Hi all,
it is more than week i got a new battery. It is 1600mAh Li-on battery. I have purchased it via Ebay and now Im able to share my experiences with you.
At first I have to say, it was costed only AU $7.49 plus $6.71 shipping, so nothing extreme.
Ok, now I want to tell, it seems to be much more value to have 1600mAh battery instead of original 1230 mAh. Yes, it is true, but only a half. In the standby mode 1600mAh battery keeps life little bit longer than original one. But when you start use your device for playing games, sending e-mails or surfing on internet the battery life rapidly goes down. It can be comparable with original 1230mAh, but in my opinion the original battery has little bit longer life when you are using your device hard.
Setting of device was: 20% backlight status (I think it is enought to read in normal daylight), I was permanently connected to the internet via Edge. I played games around 2 hours per day, I used device´s wi-fi router round 1 hour. I sent 5 e-mails per day and made calls avg for 15 minutes/day, I browsed internet avg 2 hours/day. So as u can see it was quite frequent use of device per day.
I tried to use both of batteries the same way. Now I can responsibly say, buying the 1600mAh is not a bad idea, but after my experiences it is not necessary.For those who use their devices only sometimes it can be right way how to keep battery life on higher level. Truly I think there is nobody who is using this huge communicator like a normal cell phone. Calling and sending messages is on the last place in my case. So after 1 1/2week of using 1600 mh battery I am considering return to original one.
I hope the informations will be useful for you.
Regards
Bercy