One week into the joys of iPhone 3G ownership, there are a few issues some of us (or many of us even) are still getting to grips with – and getting battery life where we’d like it to be is certainly on that short list.
So it’s good to see a couple of posts today with short rundowns of some extended battery options for the iPhone 3G, to help it give it a boost. Geek.com has an article on this, with a couple of choices (though one is clearly not designed for the 3G and took some forcing to make work), and Gizmodo also has a good little list with a few handy battery helpers.
Most of the battery backs featured are relatively compact and bolt right on to the iPhone’s dock / charger connector. I’ve been testing (and will soon review) one of them, the Kensington Mini, with the V1 iPhone, and liking it a fair bit.
If you’re not getting the results you want with battery life so far, you may want to peruse a few of those choices and see if they’ll work for you.
In the meantime, I’m also finding my battery life is improving with some tight management of when certain services are on. More than anything, I’ve noticed a *huge* improvement once I scrapped Push and Fetch for email (and all the rest). I turned it off completely a couple of nights back and have seen a much, much better performance hit than I got with any other efforts so far.
I realize that for many folks push may be a necessity or a dealbreaker – but I’m not trading stocks or doing anything that is so time-sensitive that I really require this. I’ll take the much better battery life and check mail when I need to.
Have you got a good strategy for maximizing your iPhone 3G battery life worked out? Will you be looking at any accessory options in this area?
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