Techno-guy
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I think I'd be upset about the battery life of this phone if it was much worse than my expectations and it didn't provide so many ways to charge the device, one of which will charge it extremely fast. If I can get through a 9 hour work day with moderate to heavy usage, make it home to charge for 20 minutes, and have enough to last me the rest of the night, I'm more than okay with that. If my usage doesn't require me to charge it for that brief period, then that's fine, too.
Don't disagree entirely with you. Problem is, my S6 edge has zero chance of making it through a 9 hour work day. I'm burning about 5% per hour just in Standby on WiFi (my iPhone 6 Plus was 0-1% in the same conditions) and another 20% per hour or more actually using the phone. It can be as high as 30% per hour under use. I can unplug at 8:30am and be at 50% by noon and completely depleted by 3pm and worrying about my battery life the entire time.
The battery life is horrendous on the S6. I do think there may be a T-Mobile component to this since the Cell Standby seems to be taking up huge amounts of battery and WiFi is draining it like mad so hopefully it's fixable (and soon) but as it stands now, it is like me going back to the early LTE days where you were ruled by battery life.
Maybe I've been spoiled with my last few phones but my BB Z30 had great battery life and the Lumia 1520 and iPhone 6 Plus have been absolutely phenomenal (almost no drain on standby and extremely efficient screen on) so as someone coming back to Android after a while, it seems I'm in a battery depletion time warp that I left a few years ago constantly worrying about and checking my battery life.