Ok, here's some feedback on what I did to increase battery life. Some interesting things I've noticed. I made a couple minor settings changes and now my battery seems to run 3-5 times longer at least. I'll let you know tomorrow, since I didn't have a full day test. But I'm using the hell out the device and it's holding this time. The difference?

3 things.

1 is active sync, obviously. However, I didn't kill the data connection. All I had to do was tell it to sync at 30 min intervals and not "as items arrive". What can I say, I was used to it from before.

2, and this is the kicker. I disabled the backlight. The device even has a warning right there that says prolonged use of the backlight will drain the battery fast. I has no idea how fast. The one nice thing is that you dont really need the backlight since the omnia has such a bright LCD display. I did this from the "power" setting and told it NOT to light the backlight when the screen is tapped. Ok, one interesting bug I came across which also helps. When you do this, it also disabled the accelerometer. However, this may not be a bad thing since I'm thinking that drains the battery too. it's a sensor. And the backlight being off all the time disables the auto light sensor on the front.

3. Using touchpal means that I'm not wearing out the hepatic function. This also has been saving on battery drain with it vibbing everytime I touched a key previously on the Samsung keyboard. I like the action, but it's not worth the juice.

End result, even with the data connection being left alive, my device battery now seem more like it just took a 24 hour Viagra pill. What an amazing difference. last 2 days, I would run out of juice after 8 hours. Today, I've gone 13 hours, and am still at 60%, and I have been using it all day, typing, web surfing, email etc..

Tomorrow, I may just leave it on "sync as items arrive" and compare each day. I'll post more results.