Tech/Apple geeks everywhere have been curious as to why the Apple 4S has 100 fewer hours of standby time than its predecessors.
Indeed, It claims only a maximum of 200 hours of standby time now, versus 300 hours with older iPhones.
I’ve got another guess as to why this is so: You can no longer force your iPhone to operate only on 2G (EDGE).
I might have been the only iPhone user to deliberately use a slower cellular network most of the time, but I’d done so to reduce battery consumption while the phone was idle.
With light usage and limiting the phone to 2G (turning 3G on only when I needed it) I could go three, four or sometimes even five days between recharges.
As I giddily unwrapped and set up the iPhone 4S that arrived this morning, I flicked through the menus only to find the “enable 3G” option is gone.
Too bad. It was a neat little trick to help reduce energy consumption.
Perhaps, if I beg hard enough, Apple will bring it back?