The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days.
Really? I suspect that the adage that "use your smart phone like a dumb phone, get good battery life. Use your smart phone like a smart phone, charge often" applies
On battery life - experience varies because we all live and work in spaces with different signal strengths. So to argue passionately about this is moot.
One issue that is not often discussed - iPhones occasionally go into a hot loop - the battery heats up for no apparent reason and is drained of >75% of its power within an hour. If you read enough fora on the internet, you'll see this problem raised by a number of users.
I have had days it doesnt even last till 3. I was eying those extender battery packs the other week... but they make the phone so big.
I have the Mophie Battery Pack. Was about $80-$90 but it gets the job done with a minimal increase in size. Also has a look akin to the 4's design making it more attractive than other packs.
I had the iPhone 3GS for a year, and I can definitely say that it had the shortest battery life of all iPhone models. The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days. The iPhone 4 has a much better battery life than the 3GS; I don't have to charge it every day.
I charge my wife's iPhone 4 every day... it's down to about 20% - 30% battery life at the end of the day. She uses it alot for her contracting business and my 2 yr old son plays Treehouse videos or Angry Birds on it as well (when he's not on our iPad2).
Side note - Battery Doctor Pro is a great app to monitor your battery health.
I wish this worked on my iPad2. I would love to have Siri do task for me. Crap \
I wish Apple would make a statement either way, from a hardware perspective there doesn't seem to be any reason Siri wouldn't run on iPad 2.
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Way to copy Android Apple even the notification bar. LOL
Mite as well go all the way and put Android on there.
The voice recognition part isn't new at all. It's just supposed to do it much better and be able to make sense of natural language. Once it ships to the public there will be plenty of opportunity to test it out and compare to the voice recognition on Android. If it's a big improvement in those two respects, I don't think anyone will care if it's a "copy".
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They can probably have Siri on the iPhone 4. It seems that the heavy lifting of Siri is done in the cloud.
There was already Siri for that phone - the devs said they had to make compromises to get it to run on that hardware, while the 4S is able to run the full version.
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Siri, please enable bluetooth whenever I am in my car. Disable it when I am not.
Set and forget.
Good idea, but how would it know when you're in your car? Your house or work it can figure out from GPS, but a car changes location.
There was already Siri for that phone - the devs said they had to make compromises to get it to run on that hardware, while the 4S is able to run the full version.
There is still compromise - the heavy lifting is done on the server side. That can be done regardless of the device.
On battery life - experience varies because we all live and work in spaces with different signal strengths. So to argue passionately about this is moot.
One issue that is not often discussed - iPhones occasionally go into a hot loop - the battery heats up for no apparent reason and is drained of >75% of its power within an hour. If you read enough fora on the internet, you'll see this problem raised by a number of users.
Wow! I have not heard of that one. I would hazard a W.A.G. that they all had Tom Tom installed? That app eats ram and battery power like there is no tomorrow (even when idle in the background y.m.m.v) until you kill it using task manager. Maybe less apparent on the iPhone 4 but very noticeable on 3gs.
According to the link, Phil Schiller himself said that part of Siri is on the server.
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You can imagine because Siri needs an Internet connection to function.
We'll find out this week when we turn off Data in Settings then try to do something you can currently do with Voice Control on iOS 4.x, like placing a call or playing a track in the Music app.
I had the iPhone 3GS for a year, and I can definitely say that it had the shortest battery life of all iPhone models. The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days. The iPhone 4 has a much better battery life than the 3GS; I don't have to charge it every day.
Use the task manager to kill all apps that are not Apple apps. Then kill bluetooth and turn off 3g. I can reliably last 6 days which is one day longer then I would get with the original iPhone. It's not that the 3gs has a shorter battery life but that we have found more and more power intensive uses for it.
Use the task manager to kill all apps that are not Apple apps. Then kill bluetooth and turn off 3g. I can reliably last 6 days which is one day longer then I would get with the original iPhone. It's not that the 3gs has a shorter battery life but that we have found more and more power intensive uses for it.
There is no Task Manager in iOS. That's a Windows feature. I think you are referring to Fast App Switcher which simply lists all the apps you've previously accessed in the order you accessed them. Now you can remove them from FAS and if they had active processing they will be killed, but the multitasking offered to developers is controlled and you're not going to save RAM and CPU cycles by removing apps in that list that have been sitting there for awhile.
You can test this by restarting your device to see every app in that order as it was before the restart. Further proof it's a Fast App Switcher and not a Task Manager/Activity Monitor is that the app you are in will not be listed in the list until after you leave the app.
We'll find out this week when we turn off Data in Settings then try to do something you can currently do with Voice Control on iOS 4.x, like placing a call or playing a track in the Music app.
Looking forward to that. For whatever it's worth, Apple's website indicates that "Siri is available in Beta only on iPhone 4S and requires Internet access."
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The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days.
Really? I suspect that the adage that "use your smart phone like a dumb phone, get good battery life. Use your smart phone like a smart phone, charge often" applies
It absolutely does, according to Apple. We know that for sure.
This is my sad face.
One issue that is not often discussed - iPhones occasionally go into a hot loop - the battery heats up for no apparent reason and is drained of >75% of its power within an hour. If you read enough fora on the internet, you'll see this problem raised by a number of users.
This is my sad face.
This is me patting your head, saying "there, there".
Don't give up yet. Very little info is available. But what's available so far won't do anything for your little sad face.
