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3G iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals

PC World writes: "The battery life on Apple's new 3G iPhone isn't great, but it beats that of other 3G smartphones we've seen. PC World's Test Center ran it through our standard talk-time battery life test, and found that on average it ran 5 hours and 38 minutes, which we consider to be fair.

That's a big tumble from the superior performance of the original iPhone, which ran on AT&T's slower EDGE network and lasted the maximum 10 hours of our test. But the 3G iPhone beat out the rest of the current 3G smartphone pack, most of which fell shy of the 5-hour mark that's the cutoff between a word score of fair and poor in our performance ratings."

aiphanes6137d ago

Let see you can set up the Iphone to use all 3 network types.
2G for voice calls, and 3G for data, and Wifi for DATA.

You can use voice and data at the same time. Show me another phone that will do that?

5 hours of 3G time is good enough for most people.
10 hours of 2G time is better than anybody
and I think the wifi time is around 7 hours.

Has anybody played super monkey ball and checked to see how long the Iphone 3g will last on battery time?

Premonition6137d ago

I heard some people are having battery problems ever since they updated to 2.0 hopefully apple will fix that problem, ive turned off the push feature on my phone to save more battery and cut off 3G when im not using it.

Adamalicious6137d ago (Edited 6137d ago )

I got one on Friday morning and so far I've been pretty impressed by the battery life. On Friday and Saturday I spent a significant amount of time playing with it, downloading and trying apps and such all while on WiFi. Under these conditions I was able to drain a lot of the battery during the course of the day, but I'm talking about really heavy use. Yesterday I used it more like I would on a regular day: a few calls, used several apps, took pictures, checked email etc. and at the end of the day I still had 60-70% of my battery. Considering what iPhone 3G can do I think the battery life is actually quite remarkable.

Apple knowledge base article about getting the best battery life: http://www.apple.com/batter...

SuperSaiyan46137d ago

The tariff's are a complete rip off, am on Orange at the moment and for £35 a month you get 600mins cross network and unlimited texts...But I want an iPhone...Its either that or wait for the new Samsung Omnia (i900).

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TELUS Launches GameRx, a Wellness Gaming Platform Backed by Science

TELUS launches the GameRx wellness gaming platform, offering science-backed game recommendations for mental and physical health.

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Resident Evil 3 Remake Receives Surprise iOS Port

Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 3 Remake will be the fifth entry in the series to receive an iOS port for Apple devices.

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on_line_forever45d ago

I prefer play the original more than this

RE3 need another remake

DivineHand12545d ago

Why not port RE4 remake to meta quest 3?

Profchaos45d ago

Because the headset isn't capable of running it simply put it's not powerful enough.

Look at metro awakening on quest 3 that's pushing it to its extreme and it's quite far behind PC and PS for graphical capabilities.

Profchaos45d ago

Wow I thought they would abandon this as the sales for village and 4 were abysmal

JEECE45d ago

For whatever reason and despite all evidence to the contrary, their are some companies bent on convincing themselves and others that people want to play premium games on Apple devices.

VersusDMC45d ago

It's assumed apple is paying for the ports. Apple probably paid a lump sum for all the RE games so capcom is just finishing up the contract.

Or maybe Capcom sees this as port practice for the switch 2 or these ports are what the switch 2 versions will be?

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Pokemon GO Fans Nervous After Niantic Sells Game Division To Scopely

Pokémon GO fans are waking up on Wednesday morning a little more nervous. Niantic, the developers of the augmented reality game, has decided to sell the game

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