Dvorak: iPhone battery dead after 40 minutes
Although John C. Dvorak cited thin margins and Apple’s inability to play the fashion game fast enough in a recent MarketWatch column urging the company to pull the plug on the iPhone, he revealed far different reasons on the latest episode of This Week in Tech (TWiT).
During Episode 93 of the top-ranked podcast, Dvorak said he received information from “a guy at Cingular who’s testing the product.” The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak “there’s lots of issues.”
“He says the amateur mistake that they made is not having a removable battery,” Dvorak said. “You run 20 minutes and you’re using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly.”
Those reasons seem more legitimate to consider ‘pulling the plug’ on a product. So why weren’t they mentioned in his column?
“He’s telling me confidentially and I shouldn’t be telling anybody,” Dvorak explained.
Apparently telling the hundreds of thousands who listen to TWiT doesn’t count as telling anybody.
I don’t know how Cingular runs their ship, but if that tester were working at Apple I have a feeling he’d be fired immediately if anyone found out he was leaking information to Dvorak.
Lets take John Dvorak for what he’s honestly worth OK and thats about the worth of my dogs droppings in the back yard.
1. Publish idiotic, sweeping, controversial criticism about a product failing
2. Publish made-up technical reason for why product will fail
3. ???
4. Profit!
Wow! This is great news! If Dvorak says the interface crashes and the battery only lasts 40min, then it’s certain to never crash and last for days! Hooray!
Dvorak is just like the KKK– they exist only to say outrageous things and get attention.
Why are you giving these silly assertions attention by repeating them?
Don’t post Dvorak’s stuff. He has admitted on camera to pissing off mac users to drive traffic to his site. You’re just helping him.
Even if it’s true, its April. Phone doesnt come out till June. Clearly this isnt a final product, so who really give a shit?
Dimitry
The truth behind this story is obvious: we have a “anonymous source” within Cingular, an employee that should not even be able to touch the iPhone because there is no way Apple lets any average Joe like this “source” do so, tell “Dvorak the Dork” some false iPhone information. Either:
1. The “source” is an Apple hater/Cingular hater (I wouldnt be surprised, cell phone providers are inherenetly evil and the guy is probably just PMSing that he just had the 100th caller of the day bitch at him on customer support) and is just feeding Dvorak shit because he knows it will draw attention OR..
2. Dvorak himself is full of shit (I wouldnt be surprised there, either), and he is just trolling for some hits again to his site
Main thing is, Dvorak: Proof of STFU.
I’m out.
Is the acronym TWiT meant to be ironic?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twit
Yes, they even call the panelists “twits.”
This is why would wait for the reviews before buying.
Well, I am in Australia… I cannot by in June even if i wanted.
However, you would check for talk time before buying.
In any case, as much as I would prefer a removeable battery, my current phone has one. But only one. It may as well be built in.
Wait for the phone. Read the reviews. And see.
Philip.
I do the duty of my master.
Considering we know Jobs is using the iPhone personally (and was photographed using one with his family at a soccer game) I highly doubt he would be if he knew it would die so fast, especially since he was seen talking on it in public throughout the entire game.
Second the phone hasnt been released to Cingulars in house staff, its still being worked on by Apple and the Cingular people havent even touched it aside from a few execs.
Third we all know how much Dvorak is a controversy whore. He’s the Rush or Bill O’Reilly of the tech world and has been even when he WAS a Apple guy and a writer for Macworld. If someone hit him with a train, only the freaking tech media would blink a eye.
Boy there is a lot of Dvorak hatred here. Have we all forgotten that this “KKK member” (?!) was the only one to predict Apple switching to Intel chips, and the one to predict Apple running Windows not long after? Is the hatred because:
a. He is so good at predicting Apple?
b. He knows Apple and Apple fans so well that he can get them hot and bothered in about thirty seconds?
Come on, guys. His points about the iPhone were good ones (and said before), and the recent news about the Cingular person is certainly true but hardly matters given that the real iPhone is still months away. Is it really necessary to compare Dvorak to a KKK member over THIS?
