Thunderbolt Review (Coming Soon)

[Jaymil]

Ugghh. I hate extended batteries that add bulk to the phone. I rock the extended battery on my droid x and its great. Barely noticable. A co worker has the extended battery on his evo though and its hideous. Reminds me of a phone I'd carry 10 years ago.

 

[FrankXS]

BMX said there would be a toggle so I have to assume its in there somewhere.

Yeah, he said that some of the pre-production phones had the toggle and some didn't. But that the retail phone would have one. We'll see.

-Frank

 

[Jtron]

I'm not sure I would need an extended life battery. I have a charger at home, in my car and at my desk @ work. Hopefully I'll be covered. $50 for 2750 mAh isn't too bad though.

 

[Air Force One]

When I buy extended batteries that are large enough to require another back, I prefer OEM. I've been burnt in the past with batteries that were okay but backs that were poor-quality and poor-fitting.

-Frank

Yeah I agree. The Mugen was great tho. The back fits perfect and has that rubberized feel tnat the OEM has. That Seido extended battery sucked for exactly the reason you say: the back was crap and didn't seat perfectly and allowed dust in and would get hung up sometimes when pulling out of my pocket.

 

[FrankXS]

I'm not sure I would need an extended life battery. I have a charger at home, in my car and at my desk @ work. Hopefully I'll be covered. $50 for 2750 mAh isn't too bad though.

I have a feeling that those 2750mAh HTC batteries will not be available right away. I've also got a feeling that they won't be $50 when they become available. The HTC site doesn't even have them available yet. And... they are $69 I think. The site I pre-ordered the HTC 2750 from (mobilecity.com) doesn't have them yet either (hence "pre-order") but they're selling them for $54, no tax and free shipping.

-Frank

 

[Jaymil]

I'm not sure I would need an extended life battery. I have a charger at home, in my car and at my desk @ work. Hopefully I'll be covered. $50 for 2750 mAh isn't too bad though.

Yeah I'm hoping that's enough for me too. I use the car charger on the way to/from work and during lunch and I have a charger at work too. I may have to reclaim it though. Now that I've gotten everyone at work to get android phones its kinda become the community charger.

 

[mfuld]

it's probably too early to tell, but any indication as to whether we'll have to bump charge the battery?

 

[paulmike3]

Yeah, he said that some of the pre-production phones had the toggle and some didn't. But that the retail phone would have one. We'll see.

-Frank

Good point. We don't know if the review device from the OP has the shipping firmware. My guess is no. I recall other phone releases where the OS revisions were out of date on the review units.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Back on topic please. If you wanna talk about extended batteries we have a section for that.

 

[rotorocker]

I like that the 1600mah by seidio has an oem fit, but thats barely an upgrade over stock. I wish they would make some kind of compromise to like a 1900 or 2000 that still fit like oem. I would never order one of those huge backs.

 

[rubytuesday007]

Good point. We don't know if the review device from the OP has the shipping firmware. My guess is no. I recall other phone releases where the OS revisions were out of date on the review units.

I can't say if the version I got is final, although Verizon got these this morning so I am guessing it is final. Perhaps a firmware upgrade on Thursday?

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk

 

[reb422]

Rubytuesday... what do you think of the Bolt overall so far??? Now that you've had a little time to play with it, would you buy the Bolt or are you one of those that would wait to see what the Bionic is all about?

 

[SUB-dawg]

Rubytuesday... what do you think of the Bolt overall so far??? Now that you've had a little time to play with it, would you buy the Bolt or are you one of those that would wait to see what the Bionic is all about?

+1, what do you think of it?

 

[apascual89]

What's your blog?

 

[paulmike3]

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk

Well, that's a first in this forum. Congrats!

 

[panicprone77]

Link to your blog would be awesome. How is the camera so far? Better than others or about the same?

 

[rubytuesday007]

+1, what do you think of it?

Overall I really love it. However, a bit disappointed at the battery. Hopefully tomorrow I will give it real world use and be able to more comment more after tweaking for better battery life. Stay tuned.

 

[tekhna]

Overall I really love it. However, a bit disappointed at the battery. Hopefully tomorrow I will give it real world use and be able to more comment more after tweaking for better battery life. Stay tuned.

Ugh, that's going to break this phone. *******it.

 

[Koato]

I'm horrified of the battery life that I am most likely going to have to deal with on this phone... coming from using a LG Voyager that will last about 3 months on a charge.

Less battery life = frequent charging that will result in a ruined battery?

 

[whiteshadow001]

Well the way I look at it my Droid 2 won't last me a whole day anyways so battery life isnt anything big to me haha