Extended Battery - Quick Initial Impression

[Speeding Wheels]

JUST got my extended battery delivered and wanted to write my first thoughts on it.
First off... the battery itself felt quite heavy in my hand when I pulled it from the box.
The new back cover gives the phone a much more OG Droid feel since it's squared off.. however there is that strange dropoff where the camera is near the top of the phone.
While I actually like the styling the new back gives the device.. the battery itself adds a LOT of heft to the device. It's going to take me some time to get used to it.

Battery only had 25% charge when I dropped it into my phone.. will have to plug it into my car charger most likely since I have some running around to do this afternoon.

Will give a more detailed review after I have a chance to do a proper drain and fill on it.

 

[BOA]

Great; I plan on picking one up hopefully today myself. Let us know how it goes. The phone currently is pretty light; almost too light so I'm curious to see how much more it adds to it.

 

[bushpilotwannabe]

I picked it up a couple of days ago. I actually like the added weight. Gives it a nice heft, but not too much. I also like the way it changes the shape; I found the phone easier to grip with the larger cover, but maybe that's just because I have big hands.

Keep your charger or old battery handy though, at least at first. On the first day, I saw no improvement over the standard battery. On the second day (today), it was at 60% with moderate use after being off the charger for about 6 hours, but then it dropped to 20% after I played Angry Birds for over an hour. I think it's just going to take a few cycles to get to its potential, but I can tell a difference already and for $25, I'm happy. Once it's broken in, there shouldn't be any problems getting through an entire day on it with no less than moderate use.

 

[BOA]

Can someone post a picture of how their phone looks like with the extended battery on?

 

[Infiniti87]

I bought the extended battery for my Bionic because i had one on my OG Droid and because it was only $25. At this point im not sure if I will use it yet as im getting extraordinary battery life from my Bionics stock battery. When I got my Bionic I drained the Battery, recharged, drained again and recharged. Yesterday according to the Battery stat screen I had 16Hours 34Mins on Battery with just about 5 hours with the display on and i had 50% battery. I surfed the web, played some games, a few phone calls, tons of texts, listened to pandora all on 4G.

 

[Mustang02]

Can someone post a picture of how their phone looks like with the extended battery on?

stock Bionic batteryView attachment 40309 Extended Bionic BatteryView attachment 40311

I have 60% battery left with 10 hours of moderate usage with the extended battery.

 

[BOA]

stock Bionic batteryView attachment 40309 Extended Bionic BatteryView attachment 40311

I have 60% battery left with 10 hours of moderate usage with the extended battery.

Thank you Sir; interesting. So the top portion actually sinks in.

 

[Mustang02]

Has to be due to the camera.

 

[Fonzz]

I'd really like to pick up an extended battery also, but it does NOT look like it will work with the case I have ordered...

 

[seriousfix]

installed extended battery. charged full. so far love the extra weight and feel of the phone. i won't know any stats till i run it for a while. but i have no issue with the phone size.

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