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I have always been impressed by Apples products (I use them to earn a living after all) & was planning to upgrade my tired old iphone 3G to an iphone 5...but now I'm having second thoughts.

When a friend handed me his S3 I immediately felt a little wow'd by the screen size, responsiveness & general look / feel of the phone, this new iphone does not look like it will give me the same "wow factor".

I am extremely disappointed that Apple have not worked harder to improve the battery life, it has been & remains pathetic, primarily for this reason I will not be buying an iphone 5.

Come on Apple, I want to give you my money - but please start putting some creative innovations back into your products, if you cannot do that then at least give us a phone with a battery which can last for a full / busy day.



i've never had any trouble with my battery life while i have friends with android phones that say the lte drains it in 1.5 hours. I'm not sure what you are hoping for, but i don't think switching from apple is going to help your battery life.


My hope is a very simple one, I was hoping that I could buy a phone, charge it and that it would not run out of power within a few hours of heavy usage, my co-worker gets a full day of challenging battery use from his S3, which I have been a little more impressed with.

Impressive screens & faster chips are all well and good but only if their is enough power in the dam thing to actually keep the device powered on.




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