Yesterday while playing with the phone I exhausted the battery twice. It came half charged and amid all the attempts at online activation and just toying with it, I wore it out which I totally expected. Then while very aggressively playing with settings and multitasking and doing tons of stuff I wore it out again. I wouldn’t say I’d ever actually use it for as much as I did in a normal day though. I basically was fiddling with it from 2PM to about 10PM. So how would it do on a normal day?<\/p>\n
Today was my first general day of use and it still have about 40% of charge left.\u00a0 I made a few phone calls and sent a generous amount of text messages out.\u00a0 Overall not bad.\u00a0 I imagine making it 3-4 weekdays before charging it which is great.\u00a0 I haven’t tried using it as an iPod replacement yet where I’m listening to music on it all the time yet but I love my iPod so I don’t know if I can ever really replace it with the phone. I only now notice how great the battery life of the iPhones continues to get with each iteration.\u00a0 If I’m really desperate though I can always buy a spare battery but there wasn’t an accessory that would charge the battery by itself last I checked unless you can drop a battery onto the touchstone.<\/p>\n
Alright so I’m using the phone for an actual call and I need to put it up to my shoulder so I can use my hands and I realize just how crazy thin the device is.\u00a0 It actually pains me to do such a gesture since I have to tilt my head all the way to my shoulder.\u00a0 The iPhone is probably thinner so this kind of sucks.\u00a0 It’s a great market for bluetooth headsets.\u00a0 I’m thinking about getting one now just for the car at least.\u00a0 However I hate talking and driving so maybe I won’t bother.<\/p>\n
I’ve heard the processor is one of the faster ones of this class of phones, but occasionally things take a bit to load.\u00a0 It’s random it feels like as well.\u00a0 Sometimes an app opens quickly, sometimes slowly.\u00a0 I’m hoping this can be resolved with software updates but otherwise some apps feel like I should just leave them open all the time.\u00a0 If I do that however I don’t get to see my great Domo wallpaper.<\/p>\n
I got a few phone calls.\u00a0 One while working with an app and it felt slow to actually answer.\u00a0 So slow in fact I had to do a double take to see if it even answered.\u00a0 One I got while the phone was not active and it required me to basically unlock the phone to answer it. It felt uncomfortable for that to be the action as opposed to pressing something that says answer phone. It’s just something to get used to though coming from the era of flipping the phone open and hitting talk.<\/p>\n
I heard the Pre was going to charge via USB but it’s not the micro USB connection I imagined it to be.\u00a0 It’s a thin tiny USB connection as opposed to the tiny u shaped connection.\u00a0 The cover was initially very difficult to open, but as I open it more frequently it has gotten significantly easier.\u00a0 However I kind of wish connections like these had an auto-fold away door like some laptops have for their PCMCIA slots.\u00a0 It could also have been nice if it was on the bottom so you could have some kind of standing dock peripheral, but it’s on the side which makes talking while it’s charging kind of annoying unless you’re left handed.<\/p>\n
When I went to Blizzcon last year, texting was definately the way to go.\u00a0 Calling people was poor due to reception and the ambient volume.\u00a0 So being able to read the message quickly was helpful.\u00a0 One problem was, even on the iPhone, there was no way to send messages to lots of people quickly.\u00a0 On the Pre I have to go through my contacts, which can be fairly fast with the keyboard search, but I went through all this trouble in my Google contacts to group people up.\u00a0 So I would be fantastic to actually take advantage of that and be able to designate groups for which you can send messages to.\u00a0 Want to send a text to my family?\u00a0 Send it to the family group instead of picking out each individual family member.\u00a0 Again, hopefully a suggestion that will make it into future software updates.<\/p>\n
I tried putting some of the battle reports from Starcraft 2 onto the phone to see if they’d play natively but they unfortunately do not.\u00a0 I just used the drag and drop interface but it looks like if I want to toss video on it either has to be in the accepted formats or at the very least in my iTunes video library for quick syncing.\u00a0 The transfer felt really slow moving at a sluggish 1-2MB\/sec.\u00a0 I don’t intend to really use it as a big time media player though and if anything I’ll probably just be fine streaming Pandora on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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