The iPhone 3G battery life debate

By Dan Jones in Reader

Posted in iPhone, Apple on August 20, 2008 at 10:23 am

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I’ve posted about this before in comments to this post, but I think it deserves a seperate update post:

1 month and a few weeks in, I’m finding the iPhone 3G battery life to still be sufficient for what I use my phone for. There is, however, noticible difference in battery left at end of day if I don’t micromanage (ie turn off/on) the relevant chipsets on the phone. My major gripe is there is no Office/Work/etc profiles to control what is turned on… Doing it manually can be a pain. Right now I have the below setup:

At home: Need Bluetooth, Wifi on, and 3g off (non 3g area)

At office/travelling on train: Need Wifi off, BT off, 3g on

In car: BT on, 3g off, wifi off

Providing I change settings as above, in my usage - yesterday I got (starting coming off charge at 6:30am):

1. 1.5-2 hours of mp3 playback (during half of this was also surfing web on train (mix of 2g/3g)
2. 1 hour of websurfing and email (I have 2 email accounts, one push, one checking hourly) via 3g
3. One 2 hour phone call (2g)

At end of day (midnight), I still had ~ 40% of the battery free and

Rated: 50% (2 votes)

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