Help Thinking of buying a Galaxy Nexus, have a question about battery life.

[hamlin69]

Hello I currently have an Iphone 4 and I am considering getting the Galaxy Nexus. I had a captivate and loved the OS but the battery life could not get me through a days work. After texting throughout the day my phone would die within 6-7 hours. With my Iphone 4 I can text all day, search the internet etc. and at the end of the work day I will have 50-60% battery. I always use wifi at work and at home. How long would the Galaxy Nexus last with roughly 50 texts throughout the day, email sync on and random internet surfing?

 

[AntimonyER]

Depends. On Wi-fi, yes all day would be fine with some reserve. On 3G probably pushing it. on 4G not going to happen.

Edit: D'oh! I see you are in Canada. Disregard the 4G part of what I said

 

[quickaudi]

and it'd do it with a bigger screen, which is something to consider

 

[trophynuts]

OP i assume you're referring to a GSM Galaxy Nexus. If so could you add [GSM] to the title please? There is quite a difference in battery life opinions between the GSM and the LTE G NEx. Obviously the GSM is better.

 

[hamlin69]

It would be HSPA+ version. Rogers version, same as AT&T version. I don't have LTE in my area only "4G" HSPA+

 

[Tim K]

I am on wifi all day (LTE version) and with about 2 hours of screen on time I can easily go 20 hours or more. My WORST day was like 14hours but that was with 4G, 3hrs screen on, some GPS and voice calls.

 

[jaspreetaujla]

what u talking about we got lte here let alone hspa 4g.

 

[jhonb]

I went from the iPhone 4 to the GNex and yes, the iPhone Battery live is way better. But that's where it ends. I just purchased one of those extended batteries and covers off of eBay for 8 bucks delivered. It was advertized to have 3 times the juice of my stock battery, but I would say I get about 50% more from it. I think if you purchased a name brand extended battery, it would be much better. I will put the stock back in to my phone as I like it slimmer and don't really need long battery life, but when I am in certain situations, I will pop the extended back in or just carry it as a spare.