Battery life status: now, and future prospects?

[kern707]

It has been on since 8am this morning, now 10:02pm, it says it has 48% charge,  I  did maybe 30 sms texts outgoing today, and one 10 minute phone call.
The newer Pine phones and new operating systems will probably do better, but I have not verified that as yet.

That's reassuring. Still a daily charge, but of course nothing will actually compare to an old feature phone's 1-2 weeks.

OF important note, the battery is easy to swap out and a replacement battery is available for about $10 on Ebay and Amazon.
  and Pine64 sells an external battery charger pretty cheap at their store.

Which is one of many reasons why I like this design! battery is dead ? just get a new compatible one and replace it...

As great as this is, personally it's less about longevity on the go, and more about reducing hassle. The more often I have to recharge it, the more I will ask myself "why not just use the Nokia then".
Although I suppose the wireless charging addon would actually be helpful here, especially since the replaceable batteries mean reducing their service life is not a big concern.

Well look, the Nokia brick phones (or any of their semi-smart phones) will always take any modern day smartphone with regarding to how long you can hold a charge on the battery, mainly because the smaller lower spec screens,  the relatively lower spec hardware, lack of additional sensors, GPS modules etc.. in them make them some serious energy savers. I still remember the days where my Nokia brick phone (BW screen, no WLAN, no GPS etc..) would get a full charge on Sunday, and then would survive until Saturday without much effort  on the other hand there wasn't much do with on that phone so It was used primarily for making  (short) calls and a sending a few maybe 3-5 short SMS texts per week.

Being able to replace the battery as easy as popping the faulty battery out and popping a new one in, without the need for any specialty service by an expensive "certified repair center" is a huge bonus in today's markets (where companies try to make their products impossible to service by their owners in order to push the customers to pay big bucks at their own repair centers), the right to repair is very important IMHO.

I also agree with you about wanting to reduce the hassle of having to charge your phone 3 times a day, but with any smartphone, no matter what brand or battery size - it depends on your usage. for an example: if my PinePhone is left alone with minimal usage it would last many hours before I need to plug it into a charger, but if I was fiddling with it for an hour, browsing the internet, downloading applications, opening various applications and fiddling with them etc.. the battery level would rather quickly go down from like say %84 down to %54 in less than two hours - but that is the same performance you get with most smartphones, since big back-lite screens and strong hardware will consume more power if you are a heavy user.

I would also ask, what Nokia phone do you exactly have? and what is your average usage profile ? and how many hours of usage are you getting from a single charge? that would be useful to try evaluate your question and give you more precise feedback.