Hardly fair to compare the iPad Air and iPhone 5S, but I am when it comes to battery life. Both got taken off the charger on Saturday at 7am. Both have been used pretty much non stop. FaceTime, gaming, web surfing, emails, twitter, background services galore.
The iPad is at 64% battery. The iPhone 5S at 43%. And it’s only 4pm. I’ve tried to use the iPad Air a bit more as it’s battery life is absolutely incredible. I have no concerns that I won’t get to midnight with the Air and still have 30% battery free. And that is with really heavy use. However, I can see my iPhone 5S dying by 6pm. It has been used a lot and it has 227 apps installed with 47 apps setup with notifications. Just as scary is there are 58 apps which could also have notifications set in some way but are off at present. So it is likely my 5S will achieve 11 hours of which screen on time will be nearly 5 hours.
Now some of you might 5 hours screen on time is great, but the iPhone suffers from a short standby time as well. And I do wish this at least 4 times better. Do you agree?
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Apple give you great engaging platform and then limit your use. Perhaps it is a conspiracy to get peeps to buy tablets 🙂
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Who knows Jah 🙂 just think for the sake of thinness medals they won’t make it thicker.
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Agree I’d like it to be better, but not sure your use is the norm 😉
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Probably not 🙂
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If it was a bit bigger, with maybe 5 or 5.5 inch screen, they could get more battery life. It would be the perfect device for me then!
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It’s like someone saying, I’ve got a Porsche and I drive it around at 110mph all the time then complaining about the fuel economy…..
Personally I find the 5s battery life to be significantly better than on my Nokia 925 and HTC One
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LG g2 with its 5,2 screen!
Now 14 hours heavy use.
47% left.
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Now you’re showing off 😀
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Yes, thats LG.
Sony qx10 is totally other story.
1 or max 2 hours and the game is over.
Anyway i’am more and more happy with it
as the picture quality is there
even if driver is incomplete.
P-mode is for me as colours are more natural.
Here is a link where i found useful advice:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/08/sony-qx10-lens-review-sonys-odd-new-stepping-stone-between-smartphones-and-dslrs/
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that battery life is normal for a camera. and the batteries are thin and light so its easy to carry a spare.
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Yes but i want unnormal batteries..
Even one day of shooting
Should be possible.
I dont want to carry spare batteries
As its complicated enough
To carry phone and cameralens.
System must be simple
To be succesful.
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So does everyone. But even the best camera takes around 200-250 shots before the battery dies.
Battery technology needs improving on all devices.
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