TESTED: iPhone 5 web browsing battery life horrible

[darster]

Of course, when I browse, I like to browse for 200 minutes a day. Good Lord! Are these real world tests? No. If you are browsing 200 minutes a day on a cell phone, you have serious issues.

 

[MsvSpaz]

I have had an HTC One X for one month which is currently in for repair and purchased the iPhone 5 yesterday. The browsing time on the HTC would be lucky to be one third of the 5 even on low brightness.

 

[MRX51]

Well, this sold it for me. I'm gonna take my new iPhone 5 back to Verizon tomorrow and demand a Galaxy S3.

If I can't browse intraweb stuff for an extra 159 minutes at max brightness, I just don't see the point in living.

Just want to give a big shout-out to the Good Samaritans at Which? for bringing this to the attention of the masses so that we can all repent from our depraved iPhone existences.

 

[duneriderltr450]

Well, this sold it for me. I'm gonna take my new iPhone 5 back to Verizon tomorrow and demand a Galaxy S3.

If I can't browse intraweb stuff for an extra 159 minutes at max brightness, I just don't see the point in living.

Just want to give a big shout-out to the Good Samaritans at Which? for bringing this to the attention of the masses so that we can all repent from our depraved iPhone existences.

 

[ZipZap]

It says max brightness to "give a fair and realistic estimate of the battery life users will experience in every day use"

I say it is more likely "to make sure the iPhone battery drains as fast as possible in comparison to other phones which don't get as bright as the iPhone"

I don't know many if any people who use max brightness in every day use on their iPhone

It gives a worst case estimate. And why would anyone test the IP5 on 3G? Its a 4G LTE phone.

 

[aneftp]

It gives a worst case estimate. And why would anyone test the IP5 on 3G? Its a 4G LTE phone.

Cause LTE isn't available in many parts of the world. It's a UK article. Don't think the UK's LTE networks are as vast as Verizon's USA LTE network that already covers 225-250 million people.

Anyways. I don't know what the authors are smoking. Cause 200 minutes web browsing (that's 3 hours 20 minutes) for iPhone 5 or even iPhone 4S is very low.

I guess they claim u need to jack up the brightness to max to conduct the test. Having owned an S3. The S3 is not bright even at highest levels. Samsung did this on purpose to maintain battery life.