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New battery review
In June I bought the Seidio 2400mAh battery, in the kit that included a screen protector and a stylus-pen. Just thought I'd share my opinions of it after a month or so.
This battery, or one like it, is a must-have...the battery that came with my phone was down around 20% capacity by the end of the day after only moderate use, about the same lifespan of my Kyocera 7135's battery by the time I stopped using it--and that was after two years of use!
That's just not enough juice! So, with some other odds and ends, I got the 2400mAh from Seidio. You'd think (or I would, anyway) that a 2400mAh compared to a 1350mAh (I think that's the rating of the OEM battery?) would give you maybe slightly less than double run time, but I have to tell you, it seems like much more than that. It took a few charges for it to reach its apparent maximum duration, but now that it has it seems I never put the phone to bed without 70% left on the battery meter, with the same use pattern I had before. I've only gotten it down to 10% a handful of times, and this is when I've been really working the phone, taking videos or running the internet all day. So I'm very happy so far with the battery itself.
The battery cover has the odd little hump, which can't be helped based on the shape of the battery, but this has not been any sort of an inconvenience at all...if you lie it on its back it lies there just as sturdily as if the old cover were still on. It doesn't get in my way at all; if anything, it gives me something more to hold onto when I'm using it. It fits perfectly into the Seidio plastic holster I ordered as well.
The cover's finish has been talked about in this thread, and I was expecting something much worse than this...as far as I can tell the color and the 'grain' are identical to the original finish in appearance. If I look REALLY close I'd say that the grain of the new cover is maybe a teensy bit less fine than the original, but you have to really stare to see this. I haven't seen any of the problems mentioned on here about the cover's finish. True that there are a couple of slight scratches on the cover, from normal use leaving the phone lying about on tables and so forth (never dropped, thanks to the Seidio holster), and there're none on the case of the phone itself (much to my surprise), but seriously, I can't really expect to use this phone for a few years and not get it scratched up.
My only complaint, if you can call it that, is that the cover doesn't seem to fit terribly securely onto the phone, just kinda slides in and hangs on somehow. But to be fair, it's never fallen off or anything, so it hasn't posed a problem.
So it's a good battery! I have nothing to compare it to, other than the OEM battery, but it beats the heck out of that.
PS. The battery kit, by the way, arrived at my door REALLY QUICKLY. I don't remember now how long it took, exactly, but I remember thinking, whoa, that's here already??? Well done Seidio.
Last edited by ms009986 : 07-19-2006 at 05:04 PM.
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