Review: Seidio 1300mAh and 1600mAh Extended Batteries for your Treo 750

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Did you but become 3G in your area? Are you a big fan of push e-mail? Do you browse a lot on your 750? Chances are, if you have one you practise at least 2 of those 3 and are probably planning on holding onto your 750 for a little while, especially since the 750 just got its WM6 update and will soon get an update to six.1.

The Treo 750 by default comes with a 1200mAh battery that claims upwardly to iv hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby. This, of course, assumes that the phone is in GSM/EDGE mode since nosotros all know just how much 3G/UMTS can drain the battery when compared to GSM/Border. As a result several reviews of the 750 around the 'net highlight their disappointment in Palm for deciding on an even smaller battery than the Treo 700w/700p for the 750. You've probably seen the 1300mAh battery ($34.95) and 1600mAh battery ($49.95) extended batteries in the WMExperts store, only are they worth the money over just another OEM Palm bombardment? Click on to find out!

Usage

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I was stoked when I got my 750 from ATT. Phone call quality is amazingly clear on UMTS, push was faster on my telephone than on my desktop, and the fact that I could talk to someone while tethered or browsing on the phone was just icing on the block. What I didn't like, however, was how doing all of that causing my battery to go from full to null in a affair of mere hours. In my typical workday, I'd go home with my 750's battery at nearly 20-xxx%. This would usually be after xxx minutes to an hour of talk, EAS button enabled all day, and the occasional browsing and downloading of unlike files or PDF attachments all on the 3G/UMTS network. If I forced my phone to GSM, I could easily get away with about 50-60% at the cease of the mean solar day if not more, merely doggonnit I bought a 3G phone, I wanna use information technology on 3G!

This is when I turned to the extended batteries that Seidio made for the Treo 750. What I like virtually these batteries is that they're both OEM-sized so that they'll fit the 750 without calculation any extra majority. The 750 is already on the thicker or curvier side of smartphones these days, and then it really doesn't need to get any thicker. I first tried the 1300mAh battery, but I didn't actually encounter whatsoever discernible improvement in battery life. Then I tried the 1600mAh OEM sized battery, which claims a 33% increase in bombardment life, and I definitely noticed a marked increment in bombardment life in my daily routine. At the terminate of the day, I'd usually cease up with my battery around 50-60% instead of the paltry 20-30%.

Benchmark

To get some tangible numbers, I ran Spb Benchmark with all iii batteries from full to no charge with the telephone'southward radio turned off (to ensure there were no variations in wireless conditions), screen brightness turned all the style up, and auto close off disabled. Spb Criterion and so faux typical utilize and timed the bombardment until the final scrap was tuckered and the phone would no longer turn on until plugged in over again. As you can see in the chart, the results are very showing. While there isn't really a noticeable increase from 1200mAh to 1300mAh, in that location's a definite benefit when you jump to the 1600mAh bombardment. Why Palm didn't struggle to put their own 1600mAh into the 750 I can't say, but Seidio claims you become a 33% increment in bombardment life, and co-ordinate to my numbers information technology'due south true.

Decision

So exercise I recommend buying an Seidio Extended battery for your 750? Well, it depends. Personally, I don't feel the 1300mAh Seidio battery offers whatsoever tangible benefit to your Treo's bombardment life, but it unremarkably runs about $x-fifteen more than which doesn't seem similar a smart buy for me. If you're going to spend the coin, and yous're looking for longer battery life without actress bulk consider the Seidio 1600mAh OEM-sized battery ($49.95). The simply option you take to make is if the convenience of having a larger battery is worth the $49.95 the 1600mAh battery will cost you over the $19.95 of the 1200mAh Palm OEM battery.

Seidio 1300mAh Battery	Pros	OEM-sized, no extra bulk
Seidio 1300mAh Battery	Cons	Doesn't add considerable increase in life over OEM Battery Not worth the toll
Seidio 1600mAh Battery	Pros	OEM-sized, no actress bulk Delivers promised battery life increment No demand to swap batteries equally often
Seidio 1600mAh Battery	Cons	Toll may not be worth information technology because price of 1200mAh OEM battery