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...can you change the battery on this version of the iPhone? Are there no portable/USB chargers for it etc?
You can use a portable charger if you're crazy.
And that's an interesting feature idea, eh?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmmorrison/2730690...
its just not feeling the love. at least 2.0 has a secure wipe feature.
see my signal comparision...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmmorrison/2724015...
IN CENTRAL LONDON - a few hundred yards from apple store.
which is the network with historically the worst connectivity.
This also happened last year with one of the firmware updates - 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 fixed it.
Fundamentally, you should get the same performance out of an i3g as an N95 doing the same things at the same time on the same networks. Chipset power consumption is not radically different.
Early i2G weren't that flash either, but over the 1.0.1-1.1.4 development things improved a lot. Now they are playing with not only a new radio platform but a bunch of new services and a changed OS, I'm not surprised the experience is sub-optimal.
Life at the (b)leading edge eh?
:(
it was dead this morning despite being over half full last night.
my n95 - i took about 10 photos - uploaded 3 to flickr at full 5mp, watched some video, listened to mp3s
checked email/twitter via web. sent some sms's made one short call.
and its still on full charge.
and the n95 isnt exactly the best battery in the world
you need a genius bar appointment to return it!!!
so i have a probably 30 min wait on standby to return the bloody thing
will take longer to return than it did to buy.
they got me away from the queue waiting to buy - very quickly though :)
someone sitting next to me was getting a white iPhone replaced because of 'cracks'
though the apple staff member did seem to think it was damage
he replaced it no questions.
back to n95 classic.
i think if new iPod touches come out - ill get one of those for my slick fix.
i cant have a phone that dies on me midday.
3!
I live in Wimbledon, and 3g coverage is scarce on the phone, but I have WiFi. Outside my office window, there's a Cloud aerial stuck to a lampost. I don't need 3G for calling, and the only browsing I do on the iphone is usually reading blogs/articles to and from work, which don't take long to load on Edge anyway... The wordpress app is great for blogging on the go, and all the sites i look at work really well, even smstextnews has a great iphone theme... So much so, I added it to my blog.
I have a dock on my desk, and the charger at home. Heavy usage, I charge it every night, and for an hour or so at my desk. It's just a different way of doing things, and with all the stuff I use it for, and all the things it replaces, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a battery more powerful, and of similar size, that can last as long.
Anyway, just my thoughts...
It's not bad. I can't really knock it's performance, seeing as it's running 10 recievers. (One thing I didn't know, but just found out looking up that number is did u know the iPhone's built-in receivers use metal surrounds on the headphone jack and camera lens as antennas? how cool...)
I do use my iPhone heavily. I listen to music for just under an hour each way commuting to work, check weather on the met website before going out, browse the net reading my usual blogs through iGoogle (google.com/ig/i - works really nice), have push/exchange email set up with work, check stocks, write notes, twitter on the way home, play games on the waterloo and city line, and more.
Admitedly, longer battery life would be a wonderful luxury, but for all it replaces and does, the shorter-than-usual-for-a-phone battery life to me is justafiable because it replaces everything else I used to carry to work. At weekends, when I don't have the ability to dump it in my dock infront of me, I turn off the push features (because no-one wants work email on a weekend), turn off 3G unless I'm browsing, and generally use it less, so it tends to last through till Sunday..
I never had the first iPhone. It was missing 3G, the feature I use the least. hmm... but so far so good. I woke up at 2am to pick my 16GB in black, even bought a chair just for the occasion, and I don't regret it just yet...
I feel your pain!!
Can I recommend you splash out on a proporta battery? It's not ideal (Apple should have made things ideal) but it does mean that you can carry around an extra few hours of juice with you. It's saved my fat arse plenty of times already. Just wish it could charge up the Segway too :-)
Have fun
marc
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