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tbobmccoy

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I've been posting, surfing, watching videos, playing games, etc for the last 7 or so hours and my battery life has only gone down to 80%. I am BLOWN AWAY by this iPad 2. So pleased I found it! Any other similar battery-life stories? Did anyone besides me think that the battery would be not as excellent as advertised or am I just being a bit silly?
 
Me me me !

I wanted to run it down to 0 to calibrate, used it a ton. 4 and a half days, probably 13 hours of use.

So much nicer to pick this up and carry it around the house than my 4.5 pound macbook 🙂
 
I have been pretty blown away too. Since the 4.3.1 update it has been even better. I noticed that running the battery down fully one time helped tremendously as well (yay reading the instructions).
 
I have been using my iPad 1 for about 3/4 hours downloading a huge number of apps with the screen very bright and has only gone down 14 or so percent. I updated to iOS 4.3.1 last night. Battery life is perfect
 
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To me it seems comparable to the first gen iPad. And that was great!
 
Great battery life for me

Used it yesterday for 6 hours straight doing lots of Internet browsing, downloads from app store and other light tasks; however, I used the time Warner app to watch an entire hour of tv live (part of the 6 hours) and still had 55% battery left.

This was after I downloaded 4.3.1.

Awesome!
 
Rah rah. Leading question much? Incredibly? I find it fine. Incredible, no. My iPad 1 was noticeably better, and still not incredible.
 
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Mine seems horrible compared to op. 9-4 moderate use. Was down to about 12%.

How do I recalibrate it? Run it down to zero? Full charge again?
 
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