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I ordered one of these batteries on Thursday and it arrived on Saturday. It shipped from Indiana and I am in Chicago so your shipping times may vary. It was $19.99 on Amazon and I did not buy the case although I still might.
I have been running AllStars V5 since the day after it went up.
Day one:
Decent packaging definitely something I could see at a store. The battery itself is heavy, heavier I think than two stock batteries. The back cover is solid plastic with a rubberized coating on it. It still slips around on a table but feels very good in my hand. The extra bulk of the battery and case make my phone easier to grip and combined with the weight makes the phone feel much more substantial almost more well built. I was a little worried about the speaker as the back sits about centimeter further away from the speaker than the old one did, but the new cover has a sort of resonator chamber built in to direct the sound to the speaker grill. I might be imagining it but the internal speaker sounds a little better with the new cover. I do feel that the rubberized coating is going to wear off over time but we will see.
Installed battery at on one in the afternoon. Came with 76% charge. Used it normally the first day and at about 3 am it still had over 40% charge. Ran it down the rest of the way playing angry birds and using a flashlight app. Total time 16 Hours 6 Minutes. Quite awesome.
Day Two:
Pulled the phone off the charger at 2 PM with 100% charge. Set screen to always stay on and used phone to stream music over WiFi using a combination of Pandora, Songza and Google Music. Phone remained this way until 10:30 PM when I got off work. Phone still had 50% charge. Once home I ran the battery down the rest of the way using a flashlight app. Total run time 12 hours 57 Minutes. Equally awesome.
Days three and Four:
Pulled phone off charger at 1 PM. A few short calls some texts about an hours worth of streaming music. Nothing crazy. 65% as of 11:26PM. I am not going to charge it untill it dies.
Total run time 1 Day 13 Hours 58 minutes. Light usage as I was busy upgrading my MacBook to Mountain Lion & Windows 8 and my PC to Windows 8.
Day 5:
Phone died while I was sleeping and I was only able to charge it for a few hours before work. It is currently sitting at 45 %. I am planning on seeing if this gets me through the work day without any more charging.
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I've fallen into the habit of charging my phone every other night. I really do not use my phone too terribly heavily. Anyhow last night was a charge night. Today I only got 12 hours of use. By use I mean pandora for the 7 hours of work and travel too and from work and some browsing of flip board here and there. If it fails again we will see how this companies RMA service is.
Do u have any real life pics of ur phone with battery on. Also i guess u gonna be caseless
I was looking at the case and it does really not protect that good. If u look at front screen shot u can see the silver from the top of phone and the bottom. But i will order the battery
I have this battery as well with the standard back and I have been thinking about a case but as of right now its been a pleasure to use. When I had the nexus extended battery I was worried about battery life. Last year my family and I too a family trip 3 states south from where we live and on that journey my phone roamed the majority of the time killing my battery life. With this battery, if we have to make that trip again then I feel confident that it will survive the trip with easy. I am a heavy user with all my radios on all the time and I get around 12 hours with 33% left average so I would recommend this battery pack its worth the money
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I have this battery too. It has worked well for me. I no longer have to charge twice a day.
There was also a case available on ebay which isnt very good but offers some protection for the phone. I have been unable to find any alternatives.
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How does the ratio of on time compare to screen time with all your test?
Please discuss your battery life here.
Figured it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNEgDGvFr4
From 2:45 it had 69%
to 7:19 it had 64%
so around 1% PER MINUTE when it use!!!!
Well, I hope the battery is 500-600 mHa. That would give the 360 about a 2 day and a bit life between charging. I just wish Motorola would release the specs!!!!
Smartwatches are going to seriously need the ability to generate power from the motion of wearing them. Or an internal nuclear-decay power source. I really like the 360, but think we may still be a generation early on low-power screens and chips to be able to make a thin watch that will last for 3 to 5 days, which would be ideal.
