oops, I meant non-soft key version in my post. Thats what I'm on and I get pretty poor battery life, even with Google Now turned off. I'f I understand correctly there were several improvements that were put in place in the latest version of the soft-key version that helped battery life. the nonsoft version just hasn't been updated yet with those improvements.what's poor battery for you?
i'm getting very good battery life on the soft-key versions i've tried.40+ hrs per charge where i got ~30 hrs on the old (non-HD) Arctic.
Bad battery for me is loosing about %5 battery per hour sitting here on my desk and not doing anything.