Are you still a little paranoid about the iPhone location-tracking file? Are you afraid that Apple or your carrier is tracking your every move?
Lucky for you, there's a new jailbreak tweak called Auto Location that automatically toggles your iPhone's Location Services on and off. When you're not using an app that requires GPS, Auto Location will turn the iPhone's Location Services off. When you open an app that requires Location Services, Auto Location turns it back on...
Chalk this one up to another interesting innovation involving Apple's iPhone. We've shown you the 360-degree lens and the dual sim case, now let me introduce you to the Wi.U. It's the smartest portable battery charger you've ever seen.
The Wi.U case pairs the iPhone with the battery charger through the device's 30-pin connector. The charger has the ability to detect when your iPhone battery is getting low, and will automatically start charging it up...
According to a recent patent, it appears that Apple is interested in making its own external, rechargeable battery pack. There are plenty of portable batteries for the iPhone on the market already, but it looks like Apple might introduce a new charging cable with its own rechargeable battery.
A future charging cable from Apple could supply multiple charge cycles when disconnected from a power source...
Now that you've had a couple of days with iOS 4.3.1, for those of you that updated, we're wondering how the latest OS is going for you so far.
When iOS 4.3 was released, there were several bugs/issues reported by the iPhone community in the new OS, one of the major ones being poor battery life. At the time, a good amount of early iOS 4.3 adopters attributed the poor battery life to auto-lock issues, causing the screen to stay on for hours at a time. The problem seemed to be affecting only iPhone and iPod Touch 4G owners.
As we reported last week, iOS 4.3 comes with serious battery drains for some users. While I haven't updated my iPhone 4 to 4.3 yet (I need my unlock), I can tell that the battery on my iPad 2 4.3 isn't that great at all.
The guys over at BGR got their hands on a 4.3.1 build and were didn't see anything new in there, besides the fact that battery life seems a bit better. They didn't conduct any kind of scientific test on it so it's hard to verify if battery is indeed better...
Here at iDB, we've certainly warned you of the dangers in upgrading to iOS 4.3. Until today, that warning was only meant for jailbreakers. Well, it looks like even stock users have a reason to hold off.
Several iLounge editors are reporting severe battery drain in their iDevices, after upgrading to iOS 4.3. Their experiences coincide with users across several Apple Support threads, dedicated to this very topic...
One of the biggest things I'm concerned with on my smart phone is battery life. What good is a wireless phone if it always needs to be plugged in? With some of my older iPhones (iPhone 2G, 3G), it was a major issue. But since I've gotten my iPhone 4, it's never really been a problem.
I've had Android and Blackberries for work phones in the past, and I can honestly say the iPhone 4 is the best when it comes to battery life. Well it looks like my experience are in line with most everybody else's, as cnet test results confirm that the iPhone is top dog...
Earlier this week, we announced a giveaway of 5 ZAGGsparq mobile chargers amounting to $100 per unit. We reviewed the ZAGGsparq, and the folks at ZAGG decided to give us five ZAGGsparq's for a giveaway to our readers! That's a total value of $500. Not too shabby.
Winners of the ZAGGsparq giveaway have been selected. Congrats to the five lucky winners!
Rumors regarding the next iteration of the iPhone have been flying left and right. If you've been following the rumor mill, you know that there's a lot of potential innovations to be implemented into Apple's next iPhone.
Will Apple release several different iPhone models at once? Will the next iPhone be considerably smaller than its predecessors? Will Apple release the iPhone 5 on all carriers with a universal baseband?
These, among others, are all questions being asked about the next iPhone. Let's examine the rumors and try and make sense of it all...
With newer, more powerful dual and quad-core processors being introduced, these processors require more and more energy to operate. Apple realizes this and is looking into possible resolutions for better battery life while maintaining the same slim and sleek profile the iPhone 4 currently has.
Cupertino has filed a new patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office titled “Increasing Energy Density in Rechargeable Lithium Battery Cells,” which does just that...
Delta Airlines, the world's largest airline, has been making great strides to stay relevant and continue providing helpful services to its customers. They have the largest fleet of WiFi-enabled planes, and they are now the first airline to start rolling out official charging stations in their airport terminals.
The technological traveler is always worrying about the state of their device's battery life before they board for a long plane trip. iPhones haven't exactly been known for their outstanding battery life.
Normally, one would have to scour the far corners of an airport gate to try to find an open outlet to get a last minute charge. Last week, Delta Airlines started installing charging stations for all kinds of devices in the gates of 19 major American airports...
As we reported earlier this week, some of you who have recently updated your baseband to 06.15.00 to jailbreak and unlock have been facing battery drains issues. The problem doesn’t actually come from UltraSn0w or RedSn0w, but from the hacktivation process, for those of you who have hacktivated instead of activating the phone with an official carrier.
The issue comes from iOS 4.1 and 4.2.1 which constantly look for valid push certificates, either via wifi or your data plan (Edge or 3G). This runs down you battery and may even cause your iPhone to overheat. If you didn't hacktivate your iPhone but simply activated it with an official carrier (ie AT&T in the US), you shouldn't have any problem.
If on the other end you did hacktivate your iPhone, you might be experiencing the battery drain issue. Fortunately, there is now a fix for it...