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Battery Poll!!
- Thread starter Loonytik
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4-6 hours with 3G usage, app usage, and email.
With a 3G phone with a bright, large screen, 4-6 hours is completely acceptable. It's the price we pay, no, the price EVERY 3G phone pays, for having 3G technology. The battery life suffers. If you didn't know this, you should return it.
With a 3G phone with a bright, large screen, 4-6 hours is completely acceptable. It's the price we pay, no, the price EVERY 3G phone pays, for having 3G technology. The battery life suffers. If you didn't know this, you should return it.
More than 6 hours, but I dont know if mine counts. Im at work most of the day, so I dont play with it. After I leave work, its perm attached to my hand 
My bedtime (around 10-11 PM), its time to charge it up.
My bedtime (around 10-11 PM), its time to charge it up.
OMG i got my iPhone today...so i guess as 6 hours is the maximum...your telling me that i wont get a full day from my iPhone
That is shocking!!!!
6 straight hours. Not in your pocket for 6 hours. If you are on your phone for six straight hours during the course of a work day, barring some job exceptions, you need a new job.
It's a 3G phone
It has a bright, huge screen
It has GPS
It's thin
And people thought this was gonna get great battery life? You people need to get more tech savvy. The iPhone has quite good battery life against the competition.
Oh wow...these numbers are okay.
but, how do these compare with other similar phones...like the instinct?
Here ya go. I ran across this.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9992887-1.html?hhTest=1&tag=cnetfd.mt
Take from it what you will.
6+ hours with push and 3G enabled. It's really not that bad - and push doesn't make much of a difference (according to my testing I get about 10% shorter battery life with push enabled vs. fetching every 30 minutes - so really not much of a difference).
Yesterday it lasted 17 hours with 3G + push enabled at work during the day and EDGE + WiFi + Push enabled at work. That's much better than my HTC TyTN used to be.
Yesterday it lasted 17 hours with 3G + push enabled at work during the day and EDGE + WiFi + Push enabled at work. That's much better than my HTC TyTN used to be.
OMG i got my iPhone today...so i guess as 6 hours is the maximum...your telling me that i wont get a full day from my iPhone
That is shocking!!!!
My phone lasted 32 hours on a full charge with 8 hours of usage.
gps sucks down the battery pretty bad
turn off location services unless you need to use the gps.