Why are you people so worked up about battery life?

[tallyho]

^ what he said. Some people are really being unreasonable here - yes, you can spend 4 or 5 hours playing on games, browsing the app store, watching movies on your itunes, locating yourself on Google Maps...and then the battery will run out.
I'm with the people who say that if you use the phone more realistically (yes some web-browsing, email, listen to some tunes on your way to work, make a few calls, send a few texts) then you will get at least a day's use from it. In another thread some people are posting their usage screens that prove this. I've only had my iPhone since yesterday and have not had a problem with running out of battery yet. From what others say, the battery will actually improve after a few charges. And for £15-£20 you can buy a supplementary battery pack...

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

...not trying to pass judgement but logic dictates ...

They don't get that concept.

Slim Phone
3G wireless
Large Screen

Battery life as good as other 3G phones=BE HAPPY

 

[BongoBanger]

Again, you don't by a Lamborghini and complain about the mileage, so stop buying a 3G phone and thinking it should last far longer than any other 3G phone on the face of planet.

Well yeah, but if you run out of fuel for your Lamborghini away from a gas station you can always top it up from an emergency can. Unfortunately Apple's Lamborghini doesn't have one.

Although it's a moot point - the iPhone is clearly an urban phone and should be able to be charged easily enough.

 

[estark]

I think the main reason you have so many uninformed people on battery life coming on here is that they haven't had a 3G smartphone before. I have. They expect it to get the battery life of their LG flip phone or something like that. They just haven't realized yet that there ARE tradeoffs with 3G technology and that Steve wasn't joking last year when he said that 3G is hugely power consuming.

Great: call everyone "uninformed" when you suffer from tunnel vision (oooh aaah I love all that is Apple). I had a Blackjack (3G) that got 1.5 to 2 days on a charge. I got email, I surfed the web some, listened to Audible books, and I used the phone alot. Oh and the phone was smaller than the iPhone.

Obviously as this person states: Steve said that 3G is hugely power consuming. If Apple understood that 3G and other services were going to be "hugely" draining, they should've compensated or at least explain that the battery in "real world" situations won't last a day without supplemental charging or Apple could just have made the phone slightly thicker. Hopefully if they hear that people aren't happy with battery life, they will try to compensate some with a software update.

I also hate to say that while the iPhone is probably the best all around smartphone, it isn't so far ahead that comparing it to a Lamborghini is ridiculous. That is unless we are all driving Ferarris to start with.

If Steve Jobs farted, I bet many of you would claim that it was the most exciting incense ever.

 

[spaceballl]

now, i also think there are some people who have just unrealistic expectations for the phone. i just don't understand how anyone can expect a phone (doesn't matter which one) to last all day without a charge if you are browsing internet, listening to music, and making calls in between all of that, and doing that fairly consistently all day and still expect the battery to be good at the end of the day? to put it in perspective, would your laptop handle that kind of a load? i don't think so, or any other device for that matter?

I stopped reading your post here... because - that's what the first gen iPhone did. So these "unrealistic" expectations were actually realized about a year ago.

 

[Warped1]

Great: call everyone "uninformed" when you suffer from tunnel vision (oooh aaah I love all that is Apple). I had a Blackjack (3G) that got 1.5 to 2 days on a charge. I got email, I surfed the web some, listened to Audible books, and I used the phone alot. Oh and the phone was smaller than the iPhone.

I can vouch for the Blackjack 3G comments above. I have one that I just replaced with the iphone 3g that I always left push mail from exchange on and the battery lasts 1 - 3 days for me depending how much talk time. During the week I typically charged it every night to be safe (even when full bar) but it always made it to Monday on Fridays charge. Oh, and I had two batteries for it if I ever needed to swap on the road but that rarely occured.

My iphone seems to have gotten better. I really think the culprit is GPS and poor reception that drains it. At home where my reception is terrible, the iphone seemed to just suck the battery fast even though I turned 3g off. My blackjack got better reception but not by much.

Overall I am still very happy with it. If they designed in a removable battery and a less smudgy back that doesnt feel like slimer was holding it, it would be about perfect for me. I suppose that will be the next rev to suck more money from me.

 

[pcorrado]

I can vouch for the Blackjack 3G comments above. I have one that I just replaced with the iphone 3g that I always left push mail from exchange on and the battery lasts 1 - 3 days for me depending how much talk time. During the week I typically charged it every night to be safe (even when full bar) but it always made it to Monday on Fridays charge. Oh, and I had two batteries for it if I ever needed to swap on the road but that rarely occured.

My iphone seems to have gotten better. I really think the culprit is GPS and poor reception that drains it. At home where my reception is terrible, the iphone seemed to just suck the battery fast even though I turned 3g off. My blackjack got better reception but not by much.

Overall I am still very happy with it. If they designed in a removable battery and a less smudgy back that doesn't feel like slimer was holding it, it would be about perfect for me. I suppose that will be the next rev to suck more money from me.

I think you hit what I have found to be the biggest problem here - reception, specifically when I have 3G turned on and I am in a area without 3G - most of where I go sadly - the battery gets sucked up like you wouldn't believe. Also I don't think the GPS turns off when you use it in Google maps, unless you click the locate me button to deselect it - even then I turned it. So the last couple of days I have been turning off 3g where reception is poor, kept location services, and after 17 hours (5 hours use - 2 were probably 3g surfing, 12 stand-by) - I had a about 25 percent battery left, which was where I was with the 2.5G iPhone

On a side note the other two 3G phones I had sucked up battery so quickly (because if the lack of reception in my area) it was ridiculous - I had an lg that got like 7 hours of stand-by and maybe 2 of talk - So I am pleased, i charge the phone every night and I do travel for work and anticipate no problems, especially since on the plane I will be in airplane and the charger is easy to travel with - and I am confident if I need it to last, i cant make by turning off GPS, 3G, and not playing apps/games/surfing

 

[AnotherLabRat]

I'm not complaining about battery life in general. I'm complaining about the fact that Apple seems to have outright lied about battery life/performance.

Again: My battery has been calibrated/optimized. I had a full charge. After 5-6 hours of music, 15 min of calls, 30 min of browsing via EDGE, 12 hours standby, and a couple texts my battery was depleted by 90%!!!

Simple 7th grade math tells me I should have been at no less than 60%, not 10%. So by this guage, Apple overstated battery performance by a factor of 2+. That seems pretty significant to me.

In fact, I'll charge full tonight and run ANOTHER test with just music playback. Perhaps I just have a faulty battery, but it sure seems like there are quite a few others that have the same problem as well.

 

[myemaildw]

I'm one of those people who keep their phones off most of the time and switch it on only to check text messages and make a phone call. So I wont be complaining about a battery life too much. But when I need to use my phone all day, then 5 hours battery life is a huge down side factor. iPhone battery lasts just like my MacBook battery life - just 5 hours maximum.
Final conclusion - battery needs major improvement. Hopefully Apple won't lie next time. I'll be checking it myself anyway because Apple cannot be trusted.