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Excellent battery life? My iPhone lasts just as long as my girlfriend's Droid X2 does, which is a day if we are lucky. Currently yes the app store does have a

Excellent battery life? My iPhone lasts just as long as my girlfriend's Droid X2 does, which is a day if we are lucky. Currently yes the app store does have all the latest games and that makes sense as iPhone users were previous iTunes users. Unfortunately, i think Android draws more the non music buyers who used p2p and are looking for free ride - not all but a good majority. I think a useful study would be iPhone and their P2P usage(always, rarely - iTunes instead or never pirate iTunes buyer always) vs. Android users & their P2P usage(always, rarely - use iTunes instead or never pirate iTunes buyer always). I think you would see why apps are developed first for the iPhone and sometimes only for the iPhone. Even with a bigger market share Android developers are not making the mint iPhone developers have been and continue to make. iPhone owners are of a different mind-set/demographic (for the most part) i am thinking. Also Android's marketplace is a mess comparatively. Overall i was an Apple iPhone fanboy but the tons and tons of Android phones are outpacing Apple's prior innovations.

ralfd 15y ago
In my limited experince my iPhone 4 lasts up to twice as long as some phones of my friends. And iOS 5 sounds like it has many features you may want (notifications, wifi sync, Sync with iCloud). But speaking of todays sync: It is in the summary Tab when the iPhone is connected. No learning how to disable it, it is just there where you would guess it is.
olivercameron 15y ago
Then something is wrong with your iPhone. Many news sources[1] say the Droid X2 lasts literally hours (5 in this test), due to the multi-core processor. 1. http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x2.aspx?page=2 http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x...
- Blarat 15y ago
  they ran a bettery test for 1 hour and extrapolated the result which gave: the X2 should last about 5 hours and 20 minutes on a charge and one important thing in the next line: and 5:39 for the average smartphone. So it's pretty much in line with what the parent posted...
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  It depends how you use the phone. Android phones can last between 5 hours to 3 days. It all depends on usage. Just because you heard or experienced 1.5 days of battery life with iPhone, and then you heard somewhere else that Droid X2 stayed 5 hours on a charge, doesn't mean the iPhone's battery is 3x better. Games or heavy wifi browsing can easily eat into your battery life in several hours, regardless of the phone.
Steko 15y ago
Latest comparison I've seen of smartphone btty life by Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4424/hp-veer-4g-review-getting-us-excited-for-pre-3/12 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4424/hp-veer-4g-review-getting... edit: replaced single chart with link to page with 3 charts. In defense of the OP he may have a 3GS which is not far from Droid X2 on these charts.
alanthonyc 15y ago
Sounds like you have an iPhone 3GS or 3G (since you've had it for over a year). The iPhone 4 is much better than either of those in terms of battery life and performance. Mine lasts about two days on one charge, whereas my previous iPhone, the 3G, barely lasted a day. The new phone is also much faster.

ralfd 15y ago

In my limited experince my iPhone 4 lasts up to twice as long as some phones of my friends. And iOS 5 sounds like it has many features you may want (notifications, wifi sync, Sync with iCloud). But speaking of todays sync: It is in the summary Tab when the iPhone is connected. No learning how to disable it, it is just there where you would guess it is.

olivercameron 15y ago

Then something is wrong with your iPhone. Many news sources[1] say the Droid X2 lasts literally hours (5 in this test), due to the multi-core processor. 1. http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x2.aspx?page=2 http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x...

Blarat 15y ago
they ran a bettery test for 1 hour and extrapolated the result which gave: the X2 should last about 5 hours and 20 minutes on a charge and one important thing in the next line: and 5:39 for the average smartphone. So it's pretty much in line with what the parent posted...
nextparadigms 15y ago
It depends how you use the phone. Android phones can last between 5 hours to 3 days. It all depends on usage. Just because you heard or experienced 1.5 days of battery life with iPhone, and then you heard somewhere else that Droid X2 stayed 5 hours on a charge, doesn't mean the iPhone's battery is 3x better. Games or heavy wifi browsing can easily eat into your battery life in several hours, regardless of the phone.

Steko 15y ago

Latest comparison I've seen of smartphone btty life by Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4424/hp-veer-4g-review-getting-us-excited-for-pre-3/12 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4424/hp-veer-4g-review-getting... edit: replaced single chart with link to page with 3 charts. In defense of the OP he may have a 3GS which is not far from Droid X2 on these charts.

alanthonyc 15y ago

Sounds like you have an iPhone 3GS or 3G (since you've had it for over a year). The iPhone 4 is much better than either of those in terms of battery life and performance. Mine lasts about two days on one charge, whereas my previous iPhone, the 3G, barely lasted a day. The new phone is also much faster.