Motorola Droid X Battery Life Initial Impressions
There’s a new Droid in town and will run on the Verizon Wireless network and is just about ready to take up the Droid crown in the Android world, I’m on about the new Motorola Droid X smartphone of course, which is due to hit stores on the 15th of next month.
Chuong Nguyen, over on Pocket Now have got hold of a Motorola Droid X and have done some snooping on just how well the Motorola Droid X battery fairs when put up against the might of the original Motorola Droid.
The Motorola Droid X sports a hefty 1500mAh battery as opposed to the original’s 1400mAh, and apparently both Motorola and Verizon have stated that battery life should be comparable, and in Nguyen’s test with the two devices the Motorola Droid X comes out just about the same battery life or a tad more than the original.
The Motorola Droid X is positioned to take on the might of both the just released iPhone 4 and the first 4G enabled smartphone the HTC EVO 4G, whether it will surpass those rivals remains to be seen.
Comments
6 thoughts on “Motorola Droid X Battery Life Initial Impressions”
Saying "the Motorola Droid X comes out just about the same battery life or a tad more than the original" isn't very helpful. How many hours on standby? How many hours of talk time? How many hours of mixed use (talk & data)? Can the battery make it through a 12 hour day with normal use?
Wow, what a concept. You take away functionality (no 4G) and increase the battery size, lo and behold, the phone lasts longer than the pathetic EVO, which is almost identical in specs.
wow your a idiot 99.99999% of states and cities dont even offer the 4g network. i own the droid x and my friend owns the evo and the droid x surpasses the evo on battery in the same 3g settings. the evo is set up like the htc incredible which i own also and the battery life is horrable on that device also. do i get a full day out of my droid x with normal use and for me i text all day surf the web and talk on the phone no the battery last about 7 hours not bad concidering…..
"A idiot" hmm. you don't sound too smart either.
Performing a side-by-side comparison, with equivalent signal strengths, and the SAME applicaitons running would probably come close to a comparison. Maybe doing so for several days would reveal the differences. In my experience with android phones, the talk time is only a piece of what drains them down, whereas some combination of what is running and how weak the signal is seems to be a bigger factor in battery life. For instance, I can kill my CDMA 3G phone in less than 3 hours by getting in a place with 3 signal/service bars and browsing the web. Also, most smart-phones kill the display when talking, further saving the battery – but it drains a lot faster when you have the display on when web browsing, etc.
I just switched from the Storm to the Droid X and am a disappointed with the battery life until I downloaded the app killer software it was about 1-1/2hrs. and now its only a little better I probably get about 2-1/2 to 3 hrs. I mostly use it for talking about 75% of the time, I have to connect to the charger at least 3x a day!