Battery only 5 hours?

[tucogovinda]

Kabeyun,

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a long-time Apple fanatic.... I haven't been as excited about any product as I am about iPhone in a very long time. This forum looks like the perfect place to pass the time until its release.

Back to the point: you're correct the Macworld article doesn't address battery life. My point was more to point out the ability to turn off Bluetooth via "airplane mode." My hope is the existence of this "all-or-nothing" setting represents just one of many energy-saving settings on iPhone, such as the ability to turn off specific wireless capabilities like Bluetooth.

The bigger point here is that, to my knowledge, nobody has seen the Settings menu on the iPhone. Just as a lot was learned from the AppleTV Settings menu, I'm guessing we'll learn a lot about the iPhone from its settings menu.

To the specific issue of battery life, the truth is, nobody will know anything about real-life performance until iPhone is out in the wild. Hopefully the fine-tuning controls are there to influence the battery life.

 

[ahactor]

Well, do those figures take into account the sensors? The iPhone has ambient light sensors in it that will turn the screen bright-ness up and down, or turn the screen off, and that will save A LOT of power in my opinion. So, that makes the power even more efficient.

Source: http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/sensors.html

 

[robhon]

Warning: The following is TOTAL speculation and has no basis other that my own fleeting fantasy....

You'd think, relative to battery life, that Apple would create a settings page somewhat like the sytem preferences on the normal OSX. There's the old familiar "energy saver" icon. That's where you'd determine if you need all radios on full blast because you're next to an outlet at your desk, or if you're out in the desert for a week and need to spare your battery for that last desperate emergency call for water. And hopefully there are other familiar items like "international." My wife is Chinese and prefers her own langauge. (Ever tried to install Chinese on a Treo? It's a nightmare.) The system preferences are also where you'd set your screen with a picture of your cute kid strangling the neighbor's cat, etc. (Ah, look at him, he's just so full of energy.) ....Lots of WAY cool stuff in the familiar old preferences.

 

[kestrelz]

Also, there is Solio which is a solar charger for your iPod. I hope it works for the iPhone. Would be nice to be on the beach charging it huh?

Hi, I never heard of a solar charger. It wouldn't be much use for me since I start work before daylight and get off after dark. It's nice to know it exists,
Thanks
Kestrelz

 

[botnick]

5 hours of talk time is great. Figure School/classes take place over roughly 6 hour period of time. So Charge while you sleep and put it on when you get home. Also buy a car charger. Charge it whenever you are driving around.

Five hours is good. Besides it is just a matter of time before someone produces a super battery for it just like they keep doing for the Treos.

 

[Kabeyun]

Five hours is good. Besides it is just a matter of time before someone produces a super battery for it just like they keep doing for the Treos.

Not going to happen, at least any time soon. The iPhone battery is sealed in the device and not changeable by the owner. Treos, on the other hand, have a removable door to the battery compartment and the battery can be taken out.

-K