[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littlewierdo:
You went out of your way to say that you stopped reading my post. So I went out of my way to say I wasnt interested in yours.

Seriously, if you want to have an intelligent conversation, lets have at it. But if you want to make statements like 'I stopped reading your post after blah blah blah', Im not going to waste my time.

This all boils down to two things - battery size and optimization. I brought up Apple because they do the ultimate optimization both on hardware AND software (as well they should, they are the only company that truly develops everything in-house).

Make all the arguments you want, throw a 7000 mah battery into the Note and you are going to get the same battery life (give or take maybe an hour) as the Ipad (which by the way is considered to have 'amazing battery life').

Compare the Gtablet made by Samsung who basically puts the same size battery in their tablet as Apple does in the Ipad, yet, the Gtablet doesnt offer anything remotely close to what the Ipad is giving in regards to battery life. Why? The Gtablets' software/software is not very well optimized.

So if you want to significantly improve your battery life, spring for a good extended battery, suck up all the negatives it brings (thicker, heavier, longer to charge, typically around $100, etc) and deal with it.

My 5000 mah extended battery on the Note is giving me 7+ hours of screen on time with all the radios on and the screen brightness set to stock minimum (tested by streaming the EXTENDED editions of the Lord of the Rings movies back to back, my phone shut down at the start of the third movie). If I had a 7000 mah battery, I can only estimate (since we dont actually have one on the market) a ~40% improvement to 10+ hours.

The Note's only major flaw (as with just about any current Android cell phone on the market) is the battery capacity. Throw a bigger battery in and you'll improve that. If you cant deal with a bigger battery, then dont ***** about poor battery life. You have options, utilize them.

---------- Post added at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:17 PM ----------

I have a small correction, I just looked at my wall charger and it is a 2.1 amp charger, not a 3 amp charger.

But even with the stock 1 amp charger that comes with the phone, it should charge in 2.5 hours with the phone powered down. With the phone on, add your normal battery loss during the duration of the 2.5 hours to the charge time. So, if your phone typically goes from 100% to 80% in 2.5 hours (which I might add would be insanely fast), you need to add .5 hours to the charge time. Worse case scenario, the wall charger should charge in 3 hours with the phone on.

Mine charges in just about 1 hour (when using the stock battery) but mine is never completely dead either (usually 30% battery left) using the 2.1 Amp charger that was originally for one of my other tablets lying around the house.

If you are using your PC to charge your phone, dont. Use the wall charger the phone came with, it will charge twice as fast (USB outputs on a PC/Mac put out 500 mA, the wall charger puts out 1000 mA (or 1 Amp). If its taking 5 hours plus, you are using your USB ports to charge, not the wall charger.