Comments on: Report Claims that iPhone 5 Battery Life May Be Affected by Cellular Signal Strength

By: Muslim.

Muslim. — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:05:00 +0000

I have to charge my iphone for 24 for hours to reach 100% and ,battery dies in 12 ores.AND I JUST BOUGHT IT.I HOPE ITS GONNA GET BATTER >.<

By: piss off customer!

piss off customer! — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:02:00 +0000

i actually miss my iphone 4s. damn it! the battery life was way better! i barely even use the damn iphone5 to check up on emails,etc. and the battery is totally drained!! gosh damn it i hate apples!! argh!! i knew i should have went with something else!! i can’t even go anywhere without bringing along my damn charger cause I know i’ll be needing it asap! annoying!!! i’ll be at the mall charging my phone…i’ll be in class charging my phone…i’ll be at work charging my phone! APPLE!! your such a rip off!! cheap ass battery!! i bet they’re gonna come out with a extra battery charger that you can put on your phone like the iphone4s which is gonna cost like $400!!

By: CK

CK — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:19:00 +0000

NEWSFLASH: Roses are red, sky is blue, phones under weak signal areas will have its radio work harder to maintain communication with towers thus draining battery life faster. There is nothing new about that, it is a true fact that the iphone 5’s battery is nowhere as good as the previous generation, weak signal or not. Let’s all hope that an update will have enough tweaks to provide balance thus extending the battery life.

By: GabbaGabba

GabbaGabba — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000

My iPhone 5 is at 72% after checking email and reading half an article and this article. I used it for 58 minutes with like 1 hour 20 standby time. What gives? It dies so quickly with light use. I had a droid x before this and the first iPhone before that and never have I had so many battery issues.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:00:00 +0000

My iPhone 4 had 4-5 bars of cellular signal in my office. It had the same in my house. Now, my new iPhone 5 has far less – 2-3 bars on a good day, sometimes 1 bar. Any idea what causes this significant difference between the two models?

By: Matt Fraser

Matt Fraser — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:42:00 +0000

The battery life on my iphone 5 is incredibly poor and I am EXTREMELY disappointed. It dies within 6 hours and I should have to shut all of the features off to extend the battery. What the flip is the point of having the features if you can’t use them.

By: MarioGV

MarioGV — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:24:00 +0000

My iPhone battery will be at 100% charge-then only to have it last about 5 hrs & within those 5 hrs I haven’t used it much, been outside for good reception. I even went inside an Apple store to have it checked which they verified all is well!

The iPhone 5 battery is terrible!!! I think I am going back to my old iPhone 4, the “Steve Jobs” era of building products properly!

By: hdz062

hdz062 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:30:00 +0000

my battery life goes down 1% almost after every regular text message i send! Have you heard that one before? (iPhone 5)

By: Marvin Nakajima

Marvin Nakajima — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:06:12 +0000

I believe high battery drain is common in that situation for ALL cellphones .. It’s more of a surprise that this is actually news to people. One of the reasons you don’t leave your cellphone on in a plane is for battery drain reasons. Kinda hinted at by the “Airplane mode” name ya’know. 😛

By: jhrogersii

jhrogersii — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:20:50 +0000

I always found this to be true with older models, as well. My 4 and 4S would drain much faster in buildings where signal would come and go. Anytime signal is lost, the phone has to actively search for it again at a regular interval, so it makes sense that this would kill the battery.

Have you tried switching off LTE while you are at school? It would be interesting to see if that helped any.

By: Mockman

Mockman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:23:17 +0000

Yikes! Is this headline for real? Of course signal strength affects battery life. How do you think a cell phone works?

If you’re going to write about wireless technology, it might be worth learning something about it. My apologies if this sounds rude but this is appalling.

By: Northerner

Northerner — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:20:03 +0000

Not to be a wiseass or anything. This specific bug or whatever you would like to call it has been a fact since radiowaves where invented or atleast discovered and used for other stuff than radioactive waves from the sky.

Thus it is something you could call a physics law, much like gravity.
The closer to a planet you are, the more it pulls. The same comes with transmitters and receivers (both which are found inside ALL cellphones) this means that the better reception youve got, the less energy it requires to keep a connection.

This means – NO PHONE EVER WILL EVER BE IN ANOTHER WAY THAN THIS. Atleast as long as they are based on radiowaves, which in case you wonder, is not the best way, though the only way, to keep a connection over long distances. Example, try call curiosty, every word said will take a few minutes to reach the destination, aswell as shitloads of energy to keep the data intact and not spread over a to wide area to be hard to receive.