Thats the iPhone 5C battery increase since 4.65% rounded up is 5% boost as stated in this article.
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Apple Boosts iPhone 5s Battery Capacity by 10%, iPhone 5c by 5% Over iPhone 5
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Thats the iPhone 5C battery increase since 4.65% rounded up is 5% boost as stated in this article.
I was really hoping they would say "all day" battery life.
Guess that's coming in iPhone 6.
Probably not, but all phone makers have no excuse for not having it given the Razr maxx has had it for a while now.
I thought I was a power user
Everyone talking about how there battery life sucks. I feel like I'm on my phone all the time (4s). I usually get a full day unless I'm streaming a lot of movies. Sometimes I will go two or three days without recharging.
Those days I'm usually doing something more fun than looking at my phone all the time.
Smart phones are like crack. Addictive.
While some people have legitimate business uses and are on their phone all day. I'd guess most people complaining about battery life should set down there phone and look around. Life is happening out there.
Everyone talking about how there battery life sucks. I feel like I'm on my phone all the time (4s). I usually get a full day unless I'm streaming a lot of movies. Sometimes I will go two or three days without recharging.
Those days I'm usually doing something more fun than looking at my phone all the time.
Smart phones are like crack. Addictive.
While some people have legitimate business uses and are on their phone all day. I'd guess most people complaining about battery life should set down there phone and look around. Life is happening out there.
I do
I charge my iPhone 5 in the late evening. It comes off charge at around midnight when I go to bed. It lasts all night (while not being used of course, but is powered on), it alarms several times to get me up. I use it all day at work for texts, email, etc. It does an average of 30 minutes or so of surfing. I can stream Pandora for an hour or two at work while I am working in the evening and it stays on all evening until going back on charge at around 10:00. It usually has 30-50% power left when I put it on charge. I have forgotten to charge it before and it will last the entire second night and next day at work if I don't do any more streaming but is usually below 10% when I get home from work. So yes I do believe that some get good battery life.
I charge my iPhone 5 in the late evening. It comes off charge at around midnight when I go to bed. It lasts all night (while not being used of course, but is powered on), it alarms several times to get me up. I use it all day at work for texts, email, etc. It does an average of 30 minutes or so of surfing. I can stream Pandora for an hour or two at work while I am working in the evening and it stays on all evening until going back on charge at around 10:00. It usually has 30-50% power left when I put it on charge. I have forgotten to charge it before and it will last the entire second night and next day at work if I don't do any more streaming but is usually below 10% when I get home from work. So yes I do believe that some get good battery life.
You get two days battery life put of your iPhone 5?????? You sir have a magical iPhone , never let that one go! Or actually use it
After a year of using my 5 and trying every imaginable suggestion for improving battery life, I've narrowed my problem down to one particular scenario: using iMessage constantly during my 1.5 hour commute in the evening. At that time, riding 7 miles on the bus and crossing through numerous 4G/LTE reception areas with my screen on and off constantly, my battery goes from about 80% to 35-40% during that hour and a half. My battery life trickles before and after that (usually on wifi, using iMessage much less), so my overall by the end of the day is usually 3.5 hours of usage with about 30% remaining. On days when I don't commute or I use iMessage more sparingly, I get significantly better usage.
I don't blame my iPhone 5 for it's battery life anymore. I blame the combination of iMessage while crossing through numerous 4G/LTE reception areas during my long commute. I wish that Apple would give us the option of turning off certain "live" functionality in iMessage, besides just sending read receipts or not. I would like to turn off receiving read receipts and more importantly not seeing when someone else is typing and them not seeing when I'm typing until messages are sent. I'm sure this constant live connection is a large part of the problem since other messaging apps I've used extensively don't cause the same effect on the battery, even back on the very first iPhone.
I don't blame my iPhone 5 for it's battery life anymore. I blame the combination of iMessage while crossing through numerous 4G/LTE reception areas during my long commute. I wish that Apple would give us the option of turning off certain "live" functionality in iMessage, besides just sending read receipts or not. I would like to turn off receiving read receipts and more importantly not seeing when someone else is typing and them not seeing when I'm typing until messages are sent. I'm sure this constant live connection is a large part of the problem since other messaging apps I've used extensively don't cause the same effect on the battery, even back on the very first iPhone.