I would rather have quick and easy charging than 2 day life. I would much rather have a smaller/thinner watch than one that can go for three days for no reason (we have electricity in our house!). Why would you not charge it at night? The only scenario I can think of is if you forget by accident or don't seat it in a charger properly. A day charge while you **** shower and shave fixes that better than a bigger battery you have to lug around the other 364 days a year.
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Note10.1Dude said:
Smartwatches are going to seriously need the ability to generate power from the motion of wearing them. Or an internal nuclear-decay power source. I really like the 360, but think we may still be a generation early on low-power screens and chips to be able to make a thin watch that will last for 3 to 5 days, which would be ideal.
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Smartwatches are tough with screens on such a small device its hard to get enough battery to power it for long. This kinetic energy idea would really be brilliant I don't know what the conversions would be but I mean my watch that I have now runs only on kinetic energy, granted theres no display but it has to provide some energy no? Maybe a combo of a battery, kinetic, and solar power could give smartwatches the extra juice they need?
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This kinetic energy idea would really be brilliant I don't know what the conversions would be but I mean my watch that I have now runs only on kinetic energy, granted theres no display but it has to provide some energy no?
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Forget kinetic, if by kinetic you mean the wrist movements. It's not even remotely possible to use. There are some variations that could work:
http://www.thinkbiologic.com/reviews/2010/09/wired-review-reecharge
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/332999904/the-siva-cycle-atom-powering-your-life-one-pedal-a
http://www.ippinka.com/blog/big-rig-charge-your-laptop-by-exercising/
Wireless charging stations spreading to shop counters, restaurants, coffee houses stand a better chance.
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Smartwatches are going to seriously need the ability to generate power from the motion of wearing them.
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It's going to take a while. A really long while. Very, very long. Have a look at regular watches, not mechanical, but kinetically charged quartz. How long did that take to develop? 18 years, at Seiko, and not long after, Citizen just overtook the tech with solar charging. Quartz watches are incredibly frugal. Quartz, an amazing achievement that took at least 30 years to develop for the wrist, and to industrialize. Trivialized today, but when it happened it was amazing. For a while there was also tech that used the body's chemistry to charge the batteries, but it wasn't really competitive, not even for frugal quartz watches. What we call smartwatches are in a different league though, microcomputers, with processors, radios, colorscreens... which are just beginning to be able to last a couple of days of battery power. Being small enough to fit on a wrist is an incredible development in and of itself. Kinetic charging from the wrist - run a marathon and your smartwatch, through a kinetic charger, would last perhaps a few seconds, not enough to even boot up. So kinetic, good luck.
The following article states that the moto 360 will have a battery life of around a week - with wireless charging.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/15/5903241/i-saw-a-moto-360-this-morning
If this is the case, and as per the article - it states that the moto 360 will have more improvements before release - I'd be happy with the 1 week battery life!
I think the week without charging is if you keep screen off. Every demo I have seen the screen is automatically off and when they wake it the screen turns on.
I doubt I will have any issues with battery life with the 360. The way that this is meant to be used is mainly as a watch. Lift your arm, check the time and you're done. You can also check the weather, but how often do you really do that? The other thing that having this on your wrist will do is provide very quick access to notifications. When I'm in a meeting at work, and my phone vibrates in my pocket. Now I wonder if it's worth it to pull my phone out in front of everyone, unlock the screen, pull down my notification and read it. that's a lot of steps just to see if it's important and potentially distracting to the meeting. With the 360, I get a vibrate, and smoothly lift my wrist as if to check to the time, and the notification will be right there and i'm done.
People shouldn't be using their smartwatch to brows the internet, type, or do anything other than a quick glance, in my opinion. In most cases, you will want to just pull your phone out for productivity purposes.
Anyways, I'm not even the least bit worried about battery life. I just want it now!!
A good idea would be to house power source in the straps.
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Smartwatches are going to seriously need the ability to generate power from the motion of wearing them. Or an internal nuclear-decay power source. I really like the 360, but think we may still be a generation early on low-power screens and chips to be able to make a thin watch that will last for 3 to 5 days, which would be ideal.
