Honestly it is hilarious how good it is. I will get 30plus hours out of it before i have to charge.
PP, I'm sure it's a great phone, and I really want your honeymoon phase to last for several years, but let us have some realistic perspective. The only reason you are getting 30 plus hours from it is because
(1) Your usage is quite lightweight. Not a bad thing at all, but it factors into your battery life is all I'm saying.
(2) IOS has a crippled version of multitasking. This matters very little from a usage point-of-view, but technically this aspect of IOS is inferior to android, and provides the illusion of longer battery life.
Iphone 5's battery is 1440 mAH. This is
puny by android standards. The Droid Razr Maxx has a 3300 mAH battery. Motorola gets an awful rap for their clunky user interface, but their phones are amazing with respect to call quality, battery life and durability. Heck, even my 1.5 year-old HTC Incredible 2 has a 1450 mAH battery.
I say this as someone who loves Apple devices, uses them heavily (Macbook Pro, Ipad 3) and will continue to do so for a long time to come: Basically,
almost none of the iphone 5's technical capabilities can hold a candle to the more powerful androids. That is not Apple's goal at all, and they don't even try to beat the android phones on technical specifications. However, the iphone wins
by a long margin on user-friendliness, predictability and the marriage of hardware and software design.
DRII said:
And the 5's screen does look ridiculously odd! Apple legnthened it but kept the same width , makes absolutely no sense.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is
ridiculously odd, but yes, it looks kinda strange from a design point-of-view. Before all the photos of the iphone leaked out, I was fantasizing that Apple may come out with a phone exactly the same size as the iphone 4s, but without a home button, and an intelligently hidden speaker that would give it a larger screen
. Now that would have been quite awesome!