Anyone use WiFi?

[aughsum]

A curious question for the OP. You did mention above that you can go about a week before needing to charge the phone without using wifi, and that you are worried about battery drain using wifi.

So my question...is there a hardship of some sort with your situation where charging the phone sooner than once a week is a bad or inconvenient thing? It seems quirky to me that you seem worried about earlier charge times.

Have you tried a period leaving your wifi on with no change in your user habits and seen what your charge need is then? What would you consider a no deal charge time? Once a day, once every two days?

Just curious questions as your running on a different paradim (sp?) than I am.

It isn't that big of a deal.. I just come from ~6 years of windows mobile.. so used to dealing with awful battery life that I don't really have to think/worry about my battery with the iphone.. especially the IP4.

I don't really care about the "using a full cycle on a partial charge" because this battery shouldnt start degrading until well-after i get the next iphone next june.

its just not a big deal.. I plug in at work every once in a while when I want to put some music onto it or to install apps that I've downloaded on itunes and need to sync, so it will get a little charge during that. usually the only full charge i give it is on sunday night (if i take my macbook home for the weekend) or monday morning (if i dont).. by the end of the weekend i'm usually running low since i dont have a computer at home and i dont make regular use of the outlet/usb cable

There are, of course, exceptions.. drunken phone calls, etc, but i just try get out and do stuff and not to live off of my phone/laptop/ipad..

 

[aughsum]

Well, I thought I was doing awesome when I made it a little over 2 days standby and 7 hours usage on my iPhone4.

I would love to see a screenshot of your usage page. Its Thursday, so if you only charge once a week, it should be pretty high up there by now.

I keep WIFI on all the time, for pretty much all the other reasons posted. I'm around it most of the time, its faster, uses less battery for data and does not count against my data cap with ATT. Can't see any downside there. Now, sometimes if I'm travelling or know that absolutely I will not be around WIF for a few days and I need MAX battery life, I will turn it off, but otherwise I always keep it on and always jump on free networks whenever I can.

i just synced a few ebooks to it to it says 19 mins right now.. but remind me and ill post one later

 

[lennyGG]

This is NOT true in iOS 4.0 and newer.

Wi-Fi is not turned off unless YOU turn it off.

How do we know?

When I turn it on, I see the transition from 3G to WIFI in 0.3 sec.

I think this is the sign that Wifi goes off when sleeping.

 

[JohnnyQuest]

Text messaging.

Yea, learned that from the responses already.

If the primary function of your iPhone is to text, why even own one? I mean, you're talking about how you don't use your iPhone for tasks your Mac can do, so what do you use it for? If all you use it for is texting, why not get something more affordable? Not instigating or anything, just genuinely curious.

 

[Chunkycat]

nah that's about right.. I never talk on the phone at all but I do a lot of texting..

I don't use it at all when I'm at work, other than to respond to texts.. everything else is done on the macbook... I don't use it at all at home, other then to respond to texts.. everything else is done on the iPad.

it's running caldav/carddav and polling 2 inboxes.. maybe twice a week if people call me (which they know not to do) or if i get lost (car doesn't have gps)

Hmm... You don't talk on the iPhone, you don't use it at work, you don't use it at home. You said in one of your post you don't play games... Why do you have one then? You don't need an iPhone just for texting. It's somewhat of a waste when you buy an expensive device and pay for data, voice, messaging plans for it and don't really make a good use of its capabilities.
Interesting.

With regard to your argument here about wifi, yes, I use it too at home. Even with my laptop in front of me, I have lots of things that are on my iPhone and wifi is much faster.

If the primary function of your iPhone is to text, why even own one? I mean, you're talking about how you don't use your iPhone for tasks your Mac can do, so what do you use it for? If all you use it for is texting, why not get something more affordable? Not instigating or anything, just genuinely curious.

+1 You're reading my mind here.

 

[aughsum]

If the primary function of your iPhone is to text, why even own one? I mean, you're talking about how you don't use your iPhone for tasks your Mac can do, so what do you use it for? If all you use it for is texting, why not get something more affordable? Not instigating or anything, just genuinely curious.

Work pays for it.

There are also those times when I'm not at home or work....

 

[wineandcarbs]

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I actually never use wifi and have it turned off. The only time I have access to free wifi is when I'm at home, in which case any major browsing or downloading is done on my home computer.