Big deal – no removable battery. How many of you seriously remove the battery on your current phone? I did once, and that was to install my frigging sim card. Never have after that day at it was over 2 years ago.
As far as dvorak – whatever. I’m still buying one and now I’m doing it to piss him off.
This is so funny, you have top exec’s of apples company and their board that haven’t spent more than 30 minutes with the iphone. And he’s talking about “A guy at cingular” ha ha ha this is the funniest story. Here we have a company that has some of the top developer’s & engineer’s in the world designing and working on the iphone, yet they put in the hands of “A guy at cingular” to test. hahahaha i cant stop laughing. Dvorak = Da Vision Of Retarted Ass Koook. lol.
What the iPhone truly needs to succeed, in view of its obvious disadvantages (high price, limitation to Cingular, small memory for music/video, lack of voice dialing, etc.) is a KILLER APP. And it may be that only such an app will save it.
Such an app could well be DICTATION SOFTWARE (since a microphone is already present, and a stripped down OS X) . . . software that would let a user dictate an outgoing Email, or dictate text that could go into a rudimentary word processor (like TEXTEDIT), and thence to a memory file or, by any one of several means, to a printer if desired.
Then that device, trademark issues permiting, could be renamed the POCKET MAC !
And then that software could well be incorporated into LEOPARD, which would give it the boost needed to stand out as more than a slight improvement over TIGER !
The president of AT&T got to hold one the other day for his announcement. He told the press it was the first working model he had ever seen, and it was taken away by an Apple employee as soon as he was off stage. And dvorak wants us to believe him that “a guy from Cingular” has one to test? I believe this article more than any other dvorak has written proves not just that he writes to bait Mac users but that he is a lair and possibly has a mental defect. It is becoming more clear by reading his writings that it is possible that he not only makes this stuf up he actually believes it. Maybe a voice in his head is named “a guy from Cingular” and so to him he is writing facts. I would recommend dvorak seek professional mental help soon as these delusions seem to be get worst with time.
I have a Win Mobile phone and the removable battery is quite useful: It’s the only way to get the phone to reboot sometimes when it locks up. Now THERE’S a reason to have a removable batery. I suspect that whatever variant of OS X that the iPhone will be running won’t have that problem. I expect uptime to exceed the months of 24/7 uptime I typically get with my OS X boxes. Boy do I hate my phone. Is it June yet?
“Don’t post Dvorak’s stuff. He has admitted on camera to pissing off mac users to drive traffic to his site. You’re just helping him.”
Yeah, 100% agreed, I was going to post something similar.
quote from Monty:
“Boy there is a lot of Dvorak hatred here. Have we all forgotten that this “KKK member” (?!) was the only one to predict Apple switching to Intel chips, and the one to predict Apple running Windows not long after? Is the hatred because:
a. He is so good at predicting Apple?
b. He knows Apple and Apple fans so well that he can get them hot and bothered in about thirty seconds?”
While I agree that the KKK comparison is a bit extreme, it’s clear that Dvorak fabricates this stuff out of thin air to upset the Mac community and drive hits. That’s how he gets paid, remember.
There’s simply no way that any “Cingular guy” (wouldn’t that be “AT&T guy”?) has gotten his hands on iPhone for a minute, let alone be testing it full time. And there’s also no way that the talk time is only 40 minutes. Not possible.
Use logic for a second. Even a company as arrogant as Apple wouldn’t release a product that was so flawed.
And what are you talking about with the Intel transition? Every rumor site on earth suggested the Intel switch for YEARS before it happened. Dvorak is no better than anyone at “predicting” Apple’s successes and failures. He “predicted” that the Retail division would be a costly mistake. He “predicted” that the iPod would flop as badly as the Newton.
I work at Nokia and I’ve worked with a lot of prototypes. I can tell you from personal experience that issues like these are always well known internally and many times they get fixed in the 11th hour. That’s why we go through a lot of internal testing to try and uncover and fix these kinds of issues. Just throwing in my two cents about keeping information like this in context.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Polarise people. Dramatise the differentiating idea. I thank you.
