Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

[Barkleyfan]

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You sound like you work for VZW? I have had 5 Blackberries before this phone and no issue with the battery life on those. And yes I agree with you the Droid can do allot of things a whole lot more than any BB. But when all I do is the minimal to keep me between charges. I don't use the phone for voice only for data.

If you don't think that there can be an issue with to little battery, than why did they give me two batteries when I bought my Boulder?

Task killer and powerbar are your friends, until there is an acceptable battery alternative. Turn off GPS and WiFi when not in use. Test any programs with widgets. If you can kill them periodically without errors, do so. Weatherbug gets annoying when you kill it. Keep a watch on your battery usage in Settings. With always on services, your battery will drain faster. My Kaiser went from 2 days on a charge to 1 day just from the extra drain when I went from WinMo 6 to WinMo 6.5. All that eye candy and instant data comes with a price. I won't run that tumor looking extended battery, so until a slim one with extra capacity comes along, I'll sync manually, and keep the screen dimmer. And stay away from Robo Defense. That game is murder on a battery.

 

[Backnblack]

Task killer and powerbar are your friends, until there is an acceptable battery alternative.

Task killer is not a necessary app....Quit being so OCD.

 

[TheOldFart]

Not for nothing but,......... That is pretty Damn ugly! I mean, yeah sure it's twice the battery but damn! They could not design it any better than that? I'd like the extended battery but NOT if it means making my Droid look like a jerry rigged POS.

I agree with Tuktanuk. I have no interest in buying the extended battery if it one will not work in the car dock and two not work in the media station dock. The battery life is horrible and needs to be addressed. VZW should give extra batteries as they did with the VZW Boulder.

Your statement is just plain wrong. Verizon sure as hell doesn't owe us free batteries. Battery doors, yes, but not batteries. The droid is a very advanced multitasking smartphone. Considering all the things it can do, the battery performance is perfectly acceptable. I am guessing the droid is your first real smartphone. If battery life is your top priority, get a dumbphone because your requirements for battery life don't exist in the smartphone world.

That's right. If Verizon gave us an extra battery then the Droid would be priced at $240. There is no free lunch. If we were to get 2 batteries then we would pay for it somehow. There is a choice. Either pay $240 for the phone with 2 batteries or pay $200 for the phone and $40 for a second battery if you need it. Why should everybody have to pay for 2 batteries if they don't need a second one? I'll buy a new battery when the charge life on the original one starts to drop noticeably, just like I have done with all my phones.

 

[windstrings]

Task killer and powerbar are your friends, until there is an acceptable battery alternative.

Task killer is not a necessary app....Quit being so OCD.

Not necessary, but helpful... I've read too many posts where performance as well as battery life is improved if you just turn off programs you don't need every day... no use in letting them tie up bandwidth polling eating up battery life.

We have to also remember this is a powerful processor... while its good at idleing, it takes energy to have muscle when you need it.

Also the screen is much larger than a BB.

Many more apps that can run at the same time.

The Droid is much closer to being a computer than a BB ever thought about being.

That being said... most folks love the battery life... I for one, get 14 - 16 hours... so as long as I don't mind charging every night, its hard to have problems.

The only reason I would want an extended battery is I like overkill.
If I want to watch TV clips, extended movies, videos etc.. I don't have to sweat it..... but for normal use the battery life is fine and if you throw a car charger in you car... your never away for long before your back in your car.

 

[JhankG]

I agree with Tuktanuk. I have no interest in buying the extended battery if it one will not work in the car dock and two not work in the media station dock. The battery life is horrible and needs to be addressed. VZW should give extra batteries as they did with the VZW Boulder.

Your statement is just plain wrong. Verizon sure as hell doesn't owe us free batteries. Battery doors, yes, but not batteries. The droid is a very advanced multitasking smartphone. Considering all the things it can do, the battery performance is perfectly acceptable. I am guessing the droid is your first real smartphone. If battery life is your top priority, get a dumbphone because your requirements for battery life don't exist in the smartphone world.

You sound like you work for VZW? I have had 5 Blackberries before this phone and no issue with the battery life on those. And yes I agree with you the Droid can do allot of things a whole lot more than any BB. But when all I do is the minimal to keep me between charges. I don't use the phone for voice only for data.

