Comments on: Palm Pre battery life revealed – 5 hour talk-time!

By: anders

anders — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:06:32 +0000

battery is a joke. Lasts 5 hours when the phone is not in use at all, then is dead. This is with no phone conversations, no IM, no email, no nothing. Don’t buy one until they get the battery issue fixed. The store finally gave me an extra battery for free so I would go away without cursing at them…..

Otherwise a great phone

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:37:58 +0000

As a matter of fact here is a link to the up comming battery.

http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/bacy26pmpre-bk.htm

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:33:06 +0000

i’m sure you can buy an extended battery for the Pre. and just like someone else said atleast on the Pre you can change the battery. unlike the iphone. i have the same problem with mine but while at my desk are in my truck on the way to a job i put it on charge, and the phone will last all day. No big problem when you look at what the phone can do.

By: Palm Pre Kinda Lover

Palm Pre Kinda Lover — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:34:51 +0000

my battery is crap on my palm pre … ilove everything else about it other than the battery life – I just down loaded 3 game applications, my battery was on full – I just got an alert I only have 9%, what tha??? and when I am talking I notice I might get 2 hours of talk time, what is the point of having a cell phone if you can use the phone, especially in an emergency, horrible ;o(

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Will Park — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:20:13 +0000

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:09:49 +0000

I had purchased the palm pre and am regretting that decison. The battery won’t even last a day. I would be lucky to have it last 2 hours seriously. I even went to the store and was given a new phone and the same thing. Whoever designed this phone did not do a good job, I have also heard I am not the only one with this compliant regarding this phone what a huge disapointment. You would think someone would make sure the battery could mantain normal use before you release the phone.

By: Billy Batson

Billy Batson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:57:30 +0000

Martin you sound like an Iphone fanboi trolling and crapping on other phones I have an iphone and if you do too,when was the last time you honestly got that long of a talk time out of it or anywhere close? NEVER and I woudn’t expect a fanboi to be hones tin the first place. I will be making the switch!!!

By: me

me — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:27 +0000

honeybee,
look on the best buy web page, just type in palm pre and it says it on there

By: mike

mike — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:09:14 +0000

Mart said: “Let’s just wait and see how long the Pre lasts in the real world once you have a few apps stealing power multitasking in the background before we start celebrating the Pre’s supremacy shall we?”

How long can the iPhone battery last whilst multitasking a few apps? Oh right, it can’t do it at all (unless you buy Steve Jobs silly spin on it). Thus, invalid comparison.

Hey, how much does it cost to replace the battery in the iPhone? Oh yeah…it can’t do that either.

By: honeybee

honeybee — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:18:03 +0000

5 hours? in what page in the pdf document?

where do you actually get the picture from?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:01:02 +0000

Talk time test numbers are without meaning on smartphones. They are done by making a single call with screen off, wifi off, bluetooth off, gps off, EVDO off, processor doing zero work, and all other functions and radios (Pre has five: 1x voice, evdo, GPS, Bluetooth, wifi) off. There is certainly zero email polling.
Pre has a paltry battery, they have gone the cheap route by using the centro’s old style battery with a mere 1150 mAh. By contrast their more powerful professional oriented Treo Pro has a 1500 mAh battery.
The screens on these smartphones draw more than the voice communications. I would be very surprised if the charge lasts a full 8 hour business day under normal business use.

By: Martin hill

Martin hill — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:18:54 +0000

Umm, the iPhone 3G has a rated 3G talktime of 5hrs and also gets 10hrs with 3G turned off. In fact PC World’s Test Centre found it lasted for 5hrs 38 minutes in real world tests.

Let’s just wait and see how long the Pre lasts in the real world once you have a few apps stealing power multitasking in the background before we start celebrating the Pre’s supremacy shall we?

-Mart