By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Battery life, O2, iPhone, Apple on
Last week I was lucky enough to garner a iPhone 3G without having to have preordered via a chronically crippled website or by getting up at 4am to get to the front of a queue.
Instead I was invited by O2 to a one-on-one briefing with one of its device managers, - (a chap called Dominic), at the end of which I was handed an 8GB iPhone 3G to play with. Before you get too cheesed off at my jaminess, I was told it wasn
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Surprising, mine isn’t half as bad. Got mine Friday, and finally got switched on the phone piece on Sunday.
My tips are definitely turn it onto airplane mode on the tube - this absolutely kills the battery on a long underground journey… I lost 25% of the battery on a 60 min journey underground on Sunday.
Yesterday and Monday though, I charged overnight - as I left home at 7:30am , I disabled wifi (which I use @ home), then went to office. 30 min journey, ipod on throughout. At work, used handset for 2 hours during day using Activesync push email to test the device for work - thats 2 hours of using email on the phone… sent some 15 emails in that timeframe, and received around 30. I also browsed some personal websites at lunch. (this is as I’m at work and have a work mobile for work calls so phone calls were on that).
ipod on way home again 30 mins.
Once home wifi went on and I made a 2 hour voice call once home at 8pm-10pm, - and for periods of the call was using the wifi to surf the web. Only once I completed the call and was watching some TV on iplayer afterwards did I get the first 20% warning. For me, the iPhones certainly got a better battery life than the phone it replaces (the n73). The N73 needed 2 charges a day if I used video (slingplayer) on the way to the London office in the morning. I’ll see if this is the case when I’m London bound next week and watch videos off the internal storage.
Note that at home I’m in a 2g area (being countryside), work is a 3g area.. so the call in evening was a 2g call…
I too hope the battery lasts the 18 months being charged once a day (twice on a busy day). Apple are right though - switch off the services you don’t need when not using them - it helps a lot with the battery. Be nice if Apple had a profiles feature to allow a home, work etc setting to setup the phone for each location quicker - rather than the current manually disabling bluetooth & wifi when not in car.
Comment by - July 17, 2008 on 3:20 pm
Good point Dan about Airplane mode
Comment by Pecos Bill - July 18, 2008 on 7:55 pm
There are several third party batteries that you can plug in to the dock connector. http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/18/several-backup-batteries-can-extend-your-daily-iphone-3g-use
including one from the Netherlands
Comment by - July 21, 2008 on 11:43 am
Being a first time daily iPhone user I wasn’t aware of these. I’ll look into them. Thanks for the heads up.
Comment by CWilson - September 23, 2008 on 7:24 am
What I dont understand is why people are willing to jump through hoops to use a device where the battery is obviously woefully under specified. Why should you have to turn things off to extend use time? If I had a an iPhone I would want to use the features when and where I wanted, without worrying about whether the battery would last the day, and I think it unreasonable for Apple (or any smartphone manafacturer) to assume otherwise. I certainly dont expect to turn bits of my car off to enable it to complete its daily functions, why should I accept this from a phone? This appears to be another example of people being blinded by the bling, and leaving their rationality and critical faculties asleep, letting hype and the ad man do their thinking for them.
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