I'm exactly the same (normally wanting to change my phone every 5 minutes) ... iPhone 3G contract expired in December after 18 months, and I chose to switch to the £20 tariff as there's no other handset I'd prefer.

As an aside, was reading this morning that the £20 tariff isn't widely known about (isn't advertised and even a lot of O2 staff in the stores don't know about it!) ... I only found out about it when I tried to switch to a regular Simplicity tariff and the woman in Carphone Warehouse couldn't add the internet bundle so told me to call O2 to add it... it was only when I called I was told about it.

 

Purely a retention (desperation) tariff that can be got (and more) for £15/Month from Vodafone if you tell them nicely that is what you want and not ask them what they'll give you.

 

Somewhat goes against what a mobile phone is about that Jack. If you're by a PC then you don't really have a great need for the phone. In the car is fair enough. Accept the valid criticism of the phone for one eh

 

Seeing as my mobile is my only phone I'd say I have a great need for it. OK I accept that the battery could be better, of course it could, but I do get fed up when people moan about battery life on a phone that they use as a laptop and games console and compare it to one that gets used to show a few lines of txt.

 

Interesting yet predictable thread lol.

 

As above really.

If I use it as a phone and only a phone, I can get a few days life span out of it - on my normal usage.

If I spend ages on the internet, facebook, games etc then the battery life will drop a lot quicker.

 

The phone that's not flat when you desperately need it. I know it's obvious but extras aside, reliability is no1 for me, nothing worse than needing help and finding you've got a flat battery.

 

SE X10 on spec looks good.... but I expect it fails to deliver like a lot of recent SE phones.

 

The list of expected and phones in development is endless.
What will make the best phone for each person is completely different to what will make the best for the next person.

Be individual and get the phone that suits YOU best

 

Have to agree. It is simple organisation to keep a mobile battery charged. I've never had one let me down in 25 years. I do prefer to always have a hard-wired car kit fitted though, which takes care of power on journeys and for the time it is with me before it returns to the car.

Things have changed with people using the phone not as a phone though and therein lies the real problem. That coupled with most people not being in the slightest bit organised. It isn't difficult to charge a battery or 2 at home when you're there.

 

HTC PASSION


None of this iphone ****

 

Can you ruin the iPhone battery by 'topping up' the charge?
Reason I ask is that my 7 month old 3GS doesn't seem to hold it's charge as well as it did. I switch it to airplane mode over night as I use it for an alarm and it drops 15-20%?!

The next iPhone will need a flash and better battery life. As far as I'm concerned they're the only negatives to an otherwise fantastic phone.

 

Not to turn this into a blackberry v iphone thing but the BB I have has a bedside mode which you can turn on or schedule to run between certain hours. It allows you to disable parts of the phone you don't wish to be active during the night but I presume it also aids battery life.

 

You can get an application for the HTC hero to put it into the reduced battery life mode at certain times and/or locations, I would guess you can get the same for the iPhone be it so "great"

 

If it uses a Li-ion battery then you can ruin its ability to hold a charge well by doing this. The more you charge them the faster you can ruin the battery.

Battery technology, be it in mobiles or any electrical devices, is awful. You can get batteries that take to charge cycles very well but they are not so good when it comes to "intense engery use" for example, leaving a camera switched off for months and then suddenly turning it on and using it with flash and zooms etc. Then of course you get batteries which are great for the intense mode but they take craply to recharging cycles.

 

Lithium Ion batteries can be topped up repeatedly without any ill effects if you ask certain people. If you ask Apple you will get told this though as part of maintenance;
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).


Have you thought about buying an alarm clock instead?

 

This bit might help.

 

Everything you never needed to know about Li-ion batteries - unless you have a product in which the battery can't easily be replaced...

How to prolong lithium-based batteries

 

airplane mode kills all the radio functions doesn't it? Similar I agree but not the same. You can kill phone calls and email updates coming through but allow texts to arrive and tailor how the phone alerts you if at all.

 

Or plugging it in.

 

lol. Deerrrrrrr

 

well there is that but that would involve moving the cable from one room to the other...

 

I think Jack's answer was in relation to the guy who wanted the phone to act as an alarm clock as well.

 

No idea of the specifics. I opted out of following fashion.

Bed is for sleep and not for listening to the radio.

 

Surely the answer with the iphone is just to carry a spare battery and swap it over with the original as and when you need to?

Thats what I do when i travel with my android G1 as there no real charging points on 25 hour airplane journey.

 

Except you cant change the battery on an iPhone on the fly can you ? They are not removable so to speak

 

well that does not sound good!


For me its going to be the nexus one enterprise (nexus one with slide out keyboard) but i still use my trusty blackberry 8700g alot when i am abroad

 

Modern planes have USB charging points in the seat, on older planes - if sat at the back - I either use my laptop to charge it or ask the crew. If desperate I have spent 20 minutes in the bog where you'll find a shaver socket. Never in my life have I carried a spare battery for a phone and I doubt I ever will.

 

Nokia have lost the smartphone war in my opinion and wont get it back.

BlackBerry = best for business (I run 140 devices + BES)
iPhone = best toy+tech although battery a major concern
Google/Android = no personal experience but I hope it gets decent share as the iPhone needs competion

 

I disagree with that, i have a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and its the best phone ive ever owned. You must be doing something wrong if your struggling to use a touch screen phone and making lots of spelling mistakes. The 5800 has a great qwerty keyboard, you can either have a small keyboard or a full size one which is great for typing on.