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New iPhone applications vs. (permanent) battery life?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:46:47 -0700
It is my experience that battery life is much worse in practice. I have a 1st gen iPhone with 2.0 software. Periodically the phone gets hot as hell. Why, no ideabut the battery goes down fast. Might be the "push" mail but sometimes it is good sometimes bad . mail always runs? By the way I am still deeply disturbed by the lack of understanding of Apple that many of their customers do not enjoy standing in line in the heat just because Apple can not seem to understand scheduling . Weird. Dave Crocker might have it right. Dave ________________________________________ From: Lauren Weinstein [lauren () vortex com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:26 PM To: David Farber Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: New iPhone applications vs. (permanent) battery life? Dave, Given the iPhone's expensive to replace (for non-hackers) "permanent" battery, I'm interested in reports of rapid battery decline associated with the rash of new iPhone applications, many of which involve keeping the display lit, long-period data streaming, etc. Question: Will the new applications make the non-user-replaceable battery much less palatable than previously, given that many users may burn through its available cycle life much more rapidly than before? Thanks. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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