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shoes review Pharos PB010 IGPS 500

UPDATE 4/17/13:
It's nice when your phone's battery gets to 15% left and you can ignore (and laugh) at the "Connect your phone to a charger now!" warning that pops up. It hit 15% battery at 3:00 pm yesterday. My phone lasted another 9 hours till midnight before it hit 2%, without plugging it in to charge. I had 3 hours of screen time during that 9 hours.
Simply amazing!

UPDATE 4/15/13:
On recharge #5 I got 39 hours (letting it drop to 2%). So I can go 2 days on a single charge (from when I wake up till I go to sleep the next day) with very heavy usage (10 to 12 hours of screen time). Finally, a battery that outlasts me!

For the recharge time, it takes about 8 to 9 hours. It reaches 100% in about 5.5 hours. But the phone tells me it is fully charged 2 to 3 hours later (ie I get the indicator in the notification bar that charging is complete).

UPDATE 4/11/13:
Last night I wanted to see how many hours it would last if I let it drain to 1% (instead of 2%). It was stubborn but eventually around midnight it hit 1%.
I got 41 hours total (instead of the 36 hours I had for the 3 previous charges). That's with fairly heavy use (14 hours screen time) over the last two days. It went from 7:00 am Tues to midnight Wed on a single charge.

REVIEW:
So far the battery is working very well. I used to avg about 10 to 12 hours with the stock battery. But I would charge every chance I got (at work, in the car) just to make it till bedtime. Now I easily get 36 hours and only have to charge once every two days. This is with 11 to 12 hours of the screen being on (which is a lot). If you are a casual phone user (I'm not at all) I could see your charge easily lasting 3 days, maybe 4.

I could easily go 40+ hours (maybe 48 hours) but I'm trying to get it to die quicker (when I hit 15%) before I go to bed so I can put it on charge. They recommend letting it drain to 2% before charging it fully for the first 5 charge cycles. I'm trying to follow the guidelines that came with the battery to maximize its usage. Sometimes it takes a couple hours of screen time to go from 5% to 2% (which is awesome!).

Using the Samsung charger that came with the phone, it takes about 6 or 7 hours to charge fully from 2%. It seems to charge quickly up to 60% or 70% for the first 2 hours and then starts to slow down after that. But, that's not bad at all since I usually let my old battery charge overnight anyway.

The phone is heavier but I don't really mind much because it was very light before. It's thicker (not quite twice as thick but close) but the case that comes with it is does not add much bulk at all but is still just as protective as my previous case. It is not any taller or wider, just thicker.

The battery is a little tough to get in since it fits tightly. It took me several minutes because I was being careful. But that's about the only drawback I can think of. And you only have to do it once anyway (unless you swap batteries which you shouldn't have to do anymore).

Get one if you are thinking about it. It's well worth the money.

Here is the record of discharging and charging if you are interested:
4/9 Tues
@3.5 hrs, 90%, 1h 30m screen
@6 hrs, 76%, 3h screen
@8 hrs, 74%, 3h 50m screen
@11.5hrs, 65%, 5h 10m screen
@26 hrs, 38%, 8h 30m screen
@28 hrs, 32%, 9h screen
4/10 - still going strong - this is when I wrote this review

4/8 Mon
@24.5 hrs, 38%, 6h 20m screen
@28 hrs, 22%, 7h 45m screen
@30.5 hrs, 18%, 8h 15m screen
@31.5 hrs, 18%, 8h 25m screen
@34 hrs, 10%, 9h 20m screen
@35 hrs, 9%, 9h 30m screen
@36 hrs, 2%, 10h screen
Recharge #3
9:15 2% (Samsung wall charger)
10:15 37% (Samsung wall charger)
11:15 60% (Samsung wall charger)
12:15 70% (Samsung wall charger)
3:15 100% (Samsung wall charger)

4/6 Sat
@32.5 hrs, 33%, 7h 50m screen
@35.75 hrs, 5%, 10h screen
@36 hrs, 2%, 10h 30m screen
Recharge #2
12:15 2% (Samsung wall charger)
1:30 44% (Samsung wall charger)
7:00 100% (Samsung wall charger)

4/5 Fri
Off charger at 12:30a, 100%

4/4 Thurs
@27 hrs, 37%, 7h 32m screen
@30 hrs, 15%, 9h screen
@32 hrs, 2%, 11h screen
Recharge #1
3:40p-5:00 44% (Samsung wall charger)
5:00p-5:50 56% (car charger)
5:50p-7:10 75% (Samsung wall charger)
7:10p-10:00 100% (Samsung wall charger)

4/3 Wed
@9 hrs, 72%, 3h 45m screen
@13 hrs, 50%, 5h 40m screen