Me and My Mac

As anyone who owns an iPhone will be able to tell you - the battery life is rubbish. Even if you don’t think it’s rubbish, at the very least, it’s disappointing.

Well, as it turns out, its actually about average when you compare it to devices that do similar things.  It’s not great, but then, you wont find a device that accomplishes everything the iPhone that does while having much better battery performance.

That said, I’m convinced that the HTC desire battery performs better, but not by much.  If you use your phone often, you still need to charge it every day… and to be honest, I doubt any users in that group (me included) would notice any additional performance of a phone battery until we get to the stage of it lasting two full days with use.

However, all this in mind - the HTC wins the battery war still, in one important way. You can remove it.

I understand the reasoning behind Apple’s non-removable battery, the same as the MacBook, less space for mechanism equals more space for battery. I appreciate this approach with my macbook, the life is decent as a result.  It’s really sound reasoning, but they are forsaking the fact that if you have a removable battery, you can carry a charged spare.

This flexibility, alongside with the likelihood of a higher performance battery upgrade in the near future (which you can swap in yourself), is one thing I really miss with my iPhone.

Sorry iPhone, but the Desire, with its better performance (marginal tho it may be), and removable battery, wins this round.

HTC Desire 2 – iPhone 2 

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