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iPhone 3G Battery Life
Round Up: Nine iPhone 3G Battery Life Test Results
The black art of battery life testing takes time—that's why every launch day review had some version of "we'll get back to you"—as well they should. Now, after a weekend of testing, some hard data on battery numbers are starting to trickle in. But the iPhone is such a complex device that your results will likely vary from the numbers above. More »
4:42 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By John Mahoney
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41 comments
Latest by stryder100: I ordered an iPhone the other day. Finally caved in. I'm sure everyone was waiting with bated breath more »
iphone 3g battery
How To Maximize Your iPhone 3G's Questionably Adequate Battery Life
The new iPhone's brighter screen, GPS and 3G connectivity are nice, but you know what's nicer? Not running out of batteries halfway through the friggin' day. iPhone 3G battery life may or may not be shorter; even the geek gods at Ars don't have a definite answer. But chances are with the new apps and faster internet, you're using it a lot more often. Here's how to live with the iPhone's battery life while using it a whole lot. More »
8:10 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Brian Lam
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65 comments
Latest by N/A: Here is was REALLY helped my iPhone 3G battery... A LOT! 1) Turn push mail off. Set mail to fetch at more »
apple
iPhone 3G Battery Life Beats the Competition, Apple's Own Tests
The first iPhone 3G battery test results are in, and it seems it beats the competition and Apple's own benchmarks with an average of 5 hours and 38 minutes talking non-stop on AT&T's 3G network. The closest competitor—only five minutes short—was the Samsung Instinct. More »
skin antenna
Skin Antenna Uses Your Body to Boost Battery Life, Skin Cancer
Researchers at the Queen's University Belfast have developed a hockey puck-like transmitter that can connect to gadgets on your body and allow them to transmit waves along the surface of your skin. What's the upside to this? Devices on one part of your person that need to talk to gadgets on another part of your person (medical devices, for example) can do so for twice as long because more waves are transmitting over your skin and and not lost into the air. One application we can think of is for Bluetooth stereo headsets to connect to that cellphone in your pocket. [NewScientist via Textually]
fuel cells
Sony Hybrid Fuel Cell Delivers 14 Hours of Cellphone Video, Will Arrive "Soon"
Sony's new hybrid fuel cell 1.2 x 2-inch battery prototype has managed to keep the juice flowing to a cellular video broadcast for 14 consecutive hours off of 10mL of methanol. The micro fuel cell system uses methanol as fuel and is complemented with a Li-polymer secondary battery to help it deal with electronic peak loads. And according to the R&D team behind it, it may arrive to your gadgets "soon." More »
3:00 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Elaine Chow
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17 comments
microsoft zune
Zune 80 Claims 30 Hour Battery, Actually Gets 22 Hours
We weren't too disappointed when we heard that the Zune 80 almost matched the 80GB iPod classic in terms of battery life, but CNET's hands-on testing has determined that the Zune's actual battery life is quite a bit shorter than its stated battery life. More »
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Today there was some buzz about a battery bug in the iPod classic. Since perceived bugs aren't always universal, or even widespread, we like to wait a bit before sounding the alarm. Well, this afternoon, when I plugged in an iPod classic that I swore was close to fully charged and saw the "Connect to Power" error message you can see above, I decided to dig deeper.
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iPod classic May Have Battery Drain-o Bug
Today there was some buzz about a battery bug in the iPod classic. Since perceived bugs aren't always universal, or even widespread, we like to wait a bit before sounding the alarm. Well, this afternoon, when I plugged in an iPod classic that I swore was close to fully charged and saw the "Connect to Power" error message you can see above, I decided to dig deeper.
