When did the Google Android phone become the Droid? Guess I'm not cool enough to keep up with the lingo.
Whatever. PCWorld ran an article by Tony Bradley on the battery life of the new Droid from Motorola running on the Verizon network. He says that PC World senior editor Robert Strohmeyer braved the lines at the Verizon store, took one home, charged it up and went to work. It died before he got home. He says it never keeps a charge past 7PM.
The problem seems to be for heavy users who tap so many of those neat apps available. With some people using smartphones instead of PCs, this could be a problem.
However, Rob Jackson at the fan site Phandroid put it through his own test, using a lot of power:
"I turned the phone on 100% brightness, set the screen to “Never Sleep”, loading a bundle of MP3s on my SD Card and opened the media player to “Play All” with “Repeat All Songs”. I also used Google Navigation for an hour… WHILE the music was still playing and phone was on full brightness."
It lasted 7 hours and one minute. He says that's really good. I'm not a power-sucking user, so I don't know. I guess it depends on what you're used to.
