Hello,

That's interesting. I used my iPhone a lot yesterday, and the battery was still 
pretty good when I went to bed. So perhaps they fixed it, I'm not sure.

Regards,
Brandon Olivares
Azavia Technologies
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On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Congratulations on your phone. I don't have an iPhone at all, but my mother 
> has a 5 and my sister a 4, and I plan to upgrade in a month or two.
> Anyway, I wanted to warn you about that raise to talk feature. When it first 
> came out, people found that it was a pretty good battery drain, and the 
> recommendation was to disable it. I don't know if they made things better in 
> the iPhone5 and/or iOS6, but I just wanted to warn you to watch your battery 
> if you enable tat option.
> On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Brandon Olivares <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I just got the iPhone 5 yesterday for my birthday. I was upgrading from an 
>> iPhone 4, so this is the first time I've gotten to use Siri.
>> 
>> First of all, I love that Facebook is now more or less built in. I know this 
>> is an IOS 6 thing, not necessarily the iPhone 5. But I like that you can 
>> update your contacts from Facebook on your phone, so you can keep their 
>> contact info up to date. I used to use an inaccessible app to do this 
>> occasionally, but now it appears to be a lot easier. However, I'm not sure 
>> if it downloads new contacts from Facebook that aren't yet on your phone, or 
>> only updates the ones that match. I think it is the former.
>> 
>> I like that there's an extra row of icons per page on the homescreen since 
>> the screen is taller. Though sometimes I have to search around for things 
>> where I got used to their location, but now they are higher up on the screen 
>> for the same reason.
>> 
>> I love the Do Not Disturb feature. I've been wanting something like this for 
>> a while, kind of a compromise between Airplane mode and wanting some people 
>> to be able to get through if necessary.
>> 
>> The new "reply with message" option is also really useful. Basically if you 
>> get a call you can't or don't want to answer right now, you can select "call 
>> options" and then "reply with message," and select one of three predefined 
>> replies, such as "I'll call you later."
>> 
>> Finally, of course, I love Siri. Very useful in a lot of ways, and very 
>> funny to at others. :) I didn't know this, but I realized that if the option 
>> is enabled, you can simply raise the phone to your ear to talk. That 
>> includes for dictating messages. Just raise the phone up to your ear and 
>> speak your message. It's very convenient.
>> 
>> Christine and I have only been using Siri to send messages, since it is so 
>> much faster.
>> 
>> I actually wish it would do more, though. For instance, I asked it to create 
>> a list in reminders. It said to go to the reminder's app for that, so 
>> obviously Siri knew what I was talking about. Why not just create the list? 
>> Can't be very difficult. Same thing for completing reminders.
>> 
>> Anyway, just wanted to share some of the things I like about this new phone. 
>> :D
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Brandon Olivares
>> Azavia Technologies
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