Hi Gary, My understanding is that the fact that the new iPad and fourth Generation iPad have LTE is the reason why a larger battery was required since using LTE is apparently a real battery hog. It would, of course be interesting to know if the WiFi only models have actually the same large battery as the LTE versions since if this is so theoretically this should result in better battery life for a WiFi only model. Of course having WiFi on also does use up a fair amount of battery life.
As far as the screen curtain is concerned there are a few people who claim that it does improve battery life to turn it on. However, turning on the screen curtain does not in fact turn off the display, it just blacks it out so this would indicate it does nothing for battery life since what does make a difference is how high you have set the screen brightness and screen brightness is apparently not changed by turning on the screen curtain. If you turn screen brightness to 0% this will in fact save you battery and make sure you have Auto Brightness turned off. A sighted person can still read the screen with brightness at 0%, but it's a lot harder. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Garry Turkington Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 3:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Battery life with iPad 3/4 gen with screen curtain on? Hi, One of the big changes in the iPad 3rd gen -- continued with the 4th gen -- was the much larger battery required to support the retina display. I was wondering if this translates into much more battery life for VO users with the screen curtain on? I've never been clear on just what screen curtain does -- if it just turns off the display or something more meaningful -- but either way would be curious if this has translated into more battery life for the VO user over say the iPad 2? Garry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