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See I don't understand this...why do people need 3-5 day battery life? Your phone doesn't last that long...so why would a device that basically DEPENDS on it?
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See I don't understand this...why do people need 3-5 day battery life? Your phone doesn't last that long...so why would a device that basically DEPENDS on it?
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Coming from a pebble -
It's actually quite nice to use the alarm on the watch. It vibrates and wakes you up (quite well, I might add), without waking up the person next to you.
Having to take the watch off to charge kind of loses that ability.
Having a custom charger, I prefer not to bring the charger around with me, lest it get lost/broken (in which case you're kind of screwed).
So it's very nice to be able to top off on friday, and then do whatever on the weekend (camp, out of town, whatever) without worrying about losing power.
Phones are a different beast, since everyone has a microusb cable. (kind of).
And a side worry - if you can just 'get through' a full day and then need to charge - what happens when the battery starts to degrade, like all batteries do?
Going from one full day to less than a full day is totally unacceptable since it's a custom charger. Going from multiple days to less is tolerable.
I'd say nobody NEEDS 3+ days. But let me tell you - I sure will miss it.
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A good idea would be to house power source in the straps.
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No, thank you. Every watch I've owned, the strap is the first thing to fail.If there's no standard, user-replaceable strap, I'm not buying your smartwatch.
The verge said that it last only 12Hrs, less if heavy used.
WSJ said it has to be charged twice a day.
Root cause of the bad battery life might be the fact that it uses a discontinued TI processor, the fact that Android Wear is having on resources and that it has only 320mah, for reference thr LG G watch has 400mah.
Suddenly I don't want it anymore. My Gear fit last from 3 to 5 days depending on usage.
I agree 12 hours.... glad it did not go on sale in Canada.
Average day 6 am to 11 pm .....
Guys....the battery life I am seeing so far is horrible! I took it out of the box at 18%. It started to update and got so low it told me to charge. Wouldn't do anything until I charged it. I let it get to 35% and started again. After the update and finally getting connected to my phone...it's at 14% again. I tried to use it and it's sooooo laggy. I just rebooted it again to see if there was something going on. It's sitting on charger at 13%.
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Guys....the battery life I am seeing so far is horrible! I took it out of the box at 18%. It started to update and got so low it told me to charge. Wouldn't do anything until I charged it. I let it get to 35% and started again. After the update and finally getting connected to my phone...it's at 14% again. I tried to use it and it's sooooo laggy. I just rebooted it again to see if there was something going on. It's sitting on charger at 13%.
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This is making me regret dropping the $265 I did on it
EVOme said:
Guys....the battery life I am seeing so far is horrible! I took it out of the box at 18%. It started to update and got so low it told me to charge. Wouldn't do anything until I charged it. I let it get to 35% and started again. After the update and finally getting connected to my phone...it's at 14% again. I tried to use it and it's sooooo laggy. I just rebooted it again to see if there was something going on. It's sitting on charger at 13%.
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Similar issues here. Trying to pair with phone and getting the watch setup it, I went from 32% to 16% very quickly. Charging now to full and will see how it lasts from full charge. Maybe just requires some conditioning?
At the rate the battery is draining I have a hard time believing I could get 8hrs on a charge. I turned the ambient feature off to conserve battery. It disconnects from phone while it's charging. Well, doesnt get notifcations while charging.
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She's at 70%. Will let you guys know tonight now the battery does from full. Not sure why no other watch battery is like the Gear. My Gear 2 lasted at least 4 days on a charge.
i have both a silver and black hwatch, neither of which are more than a few months old. ive had a hwatch using the same mostly black watch face and the same brightness and tilt to wake settings since 11/2015 so im pretty familiar with my battery. normally at the end of a day im at 40% or so, 25% if its been a really long 18-20h day. plenty of battery to never worry about having to get it to a charger mid-day, even if i got out after my 12h shift at work. last wed i was wearing my black watch and leaving said 12h shift and noticed my face was dark, and my battery saver was on because i was only at 9%. didnt think much of it, every now and then i have a hiccup and a simple power cycle and full charge fixes it. but the next day my silver one also was struggling to make it through a non-work day. i hadnt made any recent changes or installed any new apps. the fairly terrible wear battery stats listed watch idle highest at around 7-8%, followed by screen, daily tracking and up at 1-3% each. i dont use the daily tracking app, but there doesnt appear to be a way to disable it, so no new pattern changes. my pixel did upgrade to oreo on 8/21, but i had no issues that day or the next. figured a factory reset may be in order, so i reset the black hwatch but the same problems persist. im not usually getting quite down to battery saver by the end of the day, but i definitely need to put it on the charger as soon as i get home and today my silver watch did run all the way down kind of out of nowhere, since it didnt come off the charger until around 10am and was at 15% by 10-1015pm. any thoughts?
They are simply useless watches!
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i have both a silver and black hwatch, neither of which are more than a few months old. ive had a hwatch using the same mostly black watch face and the same brightness and tilt to wake settings since 11/2015 so im pretty familiar with my battery. normally at the end of a day im at 40% or so, 25% if its been a really long 18-20h day. plenty of battery to never worry about having to get it to a charger mid-day, even if i got out after my 12h shift at work. last wed i was wearing my black watch and leaving said 12h shift and noticed my face was dark, and my battery saver was on because i was only at 9%. didnt think much of it, every now and then i have a hiccup and a simple power cycle and full charge fixes it. but the next day my silver one also was struggling to make it through a non-work day. i hadnt made any recent changes or installed any new apps. the fairly terrible wear battery stats listed watch idle highest at around 7-8%, followed by screen, daily tracking and up at 1-3% each. i dont use the daily tracking app, but there doesnt appear to be a way to disable it, so no new pattern changes. my pixel did upgrade to oreo on 8/21, but i had no issues that day or the next. figured a factory reset may be in order, so i reset the black hwatch but the same problems persist. im not usually getting quite down to battery saver by the end of the day, but i definitely need to put it on the charger as soon as i get home and today my silver watch did run all the way down kind of out of nowhere, since it didnt come off the charger until around 10am and was at 15% by 10-1015pm. any thoughts?
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Unfortunately my new H W2 Classic (bought only 20 days ago) battery life is about 4-5 hours when worn on hand, ADO ON, WiFI OFF, Brightness 3, Wrist Gestures OFF, Tilt to Display is ON.
At these same settings when i place the watch on my table, it will last for less than 6 hours and I wake up to a watch running on fumes!
I am returning it as I read so many people have done so with defective batteries, MOST certainly.
Good luck finding someone willing to share any real useful info, AS no one seems to know what the heck is happening!
Personally, I think these watches are CHEAPLY BUILT.
MY SMASUNG GEAR S3 IS NOT MUCH BETTER EITHER, though it is supposed to be KOREAN!!!
I am really disappointed with these HUGE names who fail to make a simple watch! TAKE A LESSON FROM APPLE! Limited functionality but even their Model 2 (which I have) does more than these watches and with real battery life that lasts at least a day!
Now, we wait for Apple to make their watches run on Android!
One thing to note, as I am writing this response I noticed the Power Usage on my watch increased 3% by Google Play Services and my battery dropped from 83% to 79% in about 3 minutes! Sure at this rate I will have no power in about an hour and a half! Could it be Google Play Services killing these watches?!
I've always had fantastic battery life on my original until the last few months
Edit: TL;DR this case delivers. It's big and bulky and the excellent battery life of the Pixel 2 XL makes it somewhat unnecessary in everyday use, but if you're anticipating an extra heavy day or want to get away for the weekend without a charger you should be able to get by with this.
ZeroLemon sent me a review unit which arrived yesterday. Initial impression is that this thing is huge. The phone is still usable, though I can't imagine trying to do anything one handed. The fingerprint reader is accessable but a bit of a reach. I can cram it into my pocket, but not easily. None of these things are unexpected though; it's an essential trade-off when trying to cram a massive battery into a case. I've had several ZeroLemon cases in the past including for my Pixel XL and Nexus 6P and this case is pretty much the same in fit and finish: a large, heavy battery that has a removable TPU outer skin. The case charges via USB C, which can pass through to the phone. The case will not fast charge the 2 XL since it outputs at 5V/1.5A. Keep in mind this isn't a bad thing; this is meant to be a case and not a portable charger so a fast charge isn't needed and long-term should be a bit kinder to battery health.The case itself charges at 5V/2.1A.
Due to the size you will lose a few things, namely NFC (update: maybe not true, see next post) and the ability to use a USB->3.5mm adapter. This means no Android Pay, if that matters to you. Again, this is a trade-off with a battery case and is nothing unique to the ZeroLemon. Also, don't let the size lull you into thinking this is a rugger case akin to an OtterBox. It will offer your basic drop protection, but not much else as it's essentially a thin TPU case that just happens to be wrapped around a massive battery.
Some background on my usage: my 2XL generally gets great battery life, and even with 4+ sot I rarely need to plug in during the day. I don't do any gaming so my screen time is web browsing, messaging, streaming music and some light video usage. I gave it and my phone a full charge overnight and will be attempting to make it through the weekend with normal usage and not charging with anything but the case. Check the next post for updates and results.
Edit: For some reason XDA isn't letting me attach pictures, but here's a link. My 2 XL is wearing the Ringke Slim in the comparison shot.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DhtfRvu81VSeUTNm1
Update 1: My phone came off the charger at 5:50a and at 7:30p I was down to 35% so I turned the case on. By 8:30p and with some light usage the battery was up to 80%. Not quite rapid charging, but not bad at all. Also, fun find, I stopped by the store on the way home and tried Android Pay even though ZeroLemon claims no NFC. It took 2 tries, but it worked, so unofficially you can still use NFC.
Update 2: Day 2, the phone was at around 75% when I woke up at 5:50a and I again let it drain to 35% before turning the case back on, which was at 5p. It took 2.5h to fully charge and the case is still showing 3/4 LEDs, so somewhere between 50-75% full. Between the amazing battery life I typically get with this phone and how big the ZeroLemon battery is I have a feeling this is going to take a while to fully drain. Maybe I can make it a week?
Final update: Day 3, I turned the case on a bit early today at 44%, and it charged for exactly another hour before the case died. This added another 42% to my battery.
To recap, the first two days I charged from 35% to full, which took 2h31m and 2h29m respectively. Each of the first two days the LEDs dropped by one. Today I only charged for 1h, from 44->86% and the LEDs went from 2 to empty. I remember LED calibration being a bit off with the Pixel XL case as well, so keep this in mind. Still, my phone has been off the charger since 6am Sat morning and at 8p Monday night I'm at 55%. I've had nearly 7h of SOT including streaming the 3rd period and OT of the CBJ/Caps game on Sat over LTE, several hours of listening to both streaming music and downloaded podcasts over Bluetooth, plenty of browsing and measaging, and maybe an hour or so of calls. I didn't try and use my phone any more or less during these past 3 days, so I'd feel comfortable using this case for a weekend trip without charging. The size is prohibitive for me, and frankly the 2 XL gets such great battery life that I wouldn't have use for it on a daily basis. But for extended periods of time away from a charger this case gets the job done comfortably.
I remember on the original pixel all the battery cases would prevent the phone from going into deep sleep. Is your phone able to go into deep sleep with the case attached either when it's charging or not charging?
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I remember on the original pixel all the battery cases would prevent the phone from going into deep sleep. Is your phone able to go into deep sleep with the case attached either when it's charging or not charging?
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that is for mentioning this. I meant to mention that in my intro post, but totally forgot. so far it appears to be sleeping properly. in my daily use I often have something running the background (sleep as Android at night, music during the day, etc) which limits how much it goes into deep sleep, but I am seeing a good amount of deep sleep listed with accubattery. once I run the case battery dead I'll do a proper test of the sleep.
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I remember on the original pixel all the battery cases would prevent the phone from going into deep sleep. Is your phone able to go into deep sleep with the case attached either when it's charging or not charging?
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yes, it sleeps properly. I just left it alone for an hour, with the case powered off, and it slept for 49m
Hi everyone I just wanted to know from the Google Pixel 6 owners/users specifically.
How hot does the Google Pixel 6 get? Is it unbearable to hold in your hand when it gets too hot.
Is the texture of the phone slippery?
How long does the battery last? Would it get you through a full day?
What’s your overall experience using your Google Pixel 6 day to day? (The UI)
1. Hottest i have seen mine is 45c but it was in direct sunshine which exacerbates heating tremendously. It has never been unbearable to hold but if you are somewhere that is very hot (im in the UK where we think 20c is a hot summers day) I'd imagine its going to get rather toasty.
2. Like a bar of wet soap on national see how slippy you can make a bar of wet soap day.
3. I've never run flat in a days use no matter what i have done and i have never had the battery saver kick in.
4. Great.
I know mine has been hot because I have one of my battery apps set to warn me when it gets over a certain temperature. But I use mine in an OtterBox Defender so I don't know how hot it would actually feel against my hand. Mine usually gets hot when I'm both actively using the phone in some fashion, and either charging or have the phone plugged into the car so running Android Auto (when I'm stopped and in Park, if it's not obvious ).
Again, I use the OtterBox Defender - however for the short period of time I didn't have a case on the phone back in late October and November, I didn't have any problems with the phone slipping in my hands. To contrast, the Samsung Note 10+ (loved the hardware, hated the software) was so slippery that on both my couch-side and bed-side tables, I would lay the phone down fully and seemingly securely on either of them and many multiple times in a few minutes I would hear the phone fall to the floor. The Samsung also slipped out of my hand multiple times, but luckily nothing ever broke. I did have mine out of a case for longer because it was when COVID started and it was tougher to find a good deal on the OtterBox Defender.
50% of my battery usually lasts me 24 hours. I never fast charge my phone, I only let the battery get down to 25%, and I have my rooted phone set to stop charging at 75%. That 50% range normally lasts me all day. Even with that root charge limiter, I never charge my phone while I'm sleeping, either.
Overall I'm happy with the UI on the Pixel 6 Pro. I do use Nova Launcher Prime, as I always do.
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Hi everyone I just wanted to know from the Google Pixel 6 owners/users specifically.
How hot does the Google Pixel 6 get? Is it unbearable to hold in your hand when it gets too hot.
Is the texture of the phone slippery?
How long does the battery last? Would it get you through a full day?
What’s your overall experience using your Google Pixel 6 day to day? (The UI)
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1. Depends on many variables (e.g. ambient temperature) and users experience. People have reported it does run hot and others have reported it doesn't. Personally, my phone has never gotten so hot that it is unbearable to hold in your hand (I do use a case).
2. Yes, extremely slippery.
3. Again, this is very much dependent on how the user uses their phone, what apps they have installed and running in the background, etc.. I can easily get through a whole day with the way I use my phone and the apps, etc. I have installed.
4. Great
Hi,
1. I'm using the Google case and rarely feel the heat. Historically, it only went warm when the room temperature is warm as well.
2. As above, I'm using the case and it's never slippery to my mind.
3. The way I'm using it (Reddit, Twitter, YT, Twitch, browsing, I can tell you I never make it through the day without charging at least once.
According to AccuBattery, my average screen on time is 8h and 40minutes (though I have my phone set to charge to 90% max).
I wouldn't mind much charging it but the fact the charging is VERY slow, I'm considering changing it despite the pretty pictures it can take (coming from op6t).
EDIT : When travelling, I always have my external battery with me, due to the phone never making the full day (9-5pm) [no intense use].
4. UI wise is as good as on my op6t (oxygen), using Nova prime on both.
Bests,
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