I'd love to simply be able to say, "wifi off," and "bluetooth off."
Siri, please enable bluetooth whenever I am in my car. Disable it when I am not.
Set and forget.
I have had days it doesnt even last till 3. I was eying those extender battery packs the other week... but they make the phone so big.
I have the Mophie Battery Pack. Was about $80-$90 but it gets the job done with a minimal increase in size. Also has a look akin to the 4's design making it more attractive than other packs.
"Siri, find porn."
Siri: "Maybe you could give me something that was actually challenging?"
How about a more suitable question:
"Siri, find the nearest strip club to my present location"
I had the iPhone 3GS for a year, and I can definitely say that it had the shortest battery life of all iPhone models. The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days. The iPhone 4 has a much better battery life than the 3GS; I don't have to charge it every day.
I charge my wife's iPhone 4 every day... it's down to about 20% - 30% battery life at the end of the day. She uses it alot for her contracting business and my 2 yr old son plays Treehouse videos or Angry Birds on it as well (when he's not on our iPad2).
Side note - Battery Doctor Pro is a great app to monitor your battery health.
I wish this worked on my iPad2. I would love to have Siri do task for me. Crap
I wish Apple would make a statement either way, from a hardware perspective there doesn't seem to be any reason Siri wouldn't run on iPad 2.
Way to copy Android Apple even the notification bar. LOL
Mite as well go all the way and put Android on there.
The voice recognition part isn't new at all. It's just supposed to do it much better and be able to make sense of natural language. Once it ships to the public there will be plenty of opportunity to test it out and compare to the voice recognition on Android. If it's a big improvement in those two respects, I don't think anyone will care if it's a "copy".
They can probably have Siri on the iPhone 4. It seems that the heavy lifting of Siri is done in the cloud.
There was already Siri for that phone - the devs said they had to make compromises to get it to run on that hardware, while the 4S is able to run the full version.
Siri, please enable bluetooth whenever I am in my car. Disable it when I am not.
Set and forget.
Good idea, but how would it know when you're in your car? Your house or work it can figure out from GPS, but a car changes location.
There was already Siri for that phone - the devs said they had to make compromises to get it to run on that hardware, while the 4S is able to run the full version.
There is still compromise - the heavy lifting is done on the server side. That can be done regardless of the device.
This is me patting your head, saying "there, there".
Don't give up yet. Very little info is available. But what's available so far won't do anything for your little sad face.
: ) thanks. I'm not too worried. I have great connectivity most places. Looking forward to getting the 4s when i'm eligible.
Siri, please enable bluetooth whenever I am in my car. Disable it when I am not.
Set and forget.
Lol.
"siri, manage my wifi and bluetooth, damn you.....ps...i love you."
On battery life - experience varies because we all live and work in spaces with different signal strengths. So to argue passionately about this is moot.
One issue that is not often discussed - iPhones occasionally go into a hot loop - the battery heats up for no apparent reason and is drained of >75% of its power within an hour. If you read enough fora on the internet, you'll see this problem raised by a number of users.
Wow! I have not heard of that one. I would hazard a W.A.G. that they all had Tom Tom installed? That app eats ram and battery power like there is no tomorrow (even when idle in the background y.m.m.v) until you kill it using task manager. Maybe less apparent on the iPhone 4 but very noticeable on 3gs.
According to the link, Phil Schiller himself said that part of Siri is on the server.
You can imagine because Siri needs an Internet connection to function.
We'll find out this week when we turn off Data in Settings then try to do something you can currently do with Voice Control on iOS 4.x, like placing a call or playing a track in the Music app.
I had the iPhone 3GS for a year, and I can definitely say that it had the shortest battery life of all iPhone models. The original iPhone had the best battery life: I usually charged it once every 2-3 days. The iPhone 4 has a much better battery life than the 3GS; I don't have to charge it every day.
Use the task manager to kill all apps that are not Apple apps. Then kill bluetooth and turn off 3g. I can reliably last 6 days which is one day longer then I would get with the original iPhone. It's not that the 3gs has a shorter battery life but that we have found more and more power intensive uses for it.
Use the task manager to kill all apps that are not Apple apps. Then kill bluetooth and turn off 3g. I can reliably last 6 days which is one day longer then I would get with the original iPhone. It's not that the 3gs has a shorter battery life but that we have found more and more power intensive uses for it.
There is no Task Manager in iOS. That's a Windows feature. I think you are referring to Fast App Switcher which simply lists all the apps you've previously accessed in the order you accessed them. Now you can remove them from FAS and if they had active processing they will be killed, but the multitasking offered to developers is controlled and you're not going to save RAM and CPU cycles by removing apps in that list that have been sitting there for awhile.
You can test this by restarting your device to see every app in that order as it was before the restart. Further proof it's a Fast App Switcher and not a Task Manager/Activity Monitor is that the app you are in will not be listed in the list until after you leave the app.
How about a more suitable question:
"Siri, find the nearest strip club to my present location"
Amusingly enough, living in the bible belt (Georgia), Siri would simply say every third exit off of i-75!
We'll find out this week when we turn off Data in Settings then try to do something you can currently do with Voice Control on iOS 4.x, like placing a call or playing a track in the Music app.
Looking forward to that. For whatever it's worth, Apple's website indicates that "Siri is available in Beta only on iPhone 4S and requires Internet access."
to me it will always be "iPhone 4 Steve"
Yeah!!!