does anyone have the Verizon "Droid Incredible"

[Sweetwater]

I have a blackberry now and have done my research and it looks like "Incredible" is the way to go. I will be upgrading very soon.

[fishsmith]

any word on battery life? I hear the 1st gen droids eat the battery within 12hrs due to all the apps trying to update .

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by fishsmith

any word on battery life? I hear the 1st gen droids eat the battery within 12hrs due to all the apps trying to update .

1st gen or otherwise I don't think any of the Android based phones are too good when it comes to battery life.

I originally didn't have "Advanced Task Killer" on my phone because it has plenty of processing power. On the original Moto Droid a lot of people use it to keep the phone running fast and not using all the RAM.

But on my phone I use it every once in a while to kill any apps I'm not using to help extend battery life.

You can change update frequency on almost anything, set the screen to auto brightness, lower the time out time on the screen and a bunch of other tweaks and gain some battery life, but don't expect a long lived phone due to all it's doing in the background.

Unless you're really tough on the phone (lots of talking, wi-fi use and GPS running all day, etc) it'll make it through the day easily. I usually top off morning and evening and rarely run below 1/2.