Battery Reconditioning

How does Apple’s newest phone compare in battery life during constant gaming?

With 3G off, but everything else cranked up, it lasted 2 hours 47 minutes, which is 10 minutes longer than the baseline (see part 1). This video is a time-lapse, showing a minute of gameplay every second.

Games featured, in order of appearance:

DOOM Resurrection (I still love this game)
0:45 assin’s Creed Lite (This game is so awesome, I reached the end of the free version and had to go buy the full version!)
1:00 Siberian Strike (BIG fan of Tyrian; as such, I thoroughly enjoyed this one!)
1:48 assin’s Creed, full version

Settings:

Wi-Fi on and connected
3G off — The only change from the baseline in part 1
Sound at 50% volume
Full brightness (no auto-bright)
Location services on (and MobileMe “Find My iPhone” activated)
Bluetooth on (but nothing connected to it)
Fetch Mail Every 15 minutes
Push Mail On
Push Notifications On
Alert Sounds and Vibrations On

So, if you’re gonna be gaming and you need to push and fetch email & IMs in the background, you can at least save a bit of battery life by turning 3G off. It’s apparently not the biggest killer while you’ve got WiFi on as well, so in the next video, I will turn 3G back on and wifi off and see how it handles the fetching and pushing all on 3G.

Subscriptions will be rewarded with leg humps. And also notification of when I upload my next video. (But don’t watch them the very second they show up, cause I’ll likely be doing the AudioSwap thing to give you some music to listen to.)

Duration : 0:2:48

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Technorati Tags: 3GS, App, assassin's, battery, creed, doom, games, gaming, iphone, siberian, Store, strike

How does Apple’s newest phone compare in battery life during constant gaming?

With 3G off, but everything else cranked up, it lasted 2 hours 47 minutes, which is 10 minutes longer than the baseline (see part 1). This video is a time-lapse, showing a minute of gameplay every second.

Games featured, in order of appearance:

DOOM Resurrection (I still love this game)
0:45 assin’s Creed Lite (This game is so awesome, I reached the end of the free version and had to go buy the full version!)
1:00 Siberian Strike (BIG fan of Tyrian; as such, I thoroughly enjoyed this one!)
1:48 assin’s Creed, full version

Settings:

Wi-Fi on and connected
3G off — The only change from the baseline in part 1
Sound at 50% volume
Full brightness (no auto-bright)
Location services on (and MobileMe “Find My iPhone” activated)
Bluetooth on (but nothing connected to it)
Fetch Mail Every 15 minutes
Push Mail On
Push Notifications