What the hell are you people doing with your phones? I charge every day and a half. If I start a morning with a full charge, I can usually make it until noon the next day before it's near drained.
Turn your brightness down and turn off push. Your emails are probably not so important that you can't get by with a 15 minute fetch.
Turn your brightness down and turn off push. Your emails are probably not so important that you can't get by with a 15 minute fetch.
Can't Decide!!!
I have been following all the forums regarding the iPhone 5s. I am stuck with an iPhone 4. Should I upgrade to the iPhone 5s or should I wait a year? My upgrade will mean that I will be locked into my plan for 3 years.. Your opinions will be greatly appreciated!!!!
I have been following all the forums regarding the iPhone 5s. I am stuck with an iPhone 4. Should I upgrade to the iPhone 5s or should I wait a year? My upgrade will mean that I will be locked into my plan for 3 years.
. Your opinions will be greatly appreciated!!!!I have been following all the forums regarding the iPhone 5s. I am stuck with an iPhone 4. Should I upgrade to the iPhone 5s or should I wait a year? My upgrade will mean that I will be locked into my plan for 3 years.
Your 4 is liable to break soon. You've waited long enough. Just get it. You've skipped over so many generations of performance upgrades it's going to be like tech cocaine when you first turn it on.
wow talk about innovation!
does it have Thunderbolt now too
Is there a phone that does better with battery life? And does everything the iPhone does?
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So an improvement is now not an improvement? God the logic of you people gets better and better everyday.
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Just like google saying their phones last for 28 hours...
Even if they were inflating their numbers (which from my experiences they do not...including with their laptops) at least they're being more truthful than other smartphone makers...
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I've found the exact opposite. Battery life has gotten better and better. Maybe with the additional features in each generation you've been using your phone more...
You do realize that Apple doesn't develop the battery technology, right? All they can do is modify the hardware and software to make everything run more efficiently. And they do that in every new generation.
Apple doesn't produce the batteries. They buy them from manufactures. Just like they don't build their screens or have any involvement in their technological development.
These types of comments on MRs are so inane that it makes me wonder if they aren't coming from some Samsung PR machine in an attempt to slam Apple.
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You were laughing at them only improving by 10% even though its something they have no control over. Am I missing something here?
I got all day use on my iPhone 5 mixed usage mostly texting web browsing. So as long as I get the same or better battery life I am cool.
Either your phone is jailbroken, with some problematic packages installed, or you have some power-hungry VOIP software running (e.g. Viber, etc.).
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Accept the fact -- you ARE the minority. More battery life? Sure it is a good thing. But at the expense of the thickness given the current good-enough battery life? No, never. I don't want to be a weirdo again as I was in 2008 when my 1st edition iPhone looks like a big brick in my pocket and SO discernible to everyone.
Just check the sales number of the iPhone case with battery in them and you will see that you are absolutely the minority.
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I disagree. In fact, most people I know with iPhones have worse battery life than I do and I'm the only one registered on macrumors. It's not like we are encoding videos on our phones. We use it for social networking, pictures, phone calls, texts. Same as just about everyone else with an iPhone.
To be honest, it's true of everyone I know who has a smartphone. Frequent use in an area with a poor reception kills batterylife really fast. My wife has to charge her S3 twice a day because of it's poor battery life; while I ussually make it until bedtime before mine dies. I get over 9 hours use if I'm running on Wifi, but about 4 hours if I have to use 3G on my iPhone 5.
Also, all the research indicates that iPhone owners use their phone way more often than Android owners, thus giving them the impression that their battery life isn't as good.
Not to my experience. I used every model of iPhone.
I believe it's your usage pattern that made the difference, and you happen to made your usage pattern change around the time you got your iPhone 4S.
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Resist. Buy a used 5 and get a prepaid contract free plan. Signing away three years of high cost service is not a good idea. Do the math. Resist.
Moto Marketing, checkout Anandtech's review on battery life for the moto X. It's 5hours on 4G/LTE! wow...
http://anandtech.com/show/7235/moto-x-review/6