iPhone 6 LTE Battery

[Smokey_Rasta_SA]

Hi Guys,

New to the forums so welcome me in

I have had my iPhone 6 64GB since early this year and absolutely loving it.

I have been primarily using 3G since its rather battery efficient compared to the LTE Bandwidth. I was thinking though, what is the use of having this technology if I am not going use it? Ridiculous ...

I quickly read two articles regarding the phones battery consumption when on LTE, they say that is pretty battery friendly than before thanks to new technologies and its on par with Wifi battery usage.

I want to know how true this is :/

I will be self evaluating it during the course of the week but i want to know from the Apple community,

Thanks
Nick

 

[3568358]

Using only 3G rather than LTE will NOT save you battery. LTE is extremely battery efficient. If anything, using only 3G will kill your battery faster for many non-obvious reasons, which would take long to get into so I'll stop there, haha. LTE is insanely fast and is about 99% as battery efficient as wifi.

 

[Smokey_Rasta_SA]

Using only 3G rather than LTE will NOT save you battery. LTE is extremely battery efficient. If anything, using only 3G will kill your battery faster for many non-obvious reasons, which would take long to get into so I'll stop there, haha. LTE is insanely fast and is about 99% as battery efficient as wifi.

Thanks for the information.

Wouldn't it be wiser to stay on 3G if your town hasn't got a substantial LTE Network in place? So ill constantly be switching between bandwidths, killing my battery further.

I would rather be on the speedy LTE since I get 60Mbps download and 10Mbps Upload

 

[emilioestevez]

3G keeps the radio active far longer since it takes longer to download the data to your device. 4G is pretty much instant and then the radio returns to normal.

 

[3568358]

3G keeps the radio active far longer since it takes longer to download the data to your device. 4G is pretty much instant and then the radio returns to normal.

exactly. IF you don't have LTE coverage your phone will use 3G and use LTE when available