try an opinion.

<- Droid X user, and I agree, browsing on the ip4 is okay, but definitely not as good as the DX.

 

[kaerflog]

Ignorant? Try an opinion.

<- Droid X user, and I agree, browsing on the ip4 is okay, but definitely not as good as the DX.

Thats fine, its your opinion.
My opinion is that the IP4 is best for web browsing and of course I have a 4.3" 4" and 3.5" to make that comaprision.

Take this simple test when you encounter other phones.
Load up ESPN full page.
Make sure the browser can fit the entire page in portrait mode.
On the right side where there is headline news in the white box.
Although the words are smaller on the IP4, I can actually read it.
On the Vibrant 4" screen, its not legible.
On the HD2 4.3" I can't get the entire page to fit and even with the page a little bit zoom in, the words aren't as legible as the IP4.

 

[foghorn67]

Thats fine, its your opinion.
My opinion is that the IP4 is best for web browsing and of course I have a 4.3" 4" and 3.5" to make that comaprision.

Take this simple test when you encounter other phones.
Load up ESPN full page.
Make sure the browser can fit the entire page in portrait mode.
On the right side where there is headline news in the white box.
Although the words are smaller on the IP4, I can actually read it.
On the Vibrant 4" screen, its not legible.
On the HD2 4.3" I can't get the entire page to fit and even with the page a little bit zoom in, the words aren't as legible as the IP4.

Opinion.

 

[Binky]

Thats fine, its your opinion.
My opinion is that the IP4 is best for web browsing and of course I have a 4.3" 4" and 3.5" to make that comaprision.

One page on a few phones with unspecified browsers doesn't prove anything.

 

[MrX8503]

Opinion.

I'm a web designer and the standard is 960px width. Google 960 grid system. The iPhone just so happens to have this resolution but in landscape mode.

2% of web traffic are from iOS users, so the experience can't be all that bad.