iPhone4S Battery Life Beats HTC Android Phones, Why ?

batteryfast.co.uk
October 14, 2011
iPhone4S Battery Life Beats HTC Android
Phones, Why ?
iPhone4S Battery Life Beats HTC Android
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No 4G LTE
In the year and a half since it came out, the iPhone 4s
specs have been beaten by Android "superphones" in
nearly every way: Screen size, processor power,
and wireless Internet speeds. But while most of the
reasons why someone might want an iPhone were
hard to explain using numbers, one of them wasn't:
battery life. Because while the iPhone 4 boasted 6
hours of web-browsing time, the HTC Thunderbolt
-- one of the super-est of the superphones - clocked
in at roughly two and a half.
Despite increasing in performance, the new iPhone
The iPhone 4S now offers HSPA+ "4G" wireless Inter-
4S also managed to improve on the battery life.
net speeds, which -- as one of the slides in Apple's
Here's how Apple manages it:
presentation showed -- are equivalent to those of
some HSPA+ 4G Android superphones. It doesn't use
Smaller size
a much faster 4G LTE connection, though, and those
connections are among the big reasons why Android
An enormous (but vibrant) AMOLED display, like
superphones have terrible battery life. Moreover,
on Google and Samsung's Nexus S, uses an enor-
as Anand Lal Shimpi of Anandtech explains, a 4G
mous amount of power. And Android smartphone
wireless radio means a bigger battery and bigger
screens have reached up into the 5-inch range (on
chassis ... which also helps to explain Android su-
the Samsung Galaxy Note) and beyond: The ori-
perphones' big screens.
ginal 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab was technically
able to make phone calls. The iPhone, in contrast,
Less RAM
has stayed at the same 3.5 inch screen size since its
creation, which is also one of the reasons it's able
RAM is different from the flash memory used as sto-
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rage by the iPhone 4S and other smartphones. Like
on a desktop or laptop computer, it's the iPhone's

short-term memory: The programs it's currently
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iPhone4S Battery Life Beats HTC Android Phones, Why ?
loaded into RAM, so that it can switch back and
forth between them more quickly. It's like keeping
something foremost in your mind, instead of having
to take a moment to remember it. The problem is,
in exchange for being faster RAMuses more battery
power. And RAM has to be turned on all the time,
in essence, so a device that has more RAM also has
lower battery life.
The iPhone 4S has the same 512 MB of RAM that the
iPhone 4 does, while Android super phones have up
to 1 GB (1024 MB). Just like with 4G LTE connection
speeds, this makes them much faster ... and makes
them burn out much faster as well.
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