Sometimes its not a good idea to trust what the booklet says about your cellphone and its battery life. My original cell phone which I had purchased...late in November of '08 had great batterylife, considering the applications and usage. 'Twas a Palm Centro, red, very nice phone at that for what I've used, and since it used the Palm OS platform, something I've been using for some time now beforehand it was an easy transition. Then around late July the screen had hit its point to a white-out screen. I could turn it on, try what I could to remember what buttons did what and what functions were where, I could call someone using it, but I couldn't see who was calling me back, or see any messages when I had it. So, early August I had it under warranty under Sprint, got a new Palm Centro, with the warning of "Color Selection is random", they sent one that's Berry, BERRY [link] fourth from the left, BERRY. No biggie there. Reloaded all my apps, reset all my settings I had from my previous Centro, which was easily done, synchronize it with my computer, and bam, back and running in less than 15 minutes not including the charge. Took it to the store to get it activated, went back home and slept for the rest of the night with it on the charger.

A hardly two months later (Actually, just about two weeks ago), my battery life only held onto a charge of about 8 hours. My thinking, this can't be right...I've been holding a charge for about 3 days without having to plug in...what could be happening now? So I let it discharge completely until the battery was completely drained, then recharged it back to normal. Battery was normal again, 3 day charge, until it did it again, and the max charge was again lost within 8 hours, this time for days straight after discharging and recharging. With that, went to the Sprint store, got my phone replaced, but no battery came with the new phone, which is odd because I knew it was a battery problem, and not the phone.

Strange, amiriet?

Went back with the brand new phone (again, Berry, SO MUCH FOR RANDOM COLOR -- Pbbbt, Jog on.) the next day after I got off work at the Sprint store, they sent me ANOTHER phone, this time WITH a battery. Got it, charged it after I got it activated, and gave it a few days to see if it would reoccur again. Not even 48 hours the battery only held a 10 hour charge.

What I didn't understand, is that under the same exact settings on my Centros, with the internet going and email constantly being checked every 1~2 hours, using it periodically to make a call or surf the web off it, the original one still kept a three day charge while these, THREE of them couldn't even handle 8~10 hours of non/normal usage. (Seriously, I wake up this morning to unplug my cellphone from its charger around 10 am at 12 noon the battery was at 80%, and I didn't even USE the cellphone.)

Called the Customer Service Reps, and they're willing to send me another phone, this time the Blackberry Tour which I just ordered today around 2pm. Perhaps this'll let me have a decent chance of the use of another phone, different OS, just something differnt I guess. Though I still love the Centro and its almost-simplistic setup and almost infinite applications (There's like...thousands, some do the same thing the other does, but still), its a freaking lot. Just hoping I have the luck of having no problems like I did my first Centro with my Blackberry. Never had one, though seen it a lot at work from Co-Workers, so it should be an interesting experience.

Note, I don't want to dissuade anyone that had their eye on a Palm Centro, it was awesome, but my experience with Sprint sending what they called "Over-and-Beyond" repaired/refurbished stuff is what got me on edge. Other than that, the service was more than I had expected, at the store and on the phone, quickly got me in and out within a matter of minutes with what I wanted, and superb customer service. Kudos to them.

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