[geeks] iPhone interface

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:00:00PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
>
>> I jumped on the Googlephone/G1 about a month after it came out.  It
>> still feels a lot like a beta unit, some basic functionality that
>> Handspring/Palm figured years ago is still lacking on the Android
>> platform.  I'm hoping that 1.5 'Cupcacke', which is due out any day
>> now, will address most of it.  I'm really hoping T-Mobile pulls their
>> head out of their backsides and lets us do tethering w/o having to
>> jailbreak/root the device.  They let us do tethering with other
>> phones, what makes this one so special?
>
> What has been your experience of the G1 battery life?

It's been pretty poor, honestly, but I spend most of my day sitting at
my desk, so it is usually plugged in and charging.  I'm used to poor
battery life, the Treos I used before this were pretty sad in that
respect as well.  I also have a charger in my car, a charger next to the
couch in the living room, and a charger on my nightstand next to the
bed.  Probably a bit overkill, but I had extra USB-ended chargers.

As an example, I pulled mine off the charger this morning about 7:30am
when I headed out the door, full charge.  Drove to the dealership to
get my 70k maintenance done, spent a few minutes reading the t-mobile
cupcake update forum (still no update!!), made a short phone call, got
into the office at about 8:30, battery was down to 90% already.

I have a profile manager with various profiles set up to turn off things
not needed to minimize battery use.  My 'work' profile has the screen
brightness turned down, GPS and Wi-Fi turned off (no LEAP auth (yet?)),
etc.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org