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(CNN) — It all sounds eerily familiar. A new iPhone. Massive sales. Then, an apparent glitch that, while it doesn’t affect everyone, is prevalent enough to irk customers and catch the eyes of tech journalists everywhere.
Poor battery life on the iPhone 4S, released on October 14 to great fanfare and record sales, has been the new model’s Achilles’ heel in the minds of many users.
While complaints about the perceived problem haven’t reached the fevered pitch that last year’s iPhone 4 release saw about its so-called “death grip” problem, they don’t seem to be going away.
There were, of course, the expected number of early-adopter quibbles with the phone: from troubles with new carrier Sprint, to a sometimes slow-moving camera, to limits on the voice-activated Siri “personal assistant” outside the United States.
But as most of those gripes either got sorted or users got used to the limitations, complaints about the phone’s battery life have persisted.
A post on the Apple support forums, begun on October 15 to discuss battery problems, was still active Tuesday — two weeks and 185 pages worth of comments later.
“I purchased what I thought was a top-of-the-line product only to be terribly disappointed,” one user wrote Tuesday. “This is my first iPhone and may well be my last.”
Battery life was a frequent complaint about the iPhone 3GS, but concerns about the phone’s short battery life seemed to have been addressed on the next-generation iPhone 4.
According to Apple’s official specs, the iPhone 4S should have enough juice in the battery for up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet surfing, 10 hours of video viewing and 200 hours on standby. (All activities on a 3G connection — 2G and wireless have different figures).
All of those numbers are within an hour or so of the iPhone 4, except for one. The older phone’s specifications promise 300 hours of standby power: a full 50% more than the 4S.
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And according to the dev team it should be out and ready next week! It was a long wait, but we will get there eventually haha