Monty,
He predicted the Intel switch every year for 14 years (even before the switch to IBM). He gives himself credit for being “right” because everyone forgets everything he says two days after he says it, and the world conveniently forgets that he was also predicting Microsoft was going to Buy Apple.
Don’t be fooled.
When Apple did switch to Intel, Dvorak was the most surprised of all.
Maybe it’s a Canary Trap. Apple releases a few test phones with the software programmed to make it appear that the battery is dead after a set time. Some at 40 minutes, others at 30 minutes, etc. That way they can pinpoint where the NDA violator is.
The battery life issue is very serious, and I don’t expect Apple will have a solution. I used the Blackjack for a few months at the beginning of the year, and it’s battery life was about the same. Bad enough that I sold the phone, dropped Cingular, and returned to Sprint to get a wonderful clamshell Samsung phone. It’s battery life is great, plays 2GB of music, and I couldn’t be happier.
iPhone battery life of 40min is a product problem that there’s not much you can do about other that use a yet-to-be-found battery technology.
I work in the industry, and if I buy an iPhone it will be for research. But being pragmatic, let me say that battery life is an industry wide issue. This is because we all use the same battery technology. So, if a phone is thin, it will have a small, thin battery and get bad battery life. If it has a big, bright screen that is always on (e.g., browsing the Internet, checking e-mail, etc) it will kill battery life. If it has chip set technology such as Bluetooth on it will kill battery. And so on and so on.
Sounds more like the Cingular Treo marketing manager trying to create FUD because that’s where his bonus & dept revenue will be after the iPhone comes out.
You’re right, I doubt an actual Cingular iphone product manager is going to risk his job blabbing but why wouldn’t the Treo product manager try to talk the iphone down …
Or perhaps this is all made up also – because Dvorak panicked after realizing he went too far after his last comments – that he had lost all credibiilty in the tech & business market … of course, now you’d have to quesyion his journalism ethics – when someone tells you off the record, apparently it’s only off the record unless it suits Dvorak’s panic attacks of credibility?
I guess I’m one of the few who could believe this. Not that it means anything.
First, the counter-argument that “Well, if the CEO of AT&T hasn’t used one, there’s no way some tester has!” is rediculous. I’ve used Leopard. Our CEO has not. It’s the tester’s job to play with this stuff. It’s not the CEO’s.
So I have no problem believing there’s some tester at AT&T who has used the iPhone. However, that may not be who’s doing the reporting to Dvorak. It’s probably someone who knows the tester or has heard second or third hand.
Does the tester’s phone really only get 40 minutes of talk time? I could believe that, too. Why? Because, I assume, the tester is using a phone that has been through the mill. I’ve worked with prototype devices from various companies. They’ve been used, misused, and abused by other testers before I got my hot little hands on them. Because they were prototypes to begin with, they may not have been put together well. They’re perfectly good for testing purposes, but you wouldn’t want to depend on them.
Remember that the iPhone has the iPod’s built-in battery. So the battery may be screwed up. It’s good enough for testing purposes and AT&T is not testing battery life. They’re making sure that “visual voicemail” works correctly (which can be done in the lab with the device plugged into an AC outlet). So they’re not going to send it back to Apple and lose a week or two of testing time while they wait for Apple to send them one with a good battery. It’s not important for the part that AT&T needs to test.
So here’s the scenario: Some whiny guy wanted to see the iPhone and got into the lab to talk to the tester. He saw it plugged in and said, “Why is it plugged in?” The tester replied, “Oh, because the battery sucks. I can only get about 40 minutes out of it before it runs out.” The whiny guy then ran back to his computer and composed an e-mail to Dvorak saying, “The iPhone battery sucks! It only gets 40 minutes of talk time!” The whiny guy probably has nothing to do with testing and assumed that the tester got a brand-new shiny never-been-touched iPhone straight from the factory, so he figures that all iPhones must have this problem.
