My nephew has an Android and he told me I would never be happy with it because of the battery life. Sounds to me that Motorola didn’t figure it out after their RAZR battery disaster.
Completely depends upon what you’re doing with the phone. If I’m using it with WIFI surfing the web, yeah, it dies a LOT faster than surfing via 3G.
I can get about 7-8 hours of web surfing from my phone, via 3G (that’s a LOT of surfing). Cut that by 3 when using WIFI.
I use my phone as a reader and music player when on airplanes, such as the Seattle-to-Tokyo flight. A solid 10 hours, the phone will let me read a book and listen to music non-stop for all that time, and then the subsequent 3 hour flight from Tokyo to Shanghai, and I still have 25% left when I arrive at my apartment.
This week, I charged the phone on Tuesday morning, it’s still showing 60%, and it’s Thursday morning. About 90 minutes talk time so far, a few dozen text messages, and about 5 minutes of Google Maps (got turned around in Jingan district, needed to find out where the heck I was!).
For constant movies or WIFI browsing, yeah, batteries die quick on ALL phones. But other than that it lasts a lot longer. Just like my laptop; if I use it for basic word processing with the screen turned down in brightness and WIFI off, I can get 6 hours out of it. But leave the screen at full brightness and stream a movie via Netflix (thankfully VPNs report you as in-country!), I’m lucky to get 2 hours.