This is my "Numero Uno" complaint about all of these battery saving tips.
To translate for everyone else, "Use your phone in a completely different manner in which you would really, really like to use it and VIOLA!!" you now can get infinite battery life.
Am new to android, coming from BB with infinitely less potential and better batt life. I have seen many of posts like this. While I appreciate the sarcasm, a level of active power management just makes sense to me. Just because it CAN do loads of things, doing them all at once makes little sense - especially with the slim stock battery. If someone wants it do everything simultaneously, the compromise to the extended batt seems reasonable. If I want to run every electricity using thing in my home simultaneously, I have to expect with a BIG electric bill. Or, I can compromise and only turn on stuff I am using and save on the bill.
Most of it seems common sense and with a bit of research, I am fast learning to have access to everything TB does while only running what I need at any given time. I don't need news updating when I only look at it occasionally. I don't need weather updating every 10, 20, 30 min or even every hour. In fact, I don't need weather updating at all - just open the app and in seconds I have the latest. Obviously, there are many others like this. I don't live in 4G so I toggle off 4G with the Phone Info app. Power Control widget lets me easily toggle on/off the various radios and screen brightness. Polling most important emails frequently and less significant ones at longer intervals, etc., etc. To me, most of this makes as much sense as turning off the lights in a room when I leave it, turning off the TV when I am not watching it, lowering the heat when nobody is home, etc.
While I am not a "power user", I charge when I go to sleep. The phone usually has around 25%+ on the battery and this is still with more use than I will have once I am familiar with the device and stop loading/changing/etc.
I don't know anything about SkyDroid but if you need your phone to run that, assuming it as power hungry as you indicate, why not get the big batt for golf days and use the stock one for other times? I'm not really asking for an answer. I am just a little surprised to see how quick people seem to be to slam this device when it won't get 90 mpg going uphill at 150 mph. 1400 mAh is 1400 mAh - when it is used up/wasted unnecessarily...
That all said, I was surprised to thee the HTC EVO 3D announced with a 1730 mAh battery and HDMI out.
