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Originally Posted by Esquire1
There's more to costs than just the parts of the phone. Researching and development costs for features, advertising, marketing, etc., etc.
I am also having battery issues. I cannot go a day without the phone dying. I wake up at 6 AM and the battery is on its way out at about 5 PM or so. I mostly use the web browser, GTalk, and chompSMS. I also have a Twitter widget syncing every 30 minutes. Screen is at 5% brightness. GPS is on. Facebook polled every hour.
It seems like this should all be alright. My iPhone 3GS had no problem lasting a day and I even used music on it. I had email fetched every 30 minutes and Twitter every 15 minutes. That worked just fine and I lasted to about 30% at maybe 11 PM.
I think the difference is that I'm using 3G on my N1 when I only used EDGE on my 3GS. I still don't believe that accounts for the huge difference.
I'm going to substantially reduce my network services, like Twitter (1 hour intervals) and see how it goes. Maybe I'll also stop GPS but that's a shame. I shouldn't have to compromise on something like that. Constant network polling, I can understand compromising. But not GPS.
I also did not fully charge my N1 before using it. But these batteries don't need that nor do they need to be calibrated. That's old school. I might as well give it a try, however. Won't hurt.
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I do understand the costs of R&D for a company, however you're forgetting who the company in this particular case is. Google went to HTC, gave them the specs that they want, saw some HTC prototypes, and that was it. HTC has been doing this for a lonnnnng time already. On the marketing front, it's Google. They put it up on their adsense, pay a little bit for some web banners and that's it. You're not seeing ads on TV or anywhere else. It's meant to be a phone that geeks initially adopt and then spread by word of mouth. For this company and for this phone, not much money was spent. Not even in distribution!
The batteries do need an additional calibration, and then once every 3 or 4 months. Based on your usage specs, it seems normal. If you leave a twitter client on, and especially Gtalk, they will use up a good chunk of battery, especially the former because it's always maintaining a connection via the network. GPS however is the #1 battery killer on smartphones. I'd encourage you to disable that and Wifi when not in use. On the Nexus, we have that power widget which makes those tasks pretty simple to do. Another thing that sucks up battery is the syncing that Google has with its accounts (Google Sync aka push email/contacts/calendar). If you find that you don't change your contacts or calendar too often, perhaps disable those from syncing all the time and just enable when needed. It's in Settings>Accounts & Sync. Maybe this will give you a few more hours throughout the day.