Battery life: “The downfall of the Pre”

I have no room to talk as my iPhone’s battery life sucks.  However, you would think manufacturers would take past mistakes to heart and learn from them.  It appears Palm can only do so much innovating at one time.  The Pre’s batter is going to be the same size as the Palm Centro, not that great.  1150mAh-1350mAh is about what we can expect the Pre to ship with.  Which in my opinion is way to small for a smartphone in the current time frame.  Battery technology has not caught up with other exploading areas of electronics such as processing power.  Because of that, the only real way to get around it are to build more efficient phones (hardware/software) and make the battery physically bigger.  While there are many 3rd party batteries a smartphone owner can buy, the manufacturer of the smartphone should step up and stop being cheap and put a battery into the phone that can actually get the job done.  “Thiness” isn’t everything!  I’m looking at you Apple! 

/rant

Source: Gizmodo

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