My iPhone romance
One green blogger makes the iPhone switch and muses on the environmental impacts of techno-luxury.
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But I discovered there are a few ways to extend the battery power. Computer World offers a few good tips, including disabling the WiFi search (which is annoying anyway) and switching to "airplane" mode whenever you can.| Previous Post The digital paper war begins | Next Post U.S. Navy gets hybrid Destroyer |
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I find this level of rationalization to be completely unacceptable for someone who wants to be identified as a "green" blogger. You are severely lacking in credibility when you are so easily pulled into consumerism like this. It would be one level of being non-green if you'd just bought an iPhone, but to have blogged about how it was a good purchase in a "green" blog is atrocious.
I am looking forward to making that switch. However, I almost didn't read the article because of the misuse of that first word.
Great tips on saving energy for your phone. The more "work" your phone has to do, the more power it's gonna use. It's that simple. I'd totally forgotten about how energy intensive the Wi-Fi search is. Thanks so much!
P.S.I still love my first generation iPhone which holds a charge for me for 3 days or so-kind of amazing really.
I am very similar to your situation, the iPhone is like a significant other, my previous 3g model broke and I live far from an apple store thats 3 hours away and I could not bare the separation i actually went out and purchased the iPhone 3GS. The only issue is apple was praising the battery life for the 3GS over the 3G and with my 3g i would charge it every 2 days in the evening and with the 3gs it's every evening every day.
As you said it may have a few flaws, but even with those flaws.... More
Turn off Push email and you'll double your battery life. I get a good 2 days without and am quite happy to have the phone only check for email every 15 minutes. If you turn off 3G you'll get another doublng of your battery life.
Just be aware that all other 3G phones are often even worse than the iPhone battery wise. The Palm Pre in particular is terrible if you try to do any multitasking.
-Mart