Remember: Never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Dvorak’s brain dead after 40 words…
Monty: “Boy there is a lot of Dvorak hatred here. Have we all forgotten that [he] was the only one to predict Apple switching to Intel chips”
Dvorak was hardly the first to notice the megahertz dilemma, it was a real perception problem for Apple. Going to Intel was always a possibility and the topic was discussed at the time, Marklar was rumored in 2002, a year before Dvorak’s article.
http://www.macrumors.com/2002/08/30/marklar-x86-os-x/
Moreover, Dvorak had it all wrong. He was just discussing an idea without any insider knowledge. On March 18th, 2003 he predicted that “Apple Computer Corp. [would] switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months.” Didn’t happen, he never saw the G5 coming. “Apple will announce its use of the Itanium chip,” said Dvorak. The Itanium is not a x86 processor, he’s still wrong. In his mind the transition would “start with the high-end workstations” and the first Intel Mac “[would use] both the Intel and Motorola processors” to make the transition as smooth as possible. All wrong, sorry. “Apple has enough confidence in its hardware designs that it can again risk licensing the Mac OS to the Intel platform.” It’s now 2007, the Mac OS is still not licensed.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,939886,00.asp
This article amounts to saying, “The unborn baby is ugly.”
Dvorak is the Ann Coulter of technology industry news. Rational discourse just doesn’t pay. This blog should add Dvorak to the payroll solely to guarantee something worth fighting against.
Oh Mac Users….
I am not going to state whether I believe Dvorak’s statement is true or false. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. All I can say with certainty is that not a single person here has any concrete information as to why this can’t be true.
Claim #1: No guy at cingular could have ever touched the product.
Are you serious? Do you actually believe that cingular has signed on with Apple for release on their network and nobody at the company has seen the product in action? The guys at Gizmodo have, but not anyone at Cingular. How do you know who this “guy at cingular is”? Everyone of you assumes its the same guy that sold you your last Motorola… It’s probably not!!!
Claim #2: The statement can’t possibly be true. It must be because he hates Apple.
Let’s get real people. There are a lot of problems with Apple Computers. My roommate has had his G4 replaced 5 times in the last 2 years and he still has constant kernal panics. It’s a new device. Something that Motorola and Nokia have been working on for over a decade. You can’t possibly expect Apple to have a flawless machine on the first go!
Get over yourselves! There isnt even a single person arguing with you here and you are all going apesh*t because of some guy you all pretend not to care about.
Here is the truth… THE APPLE IPHONE MAY NOT PAN OUT AS PLANNED! I am not saying that is what is going to happen, but its a POSSIBILITY! So get off your asses, go outside, go meet a girl or two and relax! Who cares!
Jes*s f*cking christ!!!
First you make a device correct, then you optimize for things like performance and battery life. It’s too soon to proclaim the death of the iPhone.
MediaBaron and Peter seems to know what’s going on. If people from an outside company are going to be dealing with my test products I’m going to make sure they meet the requirements of the test and nothing more. That way, if someone walks out with it, it won’t work well enough to be useful.
Yep, The only time I remove a battery, is for this reason. But I do it often enough. SonyEricssons lock up, act like the sim card is dislodged, or likewise, and the battery remove replace is the only cure. The power button will not work.
‘Dvorak said he received information from “a guy at Cingular who’s testing the product.” The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak “there’s lots of issues.”’
As of tomorrow, that will be “a guy that used to be at Cingular.”
I guarantee Apple knows exactly where every working specimen of the iPhone is located, and exactly what software is on each phone, and how it is tuned to behave. There aren’t that many.
I’ll also bet that the unit Cingular has does not have the final software or hardware for anything other than the phone function, that is, they have what they need to test and nothing more.
“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.”
-John Dvorak, 1984
Does anyone REALLY think Apple would want to deal with the lashback of 40-min batteries?
