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"Amazing phone!"
5.0 starson by dgonzalez375Pros: UI, amazing hardware, tough and sleek. Great screen, love the high quality gorilla glass, absolutley everything is top notch
Cons: Might be a bit large for those with smaller hands
Summary: I've had it for about 1 month now and I can't be happier. Now to address battery life since this is the biggest gripe most people have with this phone. First, the battery is not removalbe. So what? The iPhone does not have a removable battery either and how often are you really doing this anyway. Second, learn to use the phones features. Your Task Manager allows you to add your most used programs to the time out list so after 2 minutes of inacitivty, the programs will shut off and won't use proccessing power and drain your battery. Learn to use and customize your Smart Actions, this is a great feature. You can customize your phone to turn off, sleep, airplane mode, at certain times, etc. so your battery life will be pretty good once you set it up. Third, you do not need to be on 4G all the time. You can toggle between 3G and 4G, or just download a simple toggle from the market. Lastly, use common sense and put your phone down every once in a while, you do not need to be plugged in to the universe 24/7. Don't blame the hardware if you don't know how to use it.
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I mostly agree with your post. But for most people it isn't that easy. After all, we bought this rather expensive device to use it, not turn off most of its capabilities.
I've had the phone for a few months, experimenting with all the settings to optimize between capabilites and battery life. But all that has limits. For example, yesterday my wife and I went into New York City from CT. I made/received a few calls/texts, used maps to find a couple of locations, turned on wifi for a bit in a coffe shop, and by the time we got on the train to come home the battery was gone. And that's with all the stuff turned off that I could think of including all that you suggest.
Rubbing salt into the wounds, Motorola and Verizon know there's a problem and they're releasing the MAXX version in March claiming the best battery life of any 4G phone. Those of us with the first version are stuck with an inferior product that should never have been launched until they figured out the battery issue.
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