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The HTC Thunderbolt has been available to purchase for less than 24 hours and we’re already seeing report from bloggers who are claiming that the device suffers from poor battery life. One report has taken things to a whole new level, by reporting that the Thunderbolt consumed 92% of its battery reserve in 3 hours and 34 minutes. The report claims “average to heavy” usage, but the screenshot they provided clearly indicates that the phone was awake for nearly 78% of 3:45 time period. One man’s definition of “average to heavy” usage can really mean anything, but I would tend to classify 78% awake time as “extremely heavy.”
Like many other bloggers, I’ve been playing around with the HTC Thunderbolt for a little more than a day. I have not done any stress testing on the battery yet, but I have used the Thunderbolt today as my main device for news, Twitter, phone calls, Gmail, and some light gaming (20 minutes of Dungeon Defenders). After being off the charger for 8 hours, the HTC Thunderbolt still has 30% battery life remaining.
I’m not here to claim that the HTC Thunderbolt has amazing battery life. It does feel like it will fall short compared to the HTC Inspire 4G or even the EVO, but I don’t think it’s half as bad as some other bloggers are reporting. I simply hope people don’t jump to any conclusions about the HTC Thunderbolt’s battery life before some thorough testing is completed. After a full week of testing, I’ll be giving you guys my final opinion of the HTC Thunderbolt’s battery.
We’ve been passed some rather interesting information on the battery life of the HTC ThunderBolt from our pal Vince over on SlashGear – specifically, that the first day using it didn’t add up to a very good long life of usage. We’ll be getting our review model in later today, but for now, let’s take a peek at one test that revealed much less than a full day’s work on a single charge. And note – this is indeed only one test, and there’s much more testing to be done, but it is a real-world situation nonetheless.
After having just charged the unit up from zero to full, Vince took the HTC ThunderBolt from Verizon out for a spin. Once one hour had passed and having done “regular tasks” like email, internet browsing, Twitter, and a little bit of Facebook, the batter displayed 70%. The battery then hit 50% after having been used in the same way approximately another full hour. And the battery is right around 30% after 2:15:21 the ThunderBolt was used an “average to heavy” amount of time.
Finally, with an uptime of 3:34:03 and actual usage time of 2:45:59, the battery was at 8%. During this time there were no phonicalls made, no YouTube or Videos watched, no Wifi used. This amount of time was dedicated to LTE for data working with email, Twitter, Disqus, downloading the app Dungeon Defenders, and etcetera.
So is the battery draining pretty quick? Seems that way. We’ll be bringing an extra battery pack along to CTIA 2011 since this will still be the phone we’re using there primarily. Speaking of which – do you think there’ll be a phone in there worthy of eclipsing the HTC ThunderBolt?
ALSO: Vince (and I) will be going through more natural day-to-day tests today for the battery and everything else, so we’ll have more results up here in a few hours. Take note that the “usage time” might be strange in the first test because every time we plug the device into the computer to take screenshots using the developer program, the time resets (if anyone has a screenshot app that works outside of root, we’re all ears!) For further tests, we’ll be taking photos of the screen to avoid this problem.
Our next test here is being conducted as a mix between LTE and Wifi whereas the test yesterday was done purely on 4G LTE. I think you’ll be interested to see that the results appear to be quite different.
Like many other bloggers, I’ve been playing around with the HTC Thunderbolt for a little more than a day. I have not done any stress testing on the battery yet, but I have used the Thunderbolt today as my main device for news, Twitter, phone calls, Gmail, and some light gaming (20 minutes of Dungeon Defenders). After being off the charger for 8 hours, the HTC Thunderbolt still has 30% battery life remaining.
I’m not here to claim that the HTC Thunderbolt has amazing battery life. It does feel like it will fall short compared to the HTC Inspire 4G or even the EVO, but I don’t think it’s half as bad as some other bloggers are reporting. I simply hope people don’t jump to any conclusions about the HTC Thunderbolt’s battery life before some thorough testing is completed. After a full week of testing, I’ll be giving you guys my final opinion of the HTC Thunderbolt’s battery.
We’ve been passed some rather interesting information on the battery life of the HTC ThunderBolt from our pal Vince over on SlashGear – specifically, that the first day using it didn’t add up to a very good long life of usage. We’ll be getting our review model in later today, but for now, let’s take a peek at one test that revealed much less than a full day’s work on a single charge. And note – this is indeed only one test, and there’s much more testing to be done, but it is a real-world situation nonetheless.
After having just charged the unit up from zero to full, Vince took the HTC ThunderBolt from Verizon out for a spin. Once one hour had passed and having done “regular tasks” like email, internet browsing, Twitter, and a little bit of Facebook, the batter displayed 70%. The battery then hit 50% after having been used in the same way approximately another full hour. And the battery is right around 30% after 2:15:21 the ThunderBolt was used an “average to heavy” amount of time.
Finally, with an uptime of 3:34:03 and actual usage time of 2:45:59, the battery was at 8%. During this time there were no phonicalls made, no YouTube or Videos watched, no Wifi used. This amount of time was dedicated to LTE for data working with email, Twitter, Disqus, downloading the app Dungeon Defenders, and etcetera.
So is the battery draining pretty quick? Seems that way. We’ll be bringing an extra battery pack along to CTIA 2011 since this will still be the phone we’re using there primarily. Speaking of which – do you think there’ll be a phone in there worthy of eclipsing the HTC ThunderBolt?
ALSO: Vince (and I) will be going through more natural day-to-day tests today for the battery and everything else, so we’ll have more results up here in a few hours. Take note that the “usage time” might be strange in the first test because every time we plug the device into the computer to take screenshots using the developer program, the time resets (if anyone has a screenshot app that works outside of root, we’re all ears!) For further tests, we’ll be taking photos of the screen to avoid this problem.
Our next test here is being conducted as a mix between LTE and Wifi whereas the test yesterday was done purely on 4G LTE. I think you’ll be interested to see that the results appear to be quite different.
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