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iPhone 4S less battery than the 4?

It's a "bigger" battery. But for some reason (Siri? A5? Typo?) the standby time is lower.
 
IMO standby time is reduced due to extra functions of iOS 5 like location based reminders, find my iphone, photostream etc. These are all processes that will be running in the background. I'm assuming the iphone 4 with iOS5 will have a reduced battery life too.
 
d0ster said:
IMO standby time is reduced due to extra functions of iOS 5 like location based reminders, find my iphone, photostream etc. These are all processes that will be running in the background. I'm assuming the iphone 4 with iOS5 will have a reduced battery life too.
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but standby means these things are turned off
 
tajam said:
but standby means these things are turned off
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Does it? I thought standby meant you weren't using the phone but it was on and running. Meaning that multitasking, notifications, etc. were all still active in the background...
 
A friend and I were just talking about this. Bet location services (for SIRI) has alot to do with it.
 
RafaelT said:
This has been discussed numerous times... try a little bit of searching.
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I searched for threads with "4s battery life" and saw only a few threads on the topic, none with more than 5 or 6 comments. Mind you I am not the OP, but if it bothers you that they didn't search, so be it. Telling them to search probably isn't going to change their ways. The same way honking or flashing your brights at a car who cuts you off (or something equally annoying) isn't going to make them a more considerate driver.
 
djrod said:
I was looking the iPhone comparison in Apple's web and I've found this:

Battery Life Standby iPhone 4S 200hours
Battery Life Standby iPhone 4 300hours

http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/

100 hours less of standby???

:eek::confused:
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Right, and you actually got 300 hours of standby out of your iPhone 4? Those numbers are meaningless. If you have read up, you would know that in standby it uses a bit more juice, but lots of other things while in use are more efficient in the 4S.
 
previous probably old

I think the previous number for the iphone 4, but with IOS 5, is probably going to change no? Although, the new iphone 4s uses a different gps chip and setup, so it could be that the poling IS changing and really puts a hit on the device.
 
Maybe it's Sirir as others ahve posted here? I am just curious what ios 5 will do to my IP 4's battery life. It is pretty good now but I can see it going down a bit if I turn all the new cloud based or "find my friend/stalker" :p options on.
 
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