Luckily Dvorak craps out a lot faster than that…
Don’t underestimate Dvorak. He has predicted and foreseen the most – correctly that is. Remember MS on Mac… he was characterized as crazy. Well, I run MS on mine thru Parallels…. And I totally agree with him, an iPod without two batteries or a replacable one is madness. Period. And he is right that the phone market is totally different from mp3…. that was uncontested when Apple was lucky enough to be with the right product at the right time, with sleeping competition, Creative included – unfortunately. The new player was cool but sucked on battery. Remember the Neistat Brothers campaign? And Apple has been very slow to reinvent the iPod. Check out the phone market and product launch ratio. Just to introduce a product by Christmas and launching in June [in the US and 2008 in EU] is slooooow. Unless they launch a phone that is mindblowing unique. And so far that does not look to be the case.
The only reaso why I want an iPhone is that I am so tired of not being able hear my phone when the iPod is in my ear, which is most of my awake hours…
But by God, I hope they take the battery time seriously, really seriously.
Wow, look at the Mac Addicts really coming out of the woodwork!
Anyone who has the temerity to say something about the Great Jobs gets crucified!
“Comments that are inflammatory or horribly offtopic will be removed.”
Where’s the ‘report post’ link on this site??? :-(
Im sorry but i just dont believe that Apple has kept this thing under tight raps all this time. Then they announce it and then put it in the hands of some guy at cingular when they have in house testers im sure. Then they say iphone craps out after 40 minutes lol. After jobs hs stated publicly ” we’ve managed to get 5 hours out of this thing ” which clearly sounds like a post tested statement. I understand also that company’s may put there products in the hands of testers to test their products but that company is not apple and the product is damn sure not iphone, I mean fo god sakes to date you can count on one hand how many one on one upclose and personal vids are out there going through the iphones features it’s arpil and there hasn’t been hardly any advertisement on this product. Why is it because their waiting for testers to give opinions lol, please i think not.
Anyone who gets to work with prototype devices from any manufacturer will know full well that early revisions of handsets have heaps of problems with the UI, battery life and everything else. That’s why they get picked up in internal testing and QA and hopefully taken care of before the device ships.
I’m not sucked up in the hype for iPhone but this is really a non-story and certainly not specific to Apple.
Well a customer wanted aproduct that does everything that laptop does but smaller. The innocent one is on that can point a laptop that can be full power on, lets be reasonable even for 48 h.
I plan to buy it for the good battery life we should expect from it. Poorly written operating system software will cause the processor to be needlessly overtaxed. This causes battery drain. I expect the advances Apple has made with their claim of well written software for the iPhone to efficiently use battery power. The other variables that affect power are subjective and due to the fault of the user – screen brightness, bluetooth and wifi off when not used, quitting unused applications, charging habits, and other user preferences. This is the case with any mobile device in existence, not just specific to Apple alone. My HTC 8125 has a Sanyo battery. That’s because HTC doesn’t make batteries, neither does Apple or Cingular. Any “bad battery” comments are thus seemingly unfounded hype and mis-directed.
#40 GT:
No, Dvorak wasn’t “right” about “MS on Mac”.
The history is that he first said Apple would switch to Intel, partly because he didn’t believe the PowerPC 970 (G5) processor existed. At all. And then, guess what? IBM delivered the PowerPC 970, and Apple shipped the Power Mac G5 for about the next three years.
When Apple *did* announce it was switching to Intel, some idiots thought Dvorak was “right”. No, he wasn’t “right”. Or, rather, he was “right” in the same way a broken watch is “right” two times a day. Dvorak predicting that Apple would switch to Intel was totally unrelated to the fact that they did four years later.
Next, Dvorak predicted that Apple would discontinue Mac OS X, switch to Windows (Vista, specifically), and essentially become a speciality PC retailer. Wrong again. The fact that Windows can be run in virtual machines and via Boot Camp on Intel-based Macs is incidental and unrelated to Dvorak’s claim that Apple would drop Mac OS X and “switch” to Windows.
