I don't know what everyone is complaining about.

[theromz]

Not everyone has the same usage, your usage might get you amazing battery life and someone elses could suck. Also signal makes a huge signal, before I was on Three (UK) and signal at work sucked, since moving too Vodafone my battery life has easily doubled. Live in dense area's like me in London means your phone works more to get signal.

 

[Haynzee]

I was the the one who started the Battery degradation thread, I know theres been many more too. At that time right after installing iOS 7 my battery life was shocking I could put the phone down doing nothing come back to it and 5 mins later it had lost 2% battery. The usage I was getting was about 4 hours with barely any standby, 6-12hours max and the phone would die. The worst was what the usage was for me it was music perhaps over bluetooth a few email checks maybe a photo or 2.

What I was complaining about the most was, it didn't used to be like that, it was fine before why did iOS 7 appear to kill it. Anyway to cut a long story short, I swapped the iPhone battery with a new one and have found 7.1 battery usage was great getting up to 10 hours usage with couple of days standby.

 

[rocat1997]

Had anyone tried those higher capacity batteries you can get on Ebay? Seems like a hoax since it's no bigger than the original one..

 

[Infinitewisdom]

There was a time where my friends that use competing phones were envious of my iPhones battery life. Those times are gone and for the price of an iPhone vs the material you get I'd expect a bit more the. 6-7 hours.

I feel like people rely on their phones more then they did when 6-7 hours was more then enough. The iPhone has come a long way since release, tons of new features and apps have been added. And when battery life could have been addressed without notice (larger battery) Apple opted for form over function.

This. The gains in software and hardware functionality have increased dramatically, but power efficiency has sputtered along. Given how much we all use our phones these days, 6-7 hours is not nearly enough. I'm hopeful for a Macbook Air-like jump to 10-12 hours of real world usage. That would be amazing for a phone.

 

[C DM]

This. The gains in software and hardware functionality have increased dramatically, but power efficiency has sputtered along. Given how much we all use our phones these days, 6-7 hours is not nearly enough. I'm hopeful for a Macbook Air-like jump to 10-12 hours of real world usage. That would be amazing for a phone.

Would that involve the battery being MacBook Air battery size as well?

 

[Bacong]

Would that involve the battery being MacBook Air battery size as well?

since a notebook requires much more power to function, no. That kind of jump might not yet be possible with the current battery technology, however.