Battery on milestone

[sloopjohnb]

When I said the iphone 3gs was the best I meant 'best overall'. If you add up all the things it does well, it's better then the rest right now. Most journalists, bloggers and even tech enthusiasts agree on that. It doesn't do everything but its features are very well executed.
People are saying I should use my milestone as an 'iphone' to save battery life but you know what? I only get 12-14h out of my milestone if I do lest than half the stuff I did on my iphone and that includes push and also multitasking (the iphone does multitask with email, ipod, safari and phone and even more if you use backgrounder which was my case).
I also prefer gmail on my iphone. On the milestone you have to keep scrolling sideways to read your mail and there's no zoom option like on the iphone. Blackberries are great at doing push and have good battery life but I hate the trackball cause it gets dirty and non responsive over time, not to mention the software that renders html email and websites (it looks like something from 4 years ago).
All the cool google apps/services that made the droid so famous are not available on the milestone. I didn't know that until I got it. You can get a few of them 'unofficialy' but there's no guarantee they'll work forever.
Multitasking is very cool on android, it just disturbs me the fact that the os almost never offers me the option to close an app. I can see the battery draining and it keeps leaving things open and opening apps without my request. I don't like how it manages apps. Having to get a task killer and doing the work myself all the time is really irritating.
I thing I'm gonna return my milestone and get a 3GS. The milestone may work for a lot of people but it's not working for me.

 

[big_adventure]

Really?

OK, then, it seems that, for YOU, the iPhone is the "best". You are absolutely entitled to your opinion. Me, I have 3 reasons for not using an iPhone right now:

1. I don't want Apple to have total control over what I do with my telephoning life. (which is ironic, as I'm writing this message on a MacBook Air and who plays videos and games on an iPod Touch in the Metro - but I've at the very least disguised both of those devices with non-Apple stickers)

2. Related to 1, I HATE Apple's machevelian business practices, and I don't want to "me-too" market for them. If Micro$oft tried the stuff Apple does, they would be CRUCIFIED in the media. Not patching reported bugs for 7 months? That was MS back in 2000. STILL not patching said bug, even when an exploit is out and in the wild? Blocking apps from their store for no good reason? Not even giving you the option to do what you want, when you want, with the phone you bought? Ugh.

3. I use lots of Google stuff, and MY Milestone is fantastic with it. Gmail is, for me, incomparable to the iPhone. It's not apples and oranges, it's apples and battleships. The overwhelming majority of the emails I receive are text, and those render perfectly. HTML mails tend to render great, if you just turn the phone on its side. But the fact that you have effectively the same interface as the web client is what makes it so awesome. And compatibility with everything else Google (except for Docs, of course) really pushes it over the top.

But this is what makes gadgets fun - we get to have what we want in our own devices. I don't see why you would need or want to convince yourself that something is "best" for some nameless, faceless, amorphous blob of people whose opinion, frankly, should matter much less to you than your own, and which is certainly no more qualified. If you want an iPhone 3GS, just go get one!

 

[AlanN]

The iPhone doesn't "multi-task" I think you'll find.

As has been said, treat your Milestone like an iPhone and it'll give you better battery life.

The BB Storm2 doesn't have a trackball?
Nor does the Bold?


As for your argument about apps being open...there are apps you can install to solve that easily.


Just go and get an iPhone!


Simples.