Dvorak has publicly admitted to openly trolling Apple users to get hits for his articles. In fact, that admission is probably a carefully crafted troll in itself. He has been wrong about nearly every major prediction he has made, especially ones that involve Apple, and this ‘iPhone battery only lasts 40 minutes’ garbage is utter BS, and just reeks of typical Dvorak trolling. There are too many things wrong with that statement to list, but even on the off chance he really did talk to someone at Cingular “testing” the phone, judgments can’t be made about prerelease, non-FCC-approved prototypes and test mules. There is no reason to believe iPhone’s battery life won’t be manifestly what Apple says it is in the specifications (or out of any similar margin with respect to what any other manufacturer claims about their own battery lives), and that will be easily proven when the iPhone ships. I’m sure the heaviest users of fullscreen video, etc., will complain about short battery life, and I’m sure we’ll see a flurry of articles about it, especially from those who carp about the battery not being replaceable on the fly. Well guess what? Those people didn’t have to buy iPhones, did they?
Sheesh.
jfletch said…”I have a Win Mobile phone and the removable battery is quite useful: It’s the only way to get the phone to reboot sometimes when it locks up. Now THERE’S a reason to have a removable batery.” …
More like, THERE’S a reason NOT to get a WINDOZE smartphone.
As for the lack of replaceable battery in the iPhone ? no thanks I’ll be sticking with Symbian for the time being. Symbian NO nosense, NO lockups, NO rebooting.
You wee wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The iPhone has 8 hours of talk time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a sad day that a previously semi-conscious columnist turns into a ‘hit whore’.
John Dvorak was very relevant and worth reading in 1985.
It is funny now some many months later that we are looking at a battery life closer to 8 hours than 80 minutes.
Well – Got an iPhone… Works great…
That is, however, until you use the 802.11 – Then it is like a Sherman Tank with a 2 gallon gas tank
With that off and NO use of the iPOD function, the battery time is better than 40 minutes…but frankly not as much as I would expect…
I am sure it will do well – Despite owning both MAC and PC equipment, and realizing that they both offer benefits, I have become bored with the MAC community acting like Lemmings when it comes to MAC stuff – PC people could care less… I Love my MAC – I Love my T60P Thinkpad too – I like plugging my iPOD into my car – As for the iPhone… So far it has proven to be a serious waste of cash – Granted it IS a cool/fun toy… But just a Toy… perhaps the next generation…. (and before someone says it, yes I DID run like a fool to get my iPhone day one WITHOUT hesitation)
My iphone totally rocks. Now if it could only sync wih Lotus Notes, I could put on my white polyester suit and do some programming in BASIC….
Scott Sampson, I’m not sure what you expected, but my iPhone gets fantastic battery life, even with wi-fi on. I use it throughout the day (pretty heavy surfing via wifi, some phone use, music and video, etc) and I’m not even halfway through the battery. That’s pretty amazing, and it makes Dvorak’s comments look even stupider.
the iphone battery is seriously terrible
The iphone is amazing technology but there is no doubt that the battery is a downside. Apple’s initial quote of 5 hours of talk time that was later extended to 8 hours simply is not realistic. I have been getting less than 1 hour of talk time with no browsing or other activities. I don’t doubt that someone could be at 50% after 20 minutes. It’s not likely that viewing/listening activities on the iphone would even last during a regular domestic flight. With no option for a spare battery I suspect there will be 3rd party external batteries as there are for ipods.
can anyone tell me what the Voltage is of the battery? I make a solar charger for small handheld devices. dave
Hummm… If you guys don’t believe that Iphone is faulty then you should try it out for yourself…You would not know if you not try!!! JUST don’t say I didn’t tell yo so.
But I know how sensative the Ipod’s could be…I baught three…Ipod, Ipod Nano, Ipod shuffle and all were bad from scraches, to drive fail, to screen freeze, to power lost. I know that the battery is faulty because my Ipod died after 20 min. use. Iphone needs a better battery for the amount of power use to power the IPhone. With more options and more features needs more output of power to keep the thing running. And I can see where it fails.. The more you run programs and videos and talk on the phone… it heats up… and an internal batter doesn’t do good when it’s hot unlike external batteries were they are cooled by being out even with a cover there’s air cerculating…. Now if Iphone makers would put a vent to cerculate the iphone then I think it will help the battery. I wonder why they didn’t come up with vents when most of the computers have vents and fans for high output power use for the CPU?
