Now that Google Now's on the iPhone, constantly being helpful in the background, there are rumours flying around that it's nuking phone batteries because it's hammering Location Services. Google says that's not possible, but what are you folks seeing? Read More >>
Featured comment by st1ngray:
"iPhone5 -> 6% in 2 hours. Not used for anything else, just on standby with Google Now accessing Location services.
Its probably a fraction more ..." More »
If you've got bugs in your products you'd assume the company who made them is going to fix them, but it's reassuring that Apple's come out and said it specifically. Apparently Cupertino's identified the bug that's killing iOS 6.1 iPhone batteries, and is in the process of crushing the life out of it. Meanwhile, here's what you have to do to stop it for now. Read More >>
Featured comment by gizmodester:
"The misses has an 4s and the battery life is shocking - since her last update a couple of days ago.
I have the 5 and I did use exchange for the fir..." More »
We all know annoying advertising in free apps nukes your battery, but did you know that poorly designed mobile sites are eating away at your precious power way more than they need to too? According to some Stanford researchers (pdf) there’s a surprise winner all this – the notoriously heavy full-blown Gmail’s lightweight mobile brother is apparently the “greenest” mobile site of them all. Read More >>