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Is iPhone Battery Usefulness On the Decline?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:32PM 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."

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Re:Jokes on them! by cameloid · 2012-09-13 13:09 · 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!

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Re:HUGE DECLINE by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 13:37 · Score: 5, Funny

iPhone 4 lasted me (now my wife)

You married your iPhone 4? That's being too much an iFanBoi.
Re:Jokes on them! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 13:59 · 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.
Re:No by PNutts · 2012-09-13 14:59 · 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.