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Apple's iPhone Battery Advice
Merlin Mann | Jul 23 2008
Apple has 11 tips for increasing battery life on your iPhone.
In a nutshell? Use it as an iPod. But not too often. NB: there’s appears to still be an instance of “Push” in there. Was the decision to pull that term just for the non-email stuff? 6 Comments
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 NB: there’sSubmitted by davecatley on July 23, 2008 - 11:13am.
Sorta, push on the iPhone works very nicely, its the relationship between Macs/PCs and MobileMe that is more pull than push. My guess is that “proper” push will appear with a new version of mail.app, but maybe not till snow leopard and its exchange compatibility. »
Common SenseSubmitted by kcmichaelm on July 23, 2008 - 11:24am.
All of those make sense and should be reasonable to most. Apple doesn’t want to get beat up too much for battery life, and the App Store works completely against them. I am certain there are lots who downloaded half the App Store and are playing on them at any given moment. In time, I imagine folks will dial this back and realize the capabilities of the phone bring it more in line with those of a laptop instead of the phones to which we are accustomed. How do you extend battery life on a laptop? — Turn down brightness — Turn off Wifi — Don’t leave DVD’s spinning while watching movies (if possible) — Don’t expect to finish that last Folding@Home unit while finishing your presentation on the flight to New York. Same stuff applies here, hopefully they don’t take too much bad press in the coming weeks when battery life drops to 3 hours for some people. »
 Not what they said they'd do, but seems accurate anywaySubmitted by edibiase on July 23, 2008 - 11:29am.
Apple's MobileMe apology said: "So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word 'push' until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too." The use on the battery page seems okay with me, though. I'm fine with calling MobileMe's email "push" (on the iPhone, at least), since new MobileMe-served mail does seem to show up on the device instantly. »
 Push servicesSubmitted by banoe on July 23, 2008 - 11:45am.
Push does work for Exchange mail. My guess is that is why it is still there. »
 TouchSubmitted by ronkfel on July 23, 2008 - 1:34pm.
Since installing 2.0 I wake up to a dead IPod Touch every morning. So…turn everything off. What’s the point? »
The longest battery lifeSubmitted by RickyF on July 24, 2008 - 8:18am.
If you keep it in the charger and never turn it on… »
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