Went to England at the weekend and, once I got there, I found the hotel didn't have an electric shaver point in the bathroom, so I couldn't recharge my 'phone. With around 1 hour of calls, playing a bit on the plane, a dozen texts and on 24/7, it lasted from Thursday afternoon through to Monday afternoon.

You reckon the iPhone will do about the same CC?

My iPhone 3G is 12 months old and I get about that now Dave.
Charged it last Friday night, done about a hundred (or so) texts, playing while setting it up and made calls on it and it'll likely need to be charged tonight.

Mark

Thanks Mark.

I think it would do more. Apple claim 300 hours standby, that is about 12.5 days. If you turned off features that were not needed by you when travelling such as WiFi and Bluetooth I think a weeks worth of normal use would be easily yours. Heavy games use would hit it hard I reckon but executives like yourself Dave would probably find it fine.

There seems to be quite a lot of intelligent power management built in. I notice that when you put the phone to your ear the screen powers off for example

CC

Edit.

The engineer came today, so I am back on WiFi

Thanks CC. Yep, BT and WiFi are switched off when I don't need them anyway. If there is no WiFi or BT in the area, it will drain the batteries faster than Clarkson in a Tesla!

I'm lucky to get a couple of days from mine, but I do use bluetooth a lot.

I have Bluetooth on all day and all night, and WiFi on all day and all night.

My battery range is s*it.

I think I might have killed my iPhone. My battery does well to last five hours, so I have to make sure I'm always near a charger!

Looking back, I have only ever got six hours absolute maximum out of it from new. I always thought that was normal though?


That's not really to save power, it's to stop your face pressing the buttons on the screen such as "End call".

Peter.

The new one is meant to have a better battery. Even so six hours seems a bit light. Do you keep everything on or just keep on what you need?

I keep Wi-Fi turned on, but nothing else. I have set every option so it will save power, but I still can't get more than five hours out of it nowadays.

Peter.

There is no point leaving wifi on, if you aren't actually using it. It just drains the battery faster, trying to find a usable access point.

I have turned off "Ask to join networks", which I assume stops it trying to find access points?

Anyway, I am connected on wi-fi most of the day, so I can't see there being a huge benefit if I turned this feature off.

Peter.

I found that dropping the screen brightness made an enormous difference to how long the battery lasted. Given how large the screen is, that isn't much of a surprise mind.

When I first got mine, I was playing with it in a dark corner of somewhere or other, having the brightness on full hurt my eyes too much, so iot got turned down right away...I forgot to turn it up and it pretty much stays on about 1/6 brightness at all times.

Is the 32GB model available in the UK? The T-Mobile website is saying that it isn't currently available.