Mobile Madness

1.6 is nice and snappy. It also seems to have better battery life, although I can't really tell whether it's 2.0 or Motorola's hardware that causes Droid owners to have more battery life problems than G1 owners.

The multi-tasking can kill your battery. You ought to use a task killer that automatically kills certain background tasks to reduce the wear on your battery.

My Incredible seems to be doing alright. It's holding up at least as well as my iPhone.

From what I've read, the tasks that kill your battery the most are the ones that are irresponsible about how efficiently they use the various phone resources (radios etc).

maybe the running a multitasking operating system on a machine running off a tiny tiny battery maybe wasn't the brightest design decision in the first place.
Let them reap what they sow.

Not to worry: soon you won't be able to buy a phone with a simple operating system anymore, so no one will know the difference. (See also: "progress")

It's kinda funny. I recently played the "Tron 2.0" computer game and one of the levels in the game has you inside a mobile phone. Your mission is to turn on all the features of the phone to run down the battery and force the OS to give you needed information.

So if all the apps on your phone start turning on all by themselves, you may be taking part in an epic computer-revolution story.
Tron Binder

life imitates fart.

My battery life has been sucking but I expected that, so I already ordered one of those double sized batteries with a replacement back for the phone.
2300 MAh vs the stock 1100, should help. They have batteries with even more capacity, a LOT more.. but they seem too good to be true so I gave them a miss. What I don't understand is.. if you put a bigger back on the phone, there is a whole bunch of extra space all across the phone. So instead of just making the battery bigger in one dimension, why not have part of the battery that fits in the original spot, and then behind that, expands out in the other two dimension to give you tons more battery...

I'd like to have the extend-o-battery but then the phone wouldn't fit in my pocket anymore.

Get a bigger pocket.

I think I switched batteries with my girlfriend.. I borrowed her SIM card so that I would be able to associate my phone with my google account.. before I had it activated. And so I had the back off both phones (She has a G1 too).
Anyway my battery life sucks. I can't wait for my new battery.

And she's got an older G1 with a battery that might be worn down a bit?

I guess with smartphones you have to get into the habit of daily charging.
I used to go for half a week with my RAZR without putting it on charge. Is it true that with modern batteries you don't really worry about the memory effect anymore? That was just ni-cd batteries, right?

You don't have to worry about memory, once you have fully charged/discharged a few times. But you do lose life from charge cycles. As far as my battery problem it turns out that the battery I ended up with was one my gf had been struggling with for a while. We had another battery from her original broken G1 which worked fine, so we are all good with battery for now. And I am waiting for the double sized battery in the mail.

Well, it really depends. It's no different from laptop batteries.. sometimes they last really well, sometimes they die way before their time. Most are somewhere in between. But if you are a heavy user and you are constantly recharging your phone just to keep it topped off, you are going to lose your battery sooner.

I was having a moment:
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/My-Verizon-Account-Residential/Why-is-everything-so-broken/td-p/201627

*chuckle*

Not my best, but it was off the cuff.

Apparently one of my best rants was my going away letter to AT&T. People still comment to me about it.

Are there any left? We turned off our dialup nine years ago, and even then, nobody missed it. Modems are pretty much a defunct technology at this point -- even more so now that everyone's starting to get mobile Internet connections.