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Re:Battery life: Apple's solving for x by swombat on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @06:01AM (#8879049)
In my experience, those days when I need the extra bit of battery life are almost always at events, or while travelling. I can spot those days in advance, they're not surprises.

So I found a remarkably simple and obvious solution: I spent £50 and bought an external battery pack, something like http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAVPower-15000mAh-External-Generatio... . It charges overnight, weighs not all that much at the bottom of a shoulder bag, but on those crucial days when battery is getting slim, I can just pull a cable out, plug it into my phone, and bingo: the phone is charged.

It's capable of charging an iPhone several times over so easily solves the problem for you and even some of your friends.

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Re:Battery life: Apple's solving for x by moe on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @06:51AM (#8879196)
and bingo: the phone is charged.

Isn't it more like "Bingo: now I have a battery pack dangling from my phone for the next few hours"?

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Re:Battery life: Apple's solving for x by swombat on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:11AM (#8879263)
Nope. iPhones tend to charge most of the battery in about an hour with a decent charger, so you sit down for a presentation or two, while still tweeting/etc, and by the time the presentations are done your phone is charged again.
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Re:Battery life: Apple's solving for x by Someone1234 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:57AM (#8880588)
I was recently at the airport and the airport was nice enough to provide power plugs. I happen to be sitting next to them for about 1.5 hours and counted six phones, one Samsung Galaxy S3, and a 3DS.

I used to own a battery pack too, back when I had an iPhone, it was a required accessory unfortunately. Since then I've owned a Samsung Note (1), LG G2, and Sony Z3, and all three of them last 2-3 days, and I have no need for a battery pack.

Even if size was a concern I could purchase a Sony Z3 Compact which is "iPhone 6 sized" but has twice the battery life or more.

Back in the iPhone 4 (ish) day the iPhone had "impressive" battery life. However Apple has stood still while everyone else has continuously improved. Now most non-Apple phones (Galaxy S5, LG G3, Sony Z3, Note 4, Windows Phone, etc) last substantially longer than Apple unless you're buying an unbranded piece of junk.

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