Those who've had it for awhile...

[Bujin#IM]

How's the battery life? (That's my main concern that would keep me from getting it)

 

[RonnyGunz]

My wife has one. With light/moderate usage, she's at about 40% by the end of the work day. This phone comes with two batteries for good reason, it would seem.

 

[davem2421]

the second battery is definitely a great addition to getting the echo it really helped me out this weekend when I forgot to put my echo on the charger I just swapped it and was good to go.

I also downloaded the free version of "Juice Defender" and that has really helped, I set it to balanced and got a full 11hrs of regular use (more on the moderate side) before putting it on the charger.

 

[jasonkc25]

Check out my posts over in XDA, it pretty much outlines my experience with battery life:

Just tried the New Sprint Echo - Don't Bother. - Page 3 - xda-developers

 

[maxbayes]

I think the battery life is really poor. In my "estimate" I lose about 1% of battery life per 2-3 minutes of usage with screen on/data.

Its great on standby/lighter use its not that bad. I've recently started using Tune-in to listen to radio, which is 3g with screen off, the drainage is not as fast, but I try to plug it in whenever I can

 

[davidnprogress]

Battery has been about what I expected and I am glad it came with the second one. This is certainly needed if out for the day and shooting pictures and video as I did this weekend. I am getting about the same time as I did with the standard EVO battery.

 

[jasonkc25]

I think the battery life is really poor. In my "estimate" I lose about 1% of battery life per 2-3 minutes of usage with screen on/data.

Its great on standby/lighter use its not that bad. I've recently started using Tune-in to listen to radio, which is 3g with screen off, the drainage is not as fast, but I try to plug it in whenever I can

If you calculate it, that equals about 3.3 to 5 hours of constant usage with the screens on. I don't think that is all that terrible really.

 

[LiuAnshan]

I'm perfectly happy with my battery life here. Listen to pandora almost all day and dual screen forum browse allot. I plug it in when I'm in my car to and from work though.

Sent from my M9300