Apple Critics Comparing Battery Issue To Antennagate
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011The Apple iPhone 4S was a hit before it ever saw store shelves, selling more than 1 million pre-orders and then racking up 4 million sales in its first official weekend on the market. But the noise is growing louder over reported battery issues on the new device.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 176 pages on an Apple Support Communities thread called “iPhone 4S Battery Life?” The complaints started on Oct. 15, in the middle of the historic launch, and new posts continue to appear in the thread. In all, more than 2,600 comments have flooded the boards, and new discussions have branched off from there.
“My iPhone 4S battery seems terrible! Almost equivalent to my 3GS and its terrible battery life,” said an Apple forum poster from New Jersey who calls himself Scarface, in a post Oct. 15. “When I got my iPhone yesterday and restored from backup I noticed nothing really changed with minimal usage and standby!”
Apple Contacts Consumers
Although critics are making an issue of Apple’s silence, The Guardian reports that Apple engineers are contacting some iPhone 4S owners to investigate the reported battery life problems. Apple has yet to offer an official comment.
The Guardian reported one user was contacted by a senior Apple engineer who said he read a post and was “reaching out” to users for data. The user said engineer admitted it was an issue and that a fix would be released, then asked questions about his usage and asked if he could install a file on his phone that would retrieve some information. However, The Guardian did not disclose the name of the person quoted.
Shorter battery life shouldn’t come as a surprise to iPhone 4S owners — at least not the ones who read the spec sheet for the new device. The iPhone battery life…
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