Concerned New Owner

[Even4steven]

I have owned several tablets, starting with the XOOM. I love the Note 8, but I am concerned about the battery life. Yes, it has only been 4 days, and I understand it has to cycle, I am just asking if others have had sub-par battery life to start, and did it get better?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Golfdriver97]

Could you post screenshots of the battery stats and graph?

Sent from a Slim 4.3 S3

 

[William Heymann]

I use mine for taking notes in class every day. I drain about 10% battery usage per hour taking notes and also doing some light surfing. While taking notes I do things like use wolfram alpha, some class websites and things like wikipedia and copy and paste things out of them to supplement notes.

I have had mine for about two months or so now and have not had any problems.

 

[festinator]

I use mine for taking notes in class every day. I drain about 10% battery usage per hour taking notes and also doing some light surfing. While taking notes I do things like use wolfram alpha, some class websites and things like wikipedia and copy and paste things out of them to supplement notes.

I have had mine for about two months or so now and have not had any problems.

That's decent battery life isn't it? 10% per 45 min to an hour of screen on time? Or maybe its not?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using AC Forums mobile app

 

[gemniii]

Without any numbers of usage it's impossible to tell what your idea of "sub-par" is.

 

[Haalcyon]

I have a Note 8.0 as well and I can agree battery could be better. Several reviews noted this as well as I recall, but its still a great and versatile product to me.

from my Sony Xperia Tablet Z or XTZ or "Ecstasy"

 

[Gdwheel]

Battery life is its weakest point. Most tablets are considerably better.

 

[William Heymann]

It seems pretty good to me. It is definitely good enough for my needs.

Battery life has never been a problem for me so I don't worry about it.

 

[Even4steven]

Thanks for all of the responses. Coming over from an iPad 2, I guess I got a little spoiled with battery life on a tablet. I did go back and reread more reviews, and in my haste to get a new tablet I guess I did not look at the battery life closely enough. My battery life matches up well with expectations from the reviewers. No matter, I really like the tablet and it's capabilities.

 

[Haalcyon]

It seems pretty good to me. It is definitely good enough for my needs.

Battery life has never been a problem for me so I don't worry about it.

I have to agree. While battery life may be shorter than other tablets I've used its not so short that I feel something's amiss. I still get a good amount of time of heavy heavy use with LTE on.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I have to agree. While battery life may be shorter than other tablets I've used its not so short that I feel something's amiss. I still get a good amount of time of heavy heavy use with LTE on.

The LTE may be hurting some of your battery life too.

Sent from a Slim 4.3 S3

 

[philmair]

You guys must have been spoiled in the past if you think the Note 8.0 has a poor battery life. I've owned several tablets in the past (Droid and Blackberry Playbook) and my son has a iPAD (it's just a toy), and the Note battery is definitely better than any of those.

I use S Notes constantly throughout the day, check emails and do a fair amount of browsing ... I can easily get 2 days out of it (but I tend to plug it in overnight anyway) .. which is fine for me. I can't see any problem in charging tablets, phones and other gadgets overnight ... you just need to get into the habit.

 

[Even4steven]

After the first few days my battery life has increased, and my concern has decreased. That being said, I am always in favor of better battery life.