Hummm…
http://www.rechargeable-battery.us
My iphone has been amazing thus far. I was able to unlock with my exsisitng cell phone carrier and no battery issues so far. But i can understand the frustration after spending almost $700 on cell phone and having problems. Reminds of my old samsung z300a phone
WOW, yes, you did it.
Hi,
Well I got apple battery from a local store, and opened my iPhone, but unfortunately i messed up alot of things, i plucked the battery, without nowing that i will damage the circuit, as you can see the bellow images, i have spent more then 10 hours continuous to solve the problem. Let me explain it to you guys….
details and circuit diagram on
http://aamirrajpoot.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/iphone-battery-the-dead-block/
You can get a new battery from needbattery.com They have the lowest prices on the net and a 1 year warranty.
http://www.needbattery.com/Mp3-Players/Apple.html
iPhone battery life is an exact science by adjust the draw and load on the battery. Here are a few suggestions. Reduce Push frequency of email or turn off that feature. Turn off Wi-fi and the 3G radio when not needed. Reduce the brightness of the screen. I was able to increase my battery life to 5hr usage and 1 day 13hr standby by tweaking these settings using a new battery. Also, condition any new batteries by providing a full charge and discharge 3-4 times. ipod or iPhone teardown and battery installation can be found at http://www.iphonebatteryrepair.com.
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Haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed
With last firmware some people have the same problem !
interesting that no mention is made of screen brightness, which is a huge factor. i keep mine fairly dim and get reasonable battery life even with wifi, 3g, etc enabled.
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[...] Segundo Dvorak, a interface dá problemas o tempo todo e o tempo bateria é uma piada. 40 minutos é o que ela é capaz de dar de prazer. Claro que o iPhone utilizado nos testes da Cingular que originaram a declaração do Dvorak, podem ser especialmente projetados para testes e não liberar informações reais sobre o tempo de bateria real e as facilidades na nova interface. [...]
[...] Dvorak: iPhone Battery Dead After 40 Minutes [The Apple Blog via GearFuse] [...]
[...] has been concerns recently about the potential battery life of the iPhone, an important issue with any mobile phone and [...]
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[...] on a WM device last 2 hours you’ll only get about 45 minutes of use out of it. That puts it on par with the iPhone, if you can believe the rumors. The software will appear as an icon on the screen of a smart phone [...]
[...] MacScoop tipster said also that John Dvorak’s past claims that the iPhone has a weak battery “are bullshit!” The source said “the iPhone’s true battery life could equal [...]
[...] and 30 minutes in 3G, or up to 2 hours for video calls. According to John C. Dvorak, the iPhone will die after 40 minutes. Plus the iPhone is tied to a single operator in the United [...]
[...] smacking down the PR, only a few weeks after he urged Apple to pull the plug, and tried to flog the story that the iPhone was DOA. [...]
[...] smacking down the PR, only a few weeks after he urged Apple to pull the plug, and tried to flog the story that the iPhone was DOA. [...]
[...] the iPhone gets what can only be called exceptional battery life. By the way, I stumbled on this quote from Dvorak back in April. Man, does he look like a jackass now. “He says the amateur mistake [...]
[...] In subsequent press coverage, the news eventually leaked out, perhaps most memorably in John Dvorak’s famous iPhone podcast, in which he quotes an unnamed Cingular (AT&T) executive complaining about the "amateur mistake" Apple made in not having a removable battery. (link) [...]
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[...] Un conocido podcaster de Estados Unidos, John C. Dvorak, asegura en su último podcast que, en estos momentos, las baterías diseñadas para el iPhone sólo permiten hablar durante unos 40 minutos, y que después causan problemas. Dvorak cita como fuente a un probador de Cingular. Bastantes blogs de Estados Unidos que recogen la noticia dudan que los problemas que cita Dvorak sean ciertos.Vía theappleblog. [...]