Well here we are on day two of Mobile Mike’s T-Mobile G1 Journal! Today was my first day back at work with my G1 in hand. Today I left my blackberry Storm at home, GASP!, and Strictly used the G1 all day. In fact I still have not picked my Blackberry up and I have been home for the last couple of hours. So how did the G1 fair today while at work? Pretty darn good aside from one issue that is REALLY annoying, the craptastic battery life!
I unplugged the G1 at around 10am this morning and headed to work. On the way to work I listened to about 15 minutes of a Podcast without it charging at the same time. When I got to work I responded to a few text messages and some emails, and of course busted out Twidroid for my Twitter habit. Of my 8 hour work day, my usage consisted of Twidroid use and text messaging throughout the day. I did browse the web off and on too, I did not use Wifi, but EDGE instead (T-Mo doesn’t have 3G here yet). After about 4 hours my battery had taken a huge hit and was down to about 60%. At the end of my 8 hour work day, the battery was down to about 20%. I started researching and found this Seidio Battery. It is physically the same size as the OEM G1 battery, but packs 1400mah VS the stock 1100mah. I ordered it right away and hopefully it will help with my battery issues.
Battery problems aside, the G1 was great to use today. It kept me in the loop on Twitter, I LOVE the Gmail client, and the web browser is probably my favorite on a mobile device. Also I found the keyboard very easy to use when sending text messages all day as well. I also uninstalled anything that may run in the background and installed an app called “Power Manager” to try and help with the battery life. I will put it through a complete test tomorrow with everything running and see how it does since today I ran the G1 with everything off (GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc..).
There you have it! Day two of Mobile Mike’s T-mobile G1 Journal in the bag! Stay tuned for another post tomorrow! Of course please fire any questions/suggestions away to me on Twitter, @mikef1182, or email me at MobileMike01@gmail.com!
