Dannie, I'll address the battery issue. First there's no question that with 3G, Location Services, VoiceOver, and the screen all running will seriously impact a battery. Your looking at with light use maybe 14 hours I'm guessing based on my tests. Now you turn off the screen or whatever the screen curtain feature of VO does, will really help out and give you a fair amount more life in that battery. FOr example, after about 14 hours in the first setup, I was at or around 20% and just turning off the screen and location Services resulted after the same 14 hours about 64% battery life. Now here's the real kicker and that is if you turn off 3G your looking at an additional 25% gain in battery life. Now to put this into perspective, let me give you some idea of what my usage pattern is like. I typically turn the phone on around 3:30 in the morning, listen to a podcast perhaps or some other audio, for about an hour or perhaps a little less, then I put the phone in my pocket and pretty much other than a couple of calls during the day, I don't use it again until about 3:50 in the afternoon when I get on the bus. The other day I noticed that after nearly 12 hours, I was at about 90 to 94% battery life. So, keep in mind the iPhone is a pretty data intensive device and has a fair amount of horsepower and so will consume more battery than perhaps something like a Motorola Q9. I do believe VOiceOver could perhaps be tweaked to eat a little less battery, but I'm not completely sure. I do know that any screen reading application on a phone, which also uses a software TTS engine is going to impact the battery life of the phone. I also submit that turning off 3G did not seem to have a significant impact on data speeds. Yes it did affect them, but I could stream audio quite well and sure pages may have loaded a bit more slowly, but I did pull an app down from the app store in a reasonable amount of time. I hope this helps,
On Oct 30, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: > > Hi all. > > As the subject says, I have a couple of questions. > How long does the battery life last? A friend of mine told me that > it's > pretty poor. bair in mind that he's only going from what he's > heard so > I thought I'd ask you folks who actulaly use the thing. > > Also, is there an accessible windows live messenger client for it? > > Thanks in advance, > Dannie > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
