I'm not playing team sports. If a manufacturer makes a claim, it better be true. It also better not have fine print and a bunch of crap.
Or what? You'll scream? Stomp your feet? What exactly are you trying to demand here?
1) Not everyone cares for carrying an extra battery. I for one don't want that extra bulk.
This is typical silliness from you. It's like me claiming that the charge cable you have to have at work and in your car is 'extra bulk'. You always exaggerate everything in order to try and make a silly point. There's no 'extra bulk' to keeping an extra battery/charger around wherever you happen to be, any more than there is needing to keep a charge cable. One merely allows you to swap and go and use the phone the way it was meant to be, the other requires the phone be tethered to a location for however long it takes to charge and is much less convenient. Other than that, they're simply variations on exactly the same thing. (As well as the swappable battery not negating the ability to utilize the exact same cable/charge if so desired as well)
2) I do have an extra battery but I use it only on vacation. I expect my phone (and I'm sure many others will agree here) to last the day.
One doesn't negate the other. Again, you set up a false premise (swappable batter has anything to do with battery life) then run with it.
3) Interchangeable batteries are a prime example of BS specs. 3500 mAh in the size of the stock battery! I'm sure you will buy one of those and expect 60% more charge than your stock battery.
More ignorance. It's easy to get a higher quality extended battery that offers significant performance over the stock. Usually it'll require a third party battery door to accomodate. I had one in my Droid X that was only slightly bulkier than the stock, yet held a charge easily for 3 days of use. Of course, the high quality ones aren not going to cost $5 like the cheap ones, more like $30, 40 or more.
We have learned here not to believe such BS claims. I don't agree with BS specs and while many excuse it as "Typical behavior by Chinese manufacturers," I'm sure we don't lump Samsung and HTC in the same group as Chinese battery manufacturers who make exploding cells.
All of the things people are yammering on about here are manufactured in China, including the battery and most of the parts in anyone's iPhone. Being made in China has dick to do with squat.
There is downtime and that is the time it takes for you to power off, swap. It's not zero downtime.
LOL! Classic Delirum and your endless exaggerations. Like a minute or two max (during which time the phone is still pick-up-and-go ready) is really 'downtime' compared to however long you have to leave your iPhone charging.
But you did not address the primary concern that I and other readers have as to whether the 720 hour standby figure means anything.
I addressed it right off. It's 100% meaningless. I don't give a squat if someone also claims it has 7200 hours or 72000 hours of standby time. It all means exactly SQUAT.
The phone has excellent standby time during real world use, and that's all I care about, and all anyone else should be concerned with. YES, Samsung, Apple and every other company exaggerate their positives because they're engaged in cheerleading for their own teams, just like you exaggerate the negatives of things.
If specs are not to be trusted, then what is the point of specs? No one needs or YOU don't need?
Battery specs are hard to pin down because everyone uses their phones differently. I'd say it's perfectly true that NO ONE (no, not even the manufacturer) can give you an exact figure of how long you will have a cell phone last... except for YOU after you've used it to your liking a few times. That's pretty much it. So the manufacturers will exaggerate using some lab-produced result that was the absolute maximum possible (and so long as it was actually possible, even under lab conditions) I'm fairly sure then to state it is legal. Meanwhile most people know that real world use will be something else entirely.
Maybe a better use of time is to go and prove, beyond all doubt, that even under some lab-conditions it's completely impossible for the SGS3 to do 720 hours of standby. I haven't seen anyone disprove it. But that's what it would be on someone to do before they start whining about the Federal Govt. stepping in or other such nonsense.
You don't turn on your data connection? Well for most smartphone users they leave that on.
If I don't need it, of course not. It's no hardship to toggle it on or off. If I'm using wifi, then why would I leave the mobile data on? Ditto: bluetooth, GPS, Sync etc. (In fact, I'm not even sure what the Sync toggle on my SGG3 even does.) Methinks "most smartphone users" leave "that on" and then complain about their "terrible battery life."
Android syncs plenty of things. The basic starting point is GMail and Play Store, but social networking apps like Twitter and Facebook sync. So does Google+, Google Talk, etc. There's plenty of syncing. All of this syncing uses a LOT more battery life than a push notifications only setup like iOS.
So yes, unless you cripple your phone like you do (how do you get alerted of emails, or tweets unless you're at home or work with wifi?), I don't see how an average user would get superb battery life unless they go in and tweak things.
I seem to recall having this same 'argument' before with people that can't seem to grasp that many of us don't have the need for constant mobile data, and that we're almost always connected to a wifi network, unless in the car (then mobile data is on) or out and about. (ditto).
When my phone's screen is on: it's always connected. When I'm out and about, it's always connected. When I'm at home or at work doing whatever and the phone isn't in my hand, but just laying on a desk, then wifi is connected or it's off if the phone is asleep. I don't need the Play Store to update my apps at that time. (I don't use or need any of the rest of what you listed.)
So long as I can get phone calls and texts great. Truly important emails (such as from work and important clients) I set up to alert me via SMS so I don't need my email client constantly using data updating either.)
Also, all of this is based on YET ANOTHER false premise that you've floated and run with. The idea that the SGS3 has terrible battery life if people simply leave these things on and don't jump through hoops setting apps. That's simply not true- the SGS3 has excellent battery life for most people's usage, and I've seen no evidence that anyone had to particularly jump through hoops to achieve it.
It's pretty obvious any time there's a issue with Android or Samsung, you come to the rescue and you either bat the issue down and start insulting those who discuss the issue. But when it comes to anything Apple, you'll feel free to scream as loudly as you can. Perhaps I should find all your posts about gripes, complaints, issues with Apple iOS and accuse you of making a big deal of things. Is that productive? I think not.
It's pretty obvious any time there's a issue with Android or Samsung, you'll feel free to scream as loudly as you can. But when it comes to anything Apple, you come to the rescue and you either bat the issue down and start insulting those who discuss the issue. Perhaps I should find all your posts about gripes, complaints, issues with Android/Samsung and accuse you of making a big deal of things. Is that productive? I think not.
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