phones with best battery life?

[Guest psychobubble]

hi,

planning to move into android world soon, am currently using a Sony Ericsson K800i which used to have a pretty good battery life... even now, I can leave it on standby for ~ 3/4 days without charging... and at it's peak i got 2hrs+ of talk time out of it. are there any comparable android phones? i know the cpu is doing more so more more battery required, but if i switch off all background apps and use maximu battery saving features, are there any that would match the K800i? (especially interested in budget models) thanks.

[Guest JokerNJ]

If you're in the UK, you could do worse than the Orange San Francisco. £99 +£10 top up.

If you don't like Orange, don't worry as it can be unlocked for £4 and has stock Android 2.1 as well as an Orange skin.

With removal of the Orange bloatware (root, remove and unroot), keeping wifi off, the screen on auto-adjust, Facebook, Twitter & RSS on 2 hour updates and push GMail on, I can get 2 days OK. I don't switch off at night either.

Thats with maybe a couple of dozen emails, maybe a dozen or so texts and 30 mins talktime.

If you look on the device specific forums, the San Francisco is near the bottom (also know as the ZTE Blade).