Well, its official- Beejive is the biggest battery hog EVER.
Yesterday I conducted some pretty scientific gauging to see how quickly my battery gets depleted. Here's what happened on day 1 running Beejive:
| Battery 1 | |
| 7:00AM | 100% |
| 8:44AM | 91% |
| 9:46AM | 86% |
| 10:47AM | 76% |
| 11:47AM | 72% |
| 1:31PM | 45% |
| 2:57PM | 1% |
| Battery2 | |
| 3:00PM | 100% |
| 4:50PM | 89% |
| 6:11PM | 71% |
| 7:00PM | 62% |
| 9:14PM | 31% |
As you can see, I worked my way through almost 2 full batteries in the course of a regular day. I would say my phone gets about 1-2 hours of heavy use at lunch and when I get home at which time I'm watching YouTube, using PockeTwit, texting, and surfing the web.
Here's what happened on Day 2 with the same usage but not running Beejive:
| 7:00 AM | 100% |
| 8:02 AM | 97% |
| 9:09 AM | 92% |
| 10:15 AM | 91% |
| 11:25 AM | 79% |
| 12:36 PM | 77% |
| 1:22 PM | 72% |
| 2:29 PM | 69% |
| 3:30 PM | 67% |
| 4:30 PM | 60% |
| 5:30 PM | 54% |
| 6:56 PM | 49% |
| 8:30 PM | 40% |
My first battery gets me through the entire day! In fact, I've got more juice on one battery than I had on my second one on Day 1!
So, the dilemna is whether or not I will continue to use Beejive. At this point, as I've invested in 2 spare batteries and a standalone charger (the whole bundle was under $20 on eBay!) I think I'll continue to use it and just be prepared to swap out a fresh battery as needed.
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