If you don't think that there can be an issue with to little battery, than why did they give me two batteries when I bought my Boulder?

I never said your old phone didn't have battery issues, I said that the Droid's battery performs as expected considering what it does...

 

[Tegamal]

I think it's a great idea, but that makes the phone look horribly misshapen. it would make every accessory currently available non-compatible. I might be interested in an extended battery in the regular size (as long as it provided at LEAST 50% more power), but other than that, I think I'd have to stick to the stock battery.

 

[Bimmerjo]

Sorry for the derail. But I love your avatar tegamal. that was my first avatar on another forum a looong time ago.

 

[reaper keeper]

I haven’t seen the other options mentioned..... Call pod, Call pod dual, Zagg sparq or any of the other power packs. All have at least twice the mah of the internal battery (the call pod dual I have is 4600 mah). Yea you have to plug them into the phone but you dont have that UGLY thing sticking out the back all the time. It’s a trade off either way, but man this phone is at its limit without adding any more thickness to it (imho).
Well at any rate, there are other options, just in case you didn’t know about them.
:happy:

 

[windstrings]

I think it's a great idea, but that makes the phone look horribly misshapen. it would make every accessory currently available non-compatible. I might be interested in an extended battery in the regular size (as long as it provided at LEAST 50% more power), but other than that, I think I'd have to stick to the stock battery.

I was told by thier staff the absolute biggest an extended battery "in the regular size" would be was 1750mah.. thats 25% bigger... not bad for not increasing the size...at least better than the stock..... but still pale compared to 90% the 2600mah extended would bring.

The best of both worlds would be to make one thats thinner that extends over the whole phone with a port for the camera to see out of and of course not block the speaker thats at the extreme other end.

 

[Tegamal]

Sorry for the derail. But I love your avatar tegamal. that was my first avatar on another forum a looong time ago.

Yeah, it's been my official forum avatar for years on several forums. I wish I knew who made it.

 

[MasonReitz]

So it says on thier site that it is shipping. Has anyone purchased it yet? If so can you review it and compare it to the regular one??

 

[HAWK88]

SEIDO 2600mAh 3.7V Li-ion Polymar Battery

If you look, kind-of Squinty Eyed (us Olde Pharte Gun Drivers use a Magnifying Glass!), you should be able to read 2600mAh 3.7V Li-ion Polymar 3rd line down.

IMHO it does appear possibly Cumbersome with the Thickness being asymmetric?

Obviously, that's not the slim one... And if I'm reading that correctly it says 1750 mAh, yes? That means only 25% more battery life, and it sticks out almost a full centimetre? Ouch...

Can you fit that 1750 mAh power into a slim package that will fit into the original space? That I might be interested in, if it weren't too horribly expensive...

 

[Ninjak]

For those folks concerned about the extended 2600mah battery not fitting in the VZ multimedia dock, it appears Seidio has their own desktop cradle up for preorder now (another one includes a charger). It supports the phone with and without an Innocase even on the 2600mah. Though I already have the VZ dock, this looks quite good and definitely helps my decision to get an extended battery, bulk or no. I lived with the bulk of one on my old Motorola Q, but it was worth it. Now if only the Surface Extended case came in more than just black...

 

[TheOldFart]

I think it's a great idea, but that makes the phone look horribly misshapen. it would make every accessory currently available non-compatible. I might be interested in an extended battery in the regular size (as long as it provided at LEAST 50% more power), but other than that, I think I'd have to stick to the stock battery.

I was told by thier staff the absolute biggest an extended battery "in the regular size" would be was 1750mah.. thats 25% bigger... not bad for not increasing the size...at least better than the stock..... but still pale compared to 90% the 2600mah extended would bring.

The best of both worlds would be to make one thats thinner that extends over the whole phone with a port for the camera to see out of and of course not block the speaker thats at the extreme other end.

If it is 1700 or 1750 mAh in a standard size then that would be about perfect. Being a LiION polymer would also be a plus over just a LiION as far as life at temperature is concerned. The other 2 Seidio batteries are polymer. I would buy it and use my 1400 as a spare. The 1350 and 2600 are definitely out for me.

 

[MasonReitz]

This thread is ALL TALK no buy lol. We jsut need 1 fricking person to buy one of thease bad boys and tell us how pro it really is!!!