Now “power user” or not, people buy such machines expecting to get at least an office day’s work out of it, syncing their email, doing the occasional web lookup or tweet – perhaps even be so bold as to hook up to a local wifi-point and downloading a file. If you have to carry around all the equipment for recharging the thing all the time because it doesn’t last six hours, that kind of defeats the purpose of presenting it as a mobile device.

So far, I’ve recalibrated the battery gauge via the four-coloured screen, and I’m now running WMLongLife (with mixed results concerning its control of connectivity by background applications), I’ve decreased syncing frequencies across the board, dimmed the screen, but still the indications are not good – and that’s without the frequent phone calls and other stuff of a regular busy day.

I’ve heard stories about people managing – without special measures – to make their HD2 last a day or more, even with the use of internet services, syncing and so on, but for the life of me, I wouldn’t know how to do the same with *my* HD2. I’m starting to think that there may be some truth in the speculations about batches of faulty batteries.

Anybody here had similar experiences, and managed to resolve them (without buying a new battery; that would be cheating)?