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Originally Posted by HarryT
You certainly are a "power user", in the sense that you're using a lot of power  .
As I've said in another thread, my iPad spends most of its time in "airplane mode", with WiFi and 3G turned off. In that mode, reading for an hour uses about 2% of the battery, and I only recharge once a week, at which time the battery charge is normally around 30-40%. |
Hmm. I've been watching a lot of Dr. Who on my iPad. Never occurred to me to go to Airplane Mode while doing that. Even on the airplane. I don't have 3G, so in a way I'm always in Airplane Mode.
But it occurs to me that in addition to lessening the need for recharging, your approach also means that the battery will last longer overall, since there will be fewer full recharges per <insert time period.>
My iPad and my iPhone go on the charger every night, whether they need it or not. The iPad battery is astounding. I've never gone below 40% of the charge, even with intense usage. It looks to me like I'm getting more than an hour of use for 10% of the battery charge. I could probably go 3 or 4 days between charges.
My iPhone 4, on the other hand, seems to be using more charge than my previous iPhone G3. I am pretty sure I could get 12 hours of usage out of my iPad, but would expect half that out of the iPhone, assuming identical use.