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zune battery life
Zune Almost Matches iPod Battery Specs
The battery life specs are in on the new Zunes, and they match up pretty well to the latest iPods. The Zune 80 will get 30 hours on audio and 4 hours on video, and the 4 and 8GB flash Zunes will get 24 hours audio and 4 hours video. In comparison, the 80GB iPod classic has 30/5 (equal in audio, one more hour in video), and the iPod Nanos get 24/5 (again, equal in audio but one up in video). You can chalk up that slightly worse video performance to the larger screens on the Zunes—which we'd prefer over a smaller screen and slightly longer life. [Zune Insider]
laptops
NEC's 14-hour Laptop Lasts Until Japan
NEC's 12-inch VY10A C-4 battery will last you an entire flight across the Pacific thanks to the 14.5 hour battery it's got on board. With a combination of low-powered components like an ultra-low voltage 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo, a big battery, and not very many spare parts (2.1 pounds total at its lightest), you're going to be throwing in the towel before it does. The C-4 also has 1GB RAM and a 40GB hard drive, though we wonder how much more time you could get on it if this were a flash-based drive instead of a standard disk. [Akihabara via Electronista]
8:00 PM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Jason Chen
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15 comments
Latest by kamekel: @Pyrthas: unless you put OSx86 on it, but then again, who really does that anymore :/ more »
cellphones
US 3G Costs Nokia N95 a Mere Hour of Battery Life
When you go from the old Nokia N95 to the new US-spec 3G HSDPA version, you lose about an hour of browsing life. That's due to the larger battery, and the folks at WirelessInfo.com were actually expecting even more of a drain, so this is good news. More: More »
10:44 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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17 comments
Latest by tmeyer2000: Its not just the network speed, the browser processing and the CPU are bigger factors. See this side-by-side comparison: [www.iphonealley.com] The N95 more »
Initial tests show the iPod Nano and Classic outperforming Apple's claims on battery life, sometimes by up to 6 hours.[
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Apple Gives iPhone Glass Face and Extends Talk Time To 8 Hours
Amid skepticism that Apple's originally proposed talk time of "up to 5 hours" may not be guaranteed, Apple has upped the ante. Today it promised "8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback" plus a whopping "10 days of standby time." The same press release says that the front surface of the iPhone has been upgraded from plastic to "durable" glass. Jump for the info, straight from the horse's mouth.
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9:15 AM on Mon Jun 18 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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51 comments
Latest by blankmind13: so jawzxy, wut are u then? an independant, ur just too scared to pick a side. and im ignorant and hostile because more »
sneaking suspicion dept.
Vista Battery Life Sucks
I've complained for months that Vista hogs battery life. Yet whenever I would look a laptop product rep in the eye and ask (most recently, HP and Gateway), I'd get a blank stare that says, "We can't really tell you." Now, the courageous folks at ZDNet have confirmation from inside HP. The Aero Glass interface is, indeed, a leech and a half.
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portable media
Panasonic LX87 Portable DVD Player Has 12-Hour Battery Life, Longest Yet
Panasonic celebrates Sony Day by showing off two portable DVD players, the LX87-S (pictured here) and the LS80-K. Both have 8.5-inch screens and the LX87 has a 12-hour battery life, supposedly the industry's longest. As portable DVD players go, they've got all of the basics down: MP3 playback, JPEG viewing, compatibility with SD and SDHC memory cards, etc. The LX87 also sets itself apart from its lesser brother by including a 1Seg TV tuner. Though we'd still like to see Xvid playback one of these days. Both models will hit stores in Japan in April. More »
cellphones
Giz Tip: Don't Charge Your Phone Overnight
Lately my cell phone battery has been lasting maybe 30 minutes of talk time before dying, so I schlepped through Union Square last night to take it to Verizon and see wtf was up with it. The battery, predictably, was dead, so I was stuck dropping $40 on a new one to ride out the last 5 months of my infernal contract.
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11:27 AM on Fri Dec 22 2006
By www.gizmodo.com
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78 comments
Latest by meher: i guess its better to let your battries drain sometimes. its like food for your body if you keep on more »
gadgets
Cell Phone Battery Life, Extended
Our uberbrain (their word) friends over at Lifehacker found some ways to save precious cell phone battery life. The three they liked most? Kill the Bluetooth detection, set your screen for darker and most important/obvious of all, turn your cell off when not in use. But cool people might call me at any moment! They promised! More »
10:21 AM on Sun Nov 26 2006
By Mark Wilson
3,088 views,
6 comments
Latest by evolent: The best thing I discovered for increasing my battery life was to turn off the phone in areas where I more »
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