This will be a short one. I've been fighting with a work issue for the last 4 hours to no avail, and I'm pretty sure I'm coming down with something as all I've been doing is clearing my throat repeatedly. I did have a pretty tasty margarita with some coworkers, and when I got home, Fernando greeted me with the biggest smile. So all was not bad today.
A friend asked me about the battery life controversy, and I thought that could be my subject for today. However, my answer is one that Steve Jobs would probably be happy with. When I got my Palm Pre 2.5 years ago, my battery life consisted of about 6 hours, and that was if I didn't do much talking. It took many software updates, and the work of many talented people, most unaffiliated with Palm, to not only speed up the phone, but enhance it in many ways, one of which was a screen state processor governor, where the processor sped up when the screen was on, and slowed down when the screen was off. That got me close to 10 hours, still with minimal phone use. If I had a marathon conference call day when I worked from home, forget it. I had Touchstone chargers everywhere. I had two spare batteries. And I still found myself with a dead phone a few times a week. So I get the iPhone, and I can go somewhere in the realm of 8 - 10 hours on those marathon call days. I can normally get 16 - 18 hours with minimal use. I assume that's bad for previous model and/or OS revision iPhone users, but for me, it's fan-damn-tastic. So whenever they push the .0.1 (or whatever number they come up with) release with the minor bug fixes and most likely battery consumption enhancements, I'll be an even happier camper. I've also got 4 AC chargers one the way, so there will be chargers everywhere that there were Touchstones, but more for my piece of mind than an actual necessity. In conclusion, the weak 4s battery is better than my Pre's strongest battery. I think the new amount of push notifications is what is killing folks' batteries. Shut some of them off and their battery life would probably improve significantly.
That's it. Let me get these few hours of sleep and hopefully not wake up worse than I feel now...
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