Buy a battery case. If they have a low cost iPhone 5, then the total package should be reasonable.
No, I want a phone that can last a day on it's own. I really don't like battery cases, you forget them to bring along, and it's just more stuff to carry around. Back in the 80ties I had no problems with using all kind of add-ons but in this century I expect devises to work proper. The only add-ons I like and those I'm using are truly big hardware "add-ons" like external RAID systems or render farm technologies.
24 hour battery life on paper is useless. You can charge your phone while you sleep you know. :-D
That's entirely besides the point. Companies, including Apple, advertise with battery life but in reality, that is the world called earth where I as a human being actually life on, phones don't last as the advertisements state. Only if you put everything off and use your iPhone only for calling then you get close to what the advertisements are stating. Yes, Apple does say that when using music on it while running using GPS software etc will drain battery life more then when not using anything. So far for Vulcan Logic here, but it's a smart phone. A smart phone should, i.m.h.o. go along using all kinds of stuff on it during the day and then, only then, when going to sleep you can charge it.
In your scenario you can't. The battery life will be gone hours before you go to bad and no, I'm not suffering from insomnia.
It is more important to get say... a 12 hour solid battery life, and a better spec.
Nope, it's not, it's just a matter of taste. Technically companies can make an phone that's reaches the power of a laptop these days. Not yet but each year smart phones getting more powerful. I never want a iPhone where I will actually work on it. It's simply not do-able for me as an animator and designer together with our company. We need big screens and powerful machines. Read powerful, so no slim good looking iMac but Power with a capital P. They way I look at devices is probably different then you. I don't give a *beep* how a computer looks like, it should be powerful in the first place and handy for usage. If it shines, has diamonds on it, I don't give a *beep*. For smart phones it's different i.m.h.o. they need to be tiny, when Apple comes out with bigger screen size iPhones, and they will!, I'll not buy those. The only reason why Apple will come up with bigger screen sizes iPhones is NOT because it's within Apple's grand mad up philosophical vision but it's because of 'popular by demand'. Apple is loosing ground big time, both on marketshare and on popularity when looking at the smart phone market world wide and 'that's' the only reason why Apple gives in, making plastic iPhones and pretty soon with bigger screen sizes. But I'm not going to make a phone call with a tennis racket size hanging on my ear so everyone can notice how big my phone is; freud would understand that sentence....
A phone should be small, durable, and not to be seen as some kind of replacement for serious work when it comes to old fashion drawing capabilities and doing post production movie work on it.
Apple need to stay focus on whatever its vision is. I have a feeling their final goal is not a cellphone. iPhones and iPads are more and more like an all-in-one computer.
That only proofs my point that smartphones should be able to last working day to make use of it's possibilities without having to worry about battery life. And Apple's "vision" is just what the market is shouting for, just as any other company tries to translate the need among customers into hardware and/or software.
But they need to execute their strategies for growth markets quickly and steadily.
They are all ready doing so. You really think Apple has no plan to tackle the ongoing spiral downwards when it comes to popularity and demand for their products? Why you think Apple comes with plastic cheap iPhones and larger screens?
They will have to show good progress. But then again, I have seen friends heading towards Android, and then come back again. So in the long run, it's more important to build the ecosystem in a solid manner rather than hype one phone with empty marketing speak after another.
Those are empty words, sorry for saying. Keep on shouting this and you'll end up being on the bottom of the market when it comes to selling products. I suspect that you're an Apple fanboy which is ok with me, don't worry, but I know many many people that have switch to Android and don't think of going back. Why? Because many smartphone's out there can do exactly the same things as the iPhone can, some can do even way more for less money. Only Apple fans refuge to accept those facts.
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I'm a Apple fan myself, but I'm not a dogmatic fan so to speak. I'm able to see the good results made by other companies and the reasonable arguments why people don't buy Apple products any longer. I don't go along with the hallelujah Apple is the best mantra simply because it's not the reality these days.
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I Still haven't bought a smatphone for that reason. I would have to charge both more than twice a day to give fit my usage. In a while I spent most of the time charging, meaning I loose portablity which defeats the purposes of those products.
Not to mention that every type of battery looses its capacity to fully charge over cycles, altough in the different ways, but they do, even if you follow the correct procedure to charge. Thus, portabilty over time decreases.
Bottomline: Moblie needs (more) time.
So true.
