HOWEVER, I’m really glad you didn’t kill anyone while you were driving around, shooting video, playing with the phone. Basically you were doing everything BUT paying attention to driving. Don’t think you have any particular skill at driving/multi-tasking. You JUST GOT LUCKY.

It is no wonder states are adopting hands-free rules. Just not fast enough.

An iPod shuffle with its tiny battery can play MP3 for hours and hours, that shows you how little juice it needs to play MP3.

Try get on internet and browse something by Wifi. That will kill your battery quick.

For a real stress test do a video loop or at least for a more real life scenario turn on 3G or wifi which is what most people will have anyway. Then you will see the battery dies within 3 hours, and not as “awesome” as this “stress test” makes it out to be.

Install the app called battery left widget..

at first time install you will only get the accurate battery status from this app…but after 2 times recharge the battery status will soon change the status to accurate..and then you can find your exact battery performance.

I am very satisfied with this widget

I was really confused how I could leave the office with a full charge and get home to find the phone completely dead, switched off and refusing to start without being changed back up to 5%.

I ride a motorcycle and the tank bag the phone was put in is attached to the bike by, you guessed it, large magnets!

Take the amount of time you expect a phone to last, if you are talking on it. I don’t know any phones that can go for more than 3 or 4 hours on a call.

If you are using any internet-enabled features (like Pandora!) your phone is essentially ON A CALL. It is using the phone radio to communicate with the tower in exactly the same way – the only difference is it is sending data.

What I’m saying is you cannot expect any phone to play music from the internet for more than a few hours. Can’t use any feature that downloads any information from online for hours at a time because in terms of power use it’s like being on a call.

For others with low battery life, if you have low signal where you keep your phone, the phone will boost its antenna searching for the tower and trying to stay connected. That will drain phones quick too.

People asking about how to use / charge the battery: Lithium batteries work different. Draining a Li-ion battery all the way to empty is actually BAD for it. The battery will have the longest lifespan if it never gets really hot, gets topped off when it drains partway, and never goes totally empty. ALSO: a Li-ion battery loses capacity slowly over time. It’s just how they work chemically. It has nothing to do with how many times you charge it, only how long since the battery was made. Figures I read are around 15% to 20% loss (-ish) per year-ish.