Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Is iPhone Battery Usefulness On the Decline?

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-time-please dept.

jfruh writes "Every time a company rolls out a new version of a product, it extols how much better it is than the previous version. Thus, Apple spent a part of its iPhone 5 rollout touting the staying power of the latest version of its battery. But have iPhone batteries really seen improvement since the original came out in '07? Kevin Purdy crunches the numbers and concludes that, while the 5's battery beats the 4S's, we still haven't returned to the capabilities of the original phone."

6 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, the milliamp-hours! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "As explained around the web, milliamps hours (mAh) are something like a gas tank, and voltage (V) is the amount of fuel the device is drawing."

    I don't know who wrote this bullshit, but they need to be shot.

    (Yes, I attempted to read the article; so sue me.)

  2. Crap compaired to .... by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iPhone 5 is crap compared to the new iPhone 6 that will come out next spring.

    --
    I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
  3. Re:Jokes on them! by cameloid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes it IS necessary to upgrade though, it can save you real money. I used to spend $$ on firewood for sending smoke signals; but then I made a one-off payment by switching to semaphore flags. Simples!

    --
    -- Cisk for the Cisk God
  4. Re:HUGE DECLINE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    iPhone 4 lasted me (now my wife)

    You married your iPhone 4? That's being too much an iFanBoi.

  5. Re:Jokes on them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think you're saving money?
    After getting a mating pair of carrier pidgeons, my transmission costs are minimal, and my bandwidth just keeps increasing. Sure there are a few lost packets to aircraft, bb guns and Richard Gere, and latency is high, but we're talking reverse data cap here.

  6. Re:No by PNutts · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I'll add that I agree they are useful. Without the battery my iPhone's screen is too dark and I can't hear the audio.