PC World says iPhone king of Battery life

Cleve Nettles
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July 14, 2008
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PC World has  put together a graph (in color!) depicting the average battery life of some common 3G smartphones.  We guess that Apple's 3G chip isn't so horible after all because iPhone came up on top.  According to PC World, 'The 3G iPhone's 5-hour, 38-minute battery life isn't great, but it still beats that of the 3G competition.'

As a commenter below points out, we guess PC World forgot about Nokia, the world's #1 smartphone maker....

Comments (14)

9to5Mac Noobster (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 6:25am

Where are all the Nokia phones?!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 7:04am

Good point.

If you want to compere cellphone, then you have to have Nokia in there as well

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 6:49am

The Nokia phones are all at home shitting in their plastic pants.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 7:03am

From what I've been reading, people can be "disappointed" all they want, but the battery life isn't that much worse than the competition (or I guess it could even be better based on this article). The problem is so many people come in complaining that they "made the switch" from their tried and true, four year old RAZR that they only used to make calls and then expected similar battery life. Most people I know with smartphones simply *do* charge their battery every night. Most of them have a dock or some similar solution and they just pop it in when they get done with the day.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 7:15am

Battery life is not as long as the old days.

But today the phone has
High resulution colour screen's
Higher data speed
Higher frequency to transmit on.
Can world as a MP3 player
Can watch movies on them

And beside all that they are getting smaller.

So yes a normal person will have to rechars it every 1-2days.

and a power user migth consider to have a extra charger at the office/school/in the car.

But do you remember when it took the hole nigth to recharge you phone?
I have a Nokia E51. and if I notic that the battary is on 1/7 and I don't have mutch time befor I have to leave the house.
Well 15min. in the charger, and it has 3/7-4/7 battary power, and that will do fine.

So basic what I want to say is, Battary life migth big shorter then "the good old days" but today the phones is smaller, can more things, and they are faster to recharge.

BPhone (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 7:23am

What is a Nokia?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 7:48am

Well before Apple started making phone, they were the only ones that I think made good cell phone :-)

But as long that I can't get my iPhone whitout a contrat whit Telia (I'm from Denmark) I won't buy one.

Jeremy (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 8:41am

I've noticed that having the push functionality turned on really kills the battery for me. Has anyone else seen this?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 9:31am

Why would I be using 5 hours of internet on my phone?! In 5 hours won't I be able to get a hold of a computer?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 10:02am

How come no BlackBerrys are on that chart?

admin | July 14, 2008 - 10:39am

there aren't any 3G blackberries

DistortedLoop | July 14, 2008 - 2:07pm

 I'll have to go read the actual article you're citing, but my iPhone 3g hasn't gotten anywhere near 5:38 of IN-USE battery life in the first three days, and doesn't look like it will today.  But what are they measuring?  Talk time only?  Surfing?  iPod usage.

How you use the phone and for what will so greatly influence this number.

I agree with the previous comment about most smartphone users just know to dock often.  Even with my 1st gen phone I learned to dock it at home and the office often, use a car charger when necessary between destinations, and a Mophie Juice Pack in the brief case added hours of extra use time.

XamaX (not verified) | July 14, 2008 - 8:20pm

Girls, there's no market opportunity that doesn't get addressed.

Here's the brilliant 1,200 mAh capacity USB charged battery that provides an additional 36 hours of music, 7 hours of video and 3.5 hours of talk time to any iPhone. It's here in August:

http://www.geardiary.com/2008/07/14/iphone-3g-battery-pack-to-trickle-ou...

Matt (not verified) | July 16, 2008 - 8:25pm

Oh come on, they didnt do the BlackJack II, with it's HUGE battery. My battery lasts a good 6 or 7 hours, thats retarded