Thanks scott. That's what I expected it to be like. On 31/10/2009 00:41, Scott Howell wrote: > 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 >> >> >>> > > > > >
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