iphone 5 has less than a 1500mah battery and still gets awesome battery life with LTE..
my point in mentioning this, is its not neccessarily the mah that matters, its how the phone consumes it. CNET's review and a few other peoples personal posts who've had the phone for a little while all say that battery life is pretty good and some say better than S3.
The iPhone 5 is a 4" screen and Apple doesn't have a reputation of poor battery life like HTC. The GS3 allows you to carry a spare battery or replace the stock battery with one in excess of 3500 mAh.
I doubt if the DNA battery life will be horrible but I want great battery life. With that screen and camera I don't want to have to cripple features to make it through the day.
A moderate to heavy user will have to ration use of this phone because you don't have OPTIONS.
I have a Thunderbolt which is not an efficient phone battery wise. I am a moderate to heavy user so I exercised the option of getting an extended battery so I wouldn't have to ration my use or turn all of the features of the phone down. Some other T-Bolt users opt to carry a replacement battery and others turn everything down and cripple their phones. But there are options.
The DNA limits your options.
If you are a heavy user you may not be able to watch a couple of movies on a long flight, browse the web or stream music all day.
The same is true with on-board storage.
We all know that the cloud is becoming more and more prevalent but I want options. I don't want to be forced to use cloud storage.
I like being able to carry a large library or music, pictures, movie clips and films on my sd card.
Both of my sons swim and I am able to record their events and keep them on my phone. Those 30 second to 2 minute races take a lot of space on my phone but are not a concern because of the 64gb card in the sd slot. I have options.
If you are a low to moderate user this phone is great.
Or if you are willing to carry external usb drives and move data between your cloud and the DNA then you are fine.
You can also turn down the brightness, try to stay on wifi, limit your updates, syncs and screen time to extend battery life EVERYDAY.
But I want a powerful, full featured smartphone that I can use to it's full capabilities.
I to want watch my cable tv from home through my SlingBox on that big pretty 5" screen. But could I make it through one NFL game?
I don't think the medium sized, non-replaceable battery and limited on board data storage allow me to do that with the DNA.