Here's the only correct answer you'll get...
It depends. (Actually, I edited this since Wildman always has great answers, this time is no exception. But this is mostly to make a point...LOL)
There are two things at play here with regard to battery life. The first issue is how the phone is used. The second one is how important are the Droid X's features to you and how much are you willing to put up with in order to use those features.
We'll tackle the first issue...well...first, I guess, why not....
Battery life and what affects it has been discussed ad nauseum around here. One big thing that doesn't come up a lot is the fact that the less signal strength the phone has to work with, the more battery consumption will occur. If I work at home, where I have a full signal, I can get roughly 36 hours of battery life. I check email several times an hour, use the phone (it's all I have, no landlines in my life), and surf the net some. Following the same usage patterns at the shop (where I get a steady single bar of signal), I can get almost 12-14 hours of battery life. I put the battery on the mobile charger during the ride home from work to get through the evening before bedtime. If you don't check email very often, use location-based services (weather radar, google searches, google maps, or talk very much, it's conceivable to get that 36 hours and maybe even more. It just depends (there's that phrase again). Regardless of what I do where, I charge the phone every night. Without fail. Period.
The second issue has to do with what the phone is worth to you and how much trouble are you willing to endure in order to enjoy the benefits of this fantastic phone. Only you can decide this, no else can, and I don't even care to, so there...LOL Seriously, if you can't be bothered with having a car charger or two handy and two home chargers, one for home, one for work, maybe even another one in your bag or purse or whatever as a spare, and putting the phone on a charger at least once a day, sometimes twice, then the Droid X probably isn't for you. I can't think of any other smartphone that would be, but again, that's for you to decide.
(And someone is gonna say this, so it might as well be me...If you depend on the ability to charge the phone via USB on a regular basis, then the Droid X is MOST CERTAINLY NOT FOR YOU!!...) Yeah, I couldn't resist...
Okay, from my perspective (and I consider myself a power user, whatever the hell that means these days), the X, with its big screen, hotspot feature, and general coolness, it's worth every bit of the little bit of trouble I go through to keep it charged and ready. It's first phone I've owned in years that I haven't wanted to toss into a cowfield after a few weeks or months of using it (including and especially iPhones). And another thing...I didn't qualify for a phone upgrade at the time, so I paid full no-contract price for mine.
But....it still depends...on you.
Geri O
Nicely worded gerio, I was going to respond in more details in last post but I was repling on the fly from my phone, and replying in long form on the device can me a bit much when I was also on way to work and I dont practice texting and driving..
I'll explain. I just got the extended battery (and the supplied cover) as offered on the Verizon website, I love the extra battery capacity. However, it has screwed up the use of my case & holster combo that I was really happy with. You MUST use the cover that comes with the extended battery because, as Wildman pointed out to me, using the regular cover (which will fit rather tightly) can be bad for the screen over time because of the pressure on the back from the standard cover.
So now, I've gone to using the fiber cover offered by Verizon and an extra-large pouch with a belt-clip, or I just put the phone in my pocket. But using the extended battery has been worth the extra trouble (see a recurring theme here?...
)Geri O
