>> The friends who have iPhone 4's have complained about battery life but >> in many ways this is the consequence of these devices have such a large >> range of capabilities (web browsing, applications for games and sites, >> taking photos, listening to music or watching movies etc). For examle,
above of course aplies not to just to Apple speaking of Apple 4 battery life, I know two friends who have the new 4, one is not very tech literate, she was complaining of battery life, BUT, addmited she probably was playing with her brand new phone a lot, following the s/w upgrade, she says battery life is now very good, asked her again, still very happy with battery life after s/w u/g my other friend is quite tech literate, he says his iPhone 4 battery life is excellent in my limited experience with Android, similar issues/resolutions appear on Android: Desire HD with poor battery life for the 1st 12 month, since HTC updates few weeks ago, excellent battery life Atrix, initially mediocre or poor battery, with CM7 and faux123 1.45G kernel, excellent battery life >> the S2 really needs something like Juice Defender to improve it's >> battery life, which is not great when compared to my Nokia N95. I can >> get more than 24 hours if I stop all the automatic synching and endless >> search for wireless networks. My N95 would give me a couple of days. if I use 3G sporadically, I can easily get 48 hours from Atrix - again, that depends very much on what op sys revision you have in my experience, only 3G data enabled makes a significant battery drain, this is my single biggest gripe with my phone, why does having 3g data enabled should drain so much battery if my phone is set not to do all this social networking stuff, etc. apparently, it can be overcome with like Juice defender, etc, but, surely a smart phone could have data on and 'snooze it' till needed on demand I think...? one of the CM7 builds was pretty close to puurffect in that regards, problem is, once I was able to run the phone in excess of 24 hours on single charge, it became no longer so important to me, and, the brag rights of having latest CM7 latest overclocked kernel took over >> My experience of the browser on stock iPhones is that it's pretty much >> dreadful. Highly inflexible and difficult to navigate. My theory about >> the rise of apps in the iOS world is that the dreadful browser on the >> iPhone has meant that you really do need a separate app to make >> accessing information or services an imperative. again, I have never used iPhone, so., can't comment there, BUT I really think above applies to any device with circa 4" screen, most web pages simply don't scale well to fit on 4" screen. as much as personally I don't think that much of iPhone, that's what I'd recommend to most people (if the were foolish to ask me, that is), as I think the whole Apple thing is better for most lusers but for any one who is into stuff, as Steve Wozniak said, Android is the way to go (though my friend with is into Cisco is very happy with his iPhone, has a Cisco client that hooks him up to his Cisco VOIP switch) meanwhile, I've managed to get Ethernet going on my Android tablet (using USB Ethernet adapter. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
