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What a difference a week makes.

Today I am going to sleep with a 70% charge remaining on my phone after medium usage since 8am this morning. So that's 16 hours the phone has chugged along using on 30% battery. Now either it's lying or something was very wrong with it last week when I first got it. But that's actually really decent battery usage and better than the BJI. I've correlated these results with my co-workers who are anxiously sporting their BJ IIs after hearing my sob story.

I suspect there are a few things going on:

• The battery is now calibrated. I know these things have all sorts of circuitry so my guess is something was not right.
• I didn't use GPS today. I have a sneaking suspicion GPS can do bad things to the battery.

I'm still VERY VERY annoyed at the removal of the Internet Connection Sharing feature and if I traveled a lot, this might have to be replaced with a Moto Q. However, I like that the Blackjack is, smaller, lighter, and has the cool jog dial. I have a temporary workaround for the lack of ICS thing (using it as a modem) but that's kinda a pain.

update: see this post to get ICS working.

I really genuinely hope that AT&T and Samsung release a service pack for this thing to make it whole. They have a horrible track record of doing so though.

I had to turn off push email during peak times to prevent the backlight from coming on a zillion times a day, but setting the sync interval to 10 minutes increases my battery life and makes more sense during the work day.

I am very much looking forward to Windows Mobile 6.1 for the following features:

• Threaded SMS
• Copy/Paste Support
• Awesome Home Screen Navigation

But my guess is that I'll have to wait for the Blackjack III to get it.

In the mean time check out:

• Extreme Text for Threaded SMS
• Vito Copy/Paste for Copy/Paste support