In general, short battery life is a "requirement" for smart phones :-).
Prior to iOS 5, my iPhone had a post-charg life of 1.8 days.
After iOS 5, it now lives for only 1.3 days. Both values
assume limited voice time - with aggravated voice time,
forget about it...
And I'm not a power user by any means, nor do I have a
truckload of apps (only 21, excluding the default ones that
come with iOS). I'm just on 3G and wi-fi, as much as the
next guy. Most of my online activity happens on the laptop.
My friends that have Android powered phones and are
suffering the same problems, or even worse (as Android has
"better" multi-tasking than iOS, meaning that programs
actually run in the background, eating up battery time
faster).
To save battery life, I've disabled tons of services
including Locations Services, Notification Services and lots
of bits from the Notification Centre (the one you drag from
top to bottom for a summary of what you phone is up to).
It's interesting:
- cellphones were huge, and we wanted them small.
- cellphones had poor battery life, and we wanted
better.
- now cellphones are huge and we don't mind.
- now battery life sucks and we accept it.
Mark.
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