My Gear - HTC Touch Battery Usage Report

Day 1 - 20 June

Full charge overnight. Screen set at full brightness.

7:30am - first alarm went off

7:45am - second alarm went off

7:50am - sync my RSS feeds via WiFi for 5 minutes, WiFi off afterwards

8:30-9:00am - set BlueTooth on, started the MediaPlayer for MP3

8:30-9:00am - read RSS feeds off A6Times, see old post here.

9:10am - BlueTooth off

9:15am - reading: 76% battery left

9:45-11:30am - 3 SMS received; reading: 70% battery left

1:20-1:35pm - read RSS feeds of SplashNews (Free RSS feeder, details at www.splashdata.com)

1:40pm - 1 phone call (3 minutes); reading: 61% battery left

1:40-3:30pm - 4 SMS received; change ring tones, show off the Touch-flo to colleagues; reading: 58% battery left

3:30-5:30pm - 2 SMS received, 1 phone call (2 minutes), check schedule; reading: 55% battery left

6:30-7:00pm - read RSS feeds

7:00-7:20pm - sync my RSS feeds via WiFi for 20 minutes (WiFi keeps running); reading: 40% battery left

9:30-11:30pm 4 phone calls (10 minutes total); 3 SMS sent. 2 SMS received: reading: 26% battery left

That’s the report for the first day, we’ll run another one tomorrow to try to draw a conclusion.

Day 2 - 21 June

Full charge overnight. Screen set at full brightness.

7:30am - first alarm went off

7:45am - second alarm went off

7:50am - sync my RSS feeds via WiFi for 10 minutes, WiFi off afterwards

8:30-9:00am - set BlueTooth on, started the MediaPlayer for MP3 (30 minutes)

8:30-8:50am - read RSS feeds

9:10am - BlueTooth off

9:15am - reading: 81% battery left

9:30-11:00am - 3 SMS received; reading: 78% battery left

11:00am-1:30pm - 4 SMS received; 1 phone call (2 minutes); reading: 75% battery left

3:00-6:30pm - BlueTooth on; 4 SMS received, 10 phone calls (15 minutes), read RSS feeds (10 minutes), listen to MP3 (15 minutes); reading: 54% battery left

6:30-11:00pm - BlueTooth remain on, 2 SMS received, 2 phone calls (5 minutes), sync RSS feeds (20 minutes); reading: 45% battery left

Conclusion

• Media Player eats up battery fast
• BlueTooth did not drain as bad as I thought
• The battery needs couple charges to obtain full capacity
• All in all, the battery should be adequate