iPhone 4S Release Date: Apple Customers File 2,300 Battery Life Complaints
Apple forum members have been widely reporting that the iPhone 4S battery life drains away at an alarmingly fast rate.
A lengthy thread dedicated to the iPhone 4S's battery problem has already surfaced.
The thread currently has 2,300 messages, 160 pages and has been viewed more than 160,000 times.
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Apple customer forum user andyfromsomerville said, "I've had the 4S since the launch day, and I've been pretty pleased with battery life. Until this weekend. My phone just went from a full charge to empty within <14h standby time and about 95 minutes of light usage."
Another user, John Goldman, noted that his iPhone 4S "seems to lose 1% every 3-4 minutes, even when locked/asleep."
Some users of the device blame the low battery life on the many applications being run on it.
Some of those apps include iCloud, Siri, Location Services, Bluetooth, Calendar/Reminder Sync, and automated diagnostic transmissions to Apple, among others.
The iDownloadBlog website blames the iPhone 4S's battery issues on a bug in iOS 5's location service.
Thomas Clabrun, writer for Information Week, gave his opinion on what may be the cause for this issue: "In general, anything that utilizes network connectivity is going to drain more power than an app that just runs locally. In my case, my battery performance is poor and I have not enabled iCloud, so iCloud isn't a suspect for me."
Apple has contacted iPhone 4S owners and asked them to install performance profiling software, The Guardian has reported.
Apple's iOS 5 already includes a capability program that reports diagnostic information to Apple. However, the standard diagnostic routines do not provide data that Apple engineers need to provide a solution to the battery issue.
Apple went on to say that the iPhone 4S's battery should be good for eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet usage and 200 hours in standby mode.
The company hasn't offered any comments on the iPhone 4S's battery life problem thus far, though.
