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One of the complaints I hear frequently about the iPhone is its lousy battery life. To be honest, the battery hasn’t seemed that bad coming from a Treo 800w and its miniscule battery. However, there are circumstances that will test the strongest battery, and I recently met with just such an event!

Every year when school lets out, I go off with the AJROTC to north Alabama for a week or two. Cell coverage is lousy where we go, and Verizon is the only carrier that has any 3G coverage at all. To compound an already bad situation, the National Guard recently renovated the buildings we use, and the new siding works great at keeping out cell signals. So our phones spend the day working as hard as they can at catching and holding a signal which really eats up battery life.

The first day of camp I let my iPhone play its little game of capture the service signal. And when I returned to my barracks after dinner, I had about 20% remaining on what had been a full charge at the start of the day. For the next two days, I plugged my iPhone into the RichardSolo 1800 Smart Backup Battery just for a few minutes every 2-3 hours. At the end of the day, my iPhone was still way about 50%, and it took five days without recharging before the 1800 finally complained and wanted a charge of its own.

Read the rest of the review at Just Another Geek Site.

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