I've been playing with the Nexus One pretty heavily for the past 24 hours and I can confirm that the battery is basically what you'd expect. Heavy usage means you won't make it through the day, but you can easily do so on reasonable web surfing/texting and moderate numbers of phone calls.
Agreed about battery life. If I turn off data syncing and don't use my Nexus One as a smartphone, but rather just a normal phone (eschew browsing and so forth other than a quick "where's my stop on this unfamiliar public transit?") I get more than a full day of battery life. I've never tested it past a day and a half, since that's when I invariably get wherever I was going but it doesn't drop very quickly when it has less to do.
The Nexus 4 had great battery life initially - you could get through nearly 2 days with it. After a lot of use, mine is not so great any more, but still quite usable - I don't have to worry about whether it'll make it through the day.
3100 mAh shall actually be around 2 days of semi-heavy use. Owning Nexus 4 and 5, they both exceed two days of normal use or 1 day of heavy use, but the advertised oneplus one is going to have extraordinarly larger battery.
So I would say, expect it last two full days as long as you are not overly heavy mobile user.
Yes, not two weeks, but dumbphones never lasted two weeks back these days. Honestly the new smartphones are finally catching up with reasonable battery life expectations than two years ago.
I'm very satisfied with the battery life of my HTC One. I use it quite a bit during the day (a few sessions of Duolingo per day, HN frequently, the odd email/chat, etc) and it's still at 40-50% at night (I charge it anyway when I'm asleep, though).
It's currently been on battery for 18 hours and it's still at 23%, and this includes listening to audiobooks for an hour in the car, etc. It's pretty great.
on battery life, i get anywhere from 1.5 to 3 days on my HSPA+ nexus (from play store) the way i use it. definitely have never sweated getting through a day.
* fair amount of web browsing
* little or no media or games
* heavy twitter, fairly heavy facebook
* 50+ SMS/gvoice messages per day
* 50+ emails a day
* ~1-2 hours of phone
* ~30 mins of tethering a day
coming from an iphone myself i was worried about battery life on the nexus, but it actually does better than my iphone did.
I've seen people claim that the Nexus 4 has bad battery life, and just don't understand it. I charge my Nexus 4 roughly every other day. And not because it runs out of charge at that point, but because I don't like to have the battery go much under about 40% or so. In my normal usage, the battery would easily last at least 3 days. (I've got a screenshot of the battery being at 25% after 4 days since last recharge).
My use case is roughly:
- About half an hour of screen on per day, mostly web browsing
- About 2h of audio playback per day
- About 3-4h on HSPA every day, on WiFi for the rest of the day
- Several kinds of automatic syncing going on (for example all default Google services, Google Now enabled, automated podcast polling + downloads)
Now, that might not be the heaviest workload in the world. But it's certainly realistic, and at least compared to any other Android phones I've used the battery life is nothing short of amazing.
Weird, I must be imagining the 16+ hours of battery life I've been getting nearly daily for the past 3 and a half months.
I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.
I bought the same phone recently, and for my light usage pattern (some texting, the browser, Google Translate, Google Maps, a calculator app, and the camera), the battery lasts almost 5 days!
I had completely forgotten how it is to own a phone that doesn't need to charge everyday...
Well, in my case, I was using a second hand Nexus One for years (almost 3 years if I remember it right) without problems with the battery. I think that if you respect the charging cycles, you make it last longer (I usually wait until 10% of battery left to charge it)
I'd hazard a guess your Android experience was a year or two ago. My Nexus 1 lasted barely a day when it arrived, but now lasts 48 hours on Gingerbread (2.3) with everything (including wifi, bluetooth and GPS) on.
Granted I am upgrading from a 2 year old Galaxy Nexus that would fully drain in a few hours, but I am quite happy with the N5 battery life. The only way I don't make it through a full day is if I play A LOT of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
When I had Nexus 5, the battery lasted for two days of normal office usage. (I.e. no games, no permanent facebooking, no permanent browsing, having good signal and the only "optimization" was turning Google Now off).
I average 6 hours of screen on time, easily lasts the whole day. You should be careful talking about the performance of a phone you haven't used, I don't know if you've heard but people on Reddit sometimes don't tell the truth...
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