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Originally Posted by bubbatex
Or maybe my expectations were different? Saw this in my local paper this morning: IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life - Los Angeles Times
I have to say that my 3GS has the best battery of my previous 3 smartphones - Pre, Touch Pro, Q9c and Q. The Q9c was close or maybe a bit better with the hump-back battery, but hey, it was a Q9c with WM 6.1 Standard and limited functionality. I have had it for a week now and been through 5 or 6 full charging cycles. Maybe I don't use all of the "stuff" other iPhone users do - I don't use BT much, nor wifi since I have a good 3G signal. I use Exchange push and I browse on it and listen to some music, but I have not really taken it out and about the town with location services on. I watched a 2 hour movie on it last night and that only knocked about 20% of the battery out which was very impressive to me. I did have a 2 hour call yesterday and that drained about 30% of the battery (with BT also on), but that was typical for my Pre and the TP too.
Just throwing my 2 cents in..... |
People expect too much - for a multimedia device that has 3G you'll be hard pressed to find better battery life. Thing is the iPhone is so popular you have these people who come from normal no feature phones which have great battery life because they don't do anything... then they come to an iPhone and complain.
Now people who have used smart phones in the past such as HTC devices or other Windows Mobile phones know better and would not be complaining about the iPhones battery life.