+1. Heavy WiFi use will drain the battery faster, as will heavy use of any application/game. Mail settings have an impact as well; if you have it set to check mail frequently, it will definitely use more battery. I do not use mine with my work email, so I have no experience with ActiveSync. However, based on the way I understand ActiveSync works, there is a lot of communication back and forth. Anytime you are doing something that is using one of the radios, it will use more battery. Bill Mayo
________________________________ From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone and battery life My battery will last 3-4 days with low usage. Like was said before, it all depends how heavy you're using the different features. My Son has my original iPhone (without the phone activated). He is constantly using the apps/iPod feature and has to charge every night. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone and battery life Mine's off and on with the Battery life depends on what I run I do always have my WIFI / Bluetooth off when im not using it and make sure I have a good signal spot when I leave the phone anywhere since it will keep searching. Your son's phone isn't Jailbreaked by any chance? If it is he might have loaded 3rd party Apps that kill Battery life. I know mine do J. Id have to say even with all the issues and as a longtime gadget freak hands down the iPhone is the best convergent tool I've ever had. From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone and battery life I've experienced a few problems with my battery life and I've set my mail to pull every hour, although I leave 'push' on, turn off WiFi, turn off 3G, turn off Bluetooth. These are the typical things that you can do to combat these problems. However, something else that can happen is that applications can sometimes hang and they continue to churn and use battery. I experienced this over a Saturday where I checked my mail twice over the course of six hours and had to recharge twice as well. You can try rebooting the phone and that will usually clear up that issue. The other thing is that you may just have a bad battery. If you can make it to an Apple Store and talk to one of their 'Geniuses', they can do a diagnostic on it and make sure that you don't have a degraded battery. And I guess the other option is to get an external battery case like the InCase Power Slider, but I'd start with the other stuff first. Anyway, hope this helps. Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: iPhone and battery life Ok.. I have a Blackberry Bold. The other day I was messing around with my son's iPhone and decided I would get one to see how it works. So far, I like it very much... EXCEPT battery life SUCKS! Took off full night charge this morning at 7am and already at 60%. Those of you that have iPhones.. what are you doing to help this? I have wifi off, Bluetooth off and just now set active sync to manual. - Bob Fronk _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
