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No, it always has a WiFi or HSPA data connection, and I haven't disabled any of the usual suspects (e.g. syncing or location services). Of course the display is off most of the time, and that's the big battery hog. The screen is on maybe an average of half an hour a day.
That’s a nice trick, making the battery last longer by not using the phone. I’ll try it myself.
I have one wish: that the iOS programmers at Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code and that they stop leaning on the next, faster, generation processor so hard that any phone that is just one generation older than the leatest and greatest becomes slow as shit. My iPhone used to be fast. Most things used to be snappy. Now it is slow as shit. From the address book lookups (which I have timed to usually clo…
> Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code Sorry but what ? Apple has one of the best concurrency implementations on ANY platform. GCD is superbly designed and combined with blocks makes concurrency trivial. The biggest problem is that developers often try and over optimise. > which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds This is definitely not normal. > iOS…
> This is definitely not normal.
Big consolation to users experiencing this! That's a Linux-level response to user concerns.
I have one wish: that the iOS programmers at Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code and that they stop leaning on the next, faster, generation processor so hard that any phone that is just one generation older than the leatest and greatest becomes slow as shit. My iPhone used to be fast. Most things used to be snappy. Now it is slow as shit. From the address book lookups (which I have timed to usually clo…
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This hasn't always been the case. I've switched between Apple and Android about three times. The most recent time, just a few months ago, I stuck with Android. Because while the long tail of apps on iPhone look and work better, the top-100/top-200 apps an Android are roughly on par with those same apps on iPhone. Since those are all I use, the question turns to OS feature-sets, and Android has iOS beat on that front.…
And the top 3 apps I use many times per day: email, maps, calendar are way way better on Android at least if you are using gmail. Without exaggeration, if you use gmail the main experience on Android crushes iOS.
Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Whenever I read articles like this one I'm left wondering whether my life is distinctly different from most. I generally have a pretty good idea about my calendar - where I'll be going that day, and what restaurant I'll grab a bite to eat in if that's part of my agen…
I was very skeptical of Google Now originally, and disabled it after a week on the Nexus S. It never gave any useful info, and indeed made it unlikely the battery would last the day. But with the Nexus 4 I left it on, and have been finding it useful regularly ever since. Zero-action directions and timetables for getting home after a night out. Directions to local places I've recently searched for on maps. The automat…
That's not a very location-aware use case (at least not GPS-granular-location-aware), but I dig Google Now for that kind of thing. Also when it shows me when my wife's flight is delayed or something, all because she forwarded me a flight itinerary from her travel agent. One of those things that seems like magic--which is kinda silly because like most folks here I obviously get what the code probably looks like. But still seems like magic. I think that's what I like about Google Now--the little bits of occasional delight that it pushes down to me.
I have one wish: that the iOS programmers at Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code and that they stop leaning on the next, faster, generation processor so hard that any phone that is just one generation older than the leatest and greatest becomes slow as shit. My iPhone used to be fast. Most things used to be snappy. Now it is slow as shit. From the address book lookups (which I have timed to usually clo…
> Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code Sorry but what ? Apple has one of the best concurrency implementations on ANY platform. GCD is superbly designed and combined with blocks makes concurrency trivial. The biggest problem is that developers often try and over optimise. > which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds This is definitely not normal. > iOS…
I don't know if it was because I was running out of disk space, but taking photos and texting became absolutely terrible on my iPhone 4. iOS 6 made it even slower.
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Three days of battery life on the Nexus 4? That sounds like a dream. Do you put it on airplane mode when you're not using it or something?
I would agree with that. I get great battery life from my Nexus 4, around 3 to 4 days.
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Actually, Now's time goes under Maps- at least the location services, which are the big draw. I have all of the tracking enabled, and maps uses between 20 and 30% of my overall.
Oh, in that case, yeah, it is using a fair amount for me too -- don't get me wrong, I'm still at 85% after charging it this morning, but maps is showing about 30% of that.
Interestingly, GSam battery monitor (which I just got last week, and is really neat!) shows the number of times each app woke the device. I've been on for 4.5 hours, and Maps is at 441, with the next Android System at 85 and Google Search (which is Now) at 53.
Android System has also shown up more in usage % since I started having Now.
I think there's definitely a significant drain with Now. I've had it enabled since the Verizon release, somewhere around 12/20, but I think I will disable it at the start of next month and keep an eye on how it behaves. I certainly feel that my battery life has gone down since the upgrade.
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No, it always has a WiFi or HSPA data connection, and I haven't disabled any of the usual suspects (e.g. syncing or location services). Of course the display is off most of the time, and that's the big battery hog. The screen is on maybe an average of half an hour a day.
That’s a nice trick, making the battery last longer by not using the phone. I’ll try it myself.