Comments on: Mugen Power 1550mAh / 3200mAh HTC Hero Battery Review

By: Stoyko

Stoyko — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:04:02 +0000

Hi can you tell me where to bye 3200mAh battery black color?
Thanks

By: Zakstudio » Une batterie monstrueuse pour votre HTC Hero

Zakstudio » Une batterie monstrueuse pour votre HTC Hero — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:02:08 +0000

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By: steve

steve — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:15:18 +0000

You could go for something in between the 2 – I picked up a 2200 mAh battery with back cover on ebay. Great battery life improvement and only slightly bulkier than the original

By: Z Jones

Z Jones — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:42:52 +0000

oh man i would love one of these! Hero FTW!!

By: John Howard

John Howard — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:53:11 +0000

I love my Hero and would just love it more if the battery would last longer, realy cool phone

By: nanestev

nanestev — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:33:50 +0000

This will make my Hero look more muscular and I’ll be glad if I have one of these sets.

By: usi

usi — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:12:51 +0000

Nice review.

By: Yves Capitaine

Yves Capitaine — Sun, 23 May 2010 04:10:41 +0000

Hello!
I have the Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2. When getting the new 4500mah battery, i want to know if i cqan fond the cover in the back of the phone. The one with the multiple holes in it.

By: Hero

Hero — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:10:06 +0000

Thanks for your feedback Zbig. I did think long and hard about how to test the battery, ideally it would be good if I could just loop a call until it died, but that wasn’t practical. I also thought of looping video, but I wanted to make use of the radio and other wireless parts of the phone. In the end, I just went for the real world approach. You’re right, it’s not scientific, but my mobile habits are pretty consistent on a day-today basis and thought at least gives an idea of outperformance.

By: Zbig

Zbig — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:36:49 +0000

Honestly, these tests’ results aren’t even 15 percent scientific. You can hardly call this a test at all. While the “I’ve just played some games and made some calls” approach may give you some very rough estimate of how much more capacity does te beefy one have, you absolutely shouldn’t come to any conclusions regarding the original 1350mAh vs. the 1550mAh one. Using your methodology, the Mugen Power 1550mAh may in reality have smaller capacity than the original one just as well. I’m not telling it has, just that this kind of test doesn’t prove otherwise in any way. If you want to get some real, comparable figures you could discharge the battery using the R/C hobby charger with the discharge function and some makeshift adapter which would give you the real mAh output. I’ve done this before and it’s the minimum to differentiate the “guess” from “test”. No offence, I believe in your most sincere intentions, but if you’re going to “test” the batteries which nominal capacities differ only by some 15% using the “done hour of this and a little of that” approach, just don’t do this at all, plesase, as all you can achive this way is confusion.