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`by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
`Posted in Smartphones
`When I first reviewed the iPhone I talked about its battery life as being borderline for the business traveler. Whenever
`I travel with the phone, it always needs a charge by the time my first dinner meeting rolls around. Steve Jobs
`originally proclaimed that battery life and chip size were both reasons that the first iPhone didn't have 3G support, the
`question is does the new iPhone offer 3G performance without the battery life penalty?
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`Unfortunately, as Apple doesn't design any of the chips or battery technology that goes into the iPhone, it doesn't
`really have much control over things like 3G battery life. And thus, the iPhone 3G suffers like any other smartphone
`when operating on a 3G network.
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`The test below is the same one I ran in the original iPhone review, in fact that iPhone and Blackjack data is taken
`straight from that review - the new data is obviously the iPhone 3G, operating in 3G mode. The battery life is
`expressed in minutes and the results are expectedly not very good:
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`At 197 minutes, the iPhone 3G can keep you browsing for a little over 3 hours before completing dying. That's with
`no additional phone calls or anything else going on in the background, just constant surfing. The problem is that this
`is a very realistic scenario for many users. If you're out of the house and stuck somewhere without a laptop, you'll
`want the speed of 3G but the battery life will mean that your surfing experience is almost half as long as it would be
`on Edge. Granted, you can load pages faster in the same amount of time, but you'd have to load pages around twice
`as fast on average to equal the same productivity.
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`In our 3G performance test from earlier this afternoon we found that while 3G can easily be up to 10x faster than
`Edge, the real world browsing performance will generally be significantly slower than that. Only our AnandTech
`loading test was able to perform at the required 2x speed to make the iPhone 3G, in 3G mode, more energy efficient
`than running it in Edge. The Facebook and Digg tests both weren't fast enough to balance out the additional power
`draw.
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`We'll be running more tests on the iPhone over the weekend, so stay tuned for more updates...
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`TripChill by alora222 on Monday, February 02, 2009
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`Try the TripChill iPhone travel assistant the next time you travel. Get real-time flight alerts, book
`hotel and car, view alternate flights, notify friends of travel status, manage your itinerary, and much
`more.
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`About TripChill by alora222 on Monday, February 02, 2009
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`Try the TripChill iPhone travel assistant the next time you travel. Get real-time flight alerts, book
`hotel and car, view alternate flights, notify friends of travel status, manage your itinerary, and much
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`Turn off things to boost battery power? by mrloon on Monday, July 28, 2008
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`I still cannot comprehend the "solution" to battery life is to turn basically all the features off. I did pick
`up an iPhone 3G, and regrettably am stuck with it. Had the phone on a complete full charge, called
`up and talked to a friend (local call) for about an hour and 10 mins, and I went from 100% charge to
`5% charge. The solution of "turn off options" is mute, being that with other 3G devices, I can have all
`options on and easily talk for over the 5 hour mark, and easily not have to run to a charger for a few
`days. The other option of having a charger in your car, in your house, in your boat with a goat, etc, is
`insane. What happens if I'm a commuter on a train, or air, where there is no option to charge. Say I
`just got into my car, drove to the train station to commute to the airport; in that scenario, I'd barely
`have power a few mins after stepping onto the train. Add the low battery performance, with an
`impossible keyboard (double dare any of the "oh it's easy to type on" folks try holding onto the rail in
`a subway and type a few sentences in anywhere close to the type on any physical QWERTY
`keboard), a GPS that has no GPS app yet (though one rumoured b TomTom which will probably cost
`more than just getting a TomTom physical device), no way to add your own ring tone except to buy
`from iTunes, no way to truly customize the sounds the device has (other than a few options for the
`ringer and for inbound mail), and a host of other faults, it's a toy, plain and simple. If you need a
`device that you can use over the course of a day without the device going through detox after an
`hour and needing a charge, get anything, I mean ANYTHING, but don't get an iPhone. Hey, if ya
`don't agree with me, and looking for an iPhone, I'll gladly ship you mine free long as you pay the
`stupid cancelling charge for removing the device from my bill. Maybe I'll even have to post up a
`YouTube video of me smashing the device with the head of a passing Mac user. So, in closing, yes,
`the phone is *that* bad, and calling it a phone is even an insult to the old days big box phone on a
`rope from Alpine and such.
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`More options? by Zoos on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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`I would really love to see a more thorough test of different settings... for example, most of the ones
`listed on this page: http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
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`It would be horrible to have to constantly switch so many things on/off as needed, but perhaps
`disabling something innocuous like bluetooth will actually make a big difference! An accurate test
`would surely require actual load monitoring, as the battery will perform differently from run to run.
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`iphone 3g battery by coco on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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`Sure the battery on iPhone 3G is not that great, but what can we do? We want small size phones,
`powerful features and lengthy battery life.
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`Just get a backup battery. I got mine from iPhoneck brands. Their new 3G backup battery is
`probably one of the better looking products in the market. Their website is www.iphoneck.com
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`Better Than Most by MaxxxRacer on Monday, July 14, 2008
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`Prior to owning the iPhone 3G I had the HTC Mogul Pocket PC (WM6). The Mogul was an absolute
`monster at eating batteries, despite its bountiful 1600mah battery (that was quite heavy). The
`iPhone 3G on the other thand is much slimmer, lighter and FASTER with better battery life. While
`waiting in line for my second iPhone (got the last one at the apple store on the 11th) for 7 hours the
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`phone drained the battery to near death. This was with downloading and playing games most of the
`time.
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`Today I went from a full charge to 20% in 10 hours with several phone calls made, 2 hours of ipod
`use and lots of game playing and toying around.
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`The bottom line is this. If you play with the phone non stop you will get about the claimed 5 or 6
`hours of use and will need to charge it a few times a day. But if you use the phone like a normal
`human being you should only need to charge it once a day and for infrequent use, every other day.
`To be safe, charge it every day.
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`Personally I have a charger at home, in the car and at work, to ensure that I have a charger
`wherever I am.
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`Wait a second...... by gutcheck2008 on Monday, July 14, 2008
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`I have one. The battery life is shorter then the version 1 iPhone, but there is really no comparison
`between the networks. Look, you can charge the thing at home, in a car, or on a computer and it
`charges really fast. I don't think anyone has pointed this out btw, to charge the battery to full takes
`about 30 min in the wall, or in the car, or on a PC. Then, I can take it, use it all day and then when I
`come home, charge it again. It is really a cool thing to have and I really am happy with it.
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`How about telling us what the battery sizes are? by kdarling on Sunday, July 13, 2008
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`Posting battery life comparisions is pretty meaningless without us knowing what batteries are being
`used.
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`Is the Blackjack using its default tiny 900mAh, or an extended one?
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`The original iPhone has a 1400mAh battery, so of course its life would be much larger than other
`phones without extended batteries.
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`Any idea what the 3G iPhone uses? Best evidence so far is 1150mAh.
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`wtf are you doing Iphone news on anandtech? by imaheadcase on Sunday, July 13, 2008
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`I mean seriously, its a niche market. You might as well do a review of a Toaster that is colored Pink
`while you are at it.
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`If you are going to do reviews on freakin phones, at least do lots of phones..esp the ones that are
`100x better than any iphone on the market.
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`Junk! All Junk! by steveyballmer on Sunday, July 13, 2008
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`The instinct and other phones that run WinMob trounce this toy!
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