Holy cow was that an understatement.
I'm sitting at 8h 56m usage, 2d 3h standby and just hit 50% on my battery. It was plugged into my computer for approx 10mins doing a sync, that's it. Went up 1%.
So yeah, I'm pretty damn impressed!
Yeah, battery life is excellent for me. Of course, my iPad Air is from the "good battery" lot number/factory.
Could you explain what you mean by "good battery" lot number?
I realize but I don't care. I'm expecting the retina Mini to have similar battery life to the iPad 3. As long as it can manage that, I won't be disappointed.Coming from the Mini the battery is incredible. I would usually get around 8 hours on the mini, with the Air I get around 12-13. To be honest I am expecting many people to be disappointed in the Retina Mini's battery life, as it is one thing many people haven't considered in switching to the smaller size.
I realize but I don't care. I'm expecting the retina Mini to have similar battery life to the iPad 3. As long as it can manage that, I won't be disappointed.
Coming from the Mini the battery is incredible. I would usually get around 8 hours on the mini, with the Air I get around 12-13. To be honest I am expecting many people to be disappointed in the Retina Mini's battery life, as it is one thing many people haven't considered in switching to the smaller size.
In fairness, there are plenty of crazy people on here, too, that can't see any reason for the Mini to exist.Oh it won't be bad, surely close to 8-9 hours, but there are just crazy people on here that can't see any reason for the Air to exist. But they are completely different devices in terms of how you use them.
2 days, 1 hour of standby
7 hours, 21 minutes of usage
30% still to go!
Mostly on wifi, but some on LTE.
my 7+ hours of usage consisted mostly of graphics-intensive gaming, like Asphalt 8, Infinity Blade 3, Nova 3.
VERY impressed with the battery life. A very nice change coming back to iOS after using the Nexus 7 (2013). The Nexus 7 is a fantastic device, but run the same graphics-intensive games and you're going to run out in just a few hours.
iDevices consistently have better "usable" battery-life. I'm not going to be watching a video for 10 hours straight, I'm going to be doing lots of different things, and the iPads have always met my expectations or exceeded it. The iPad Air definitely has exceeded my battery life expectation thus far.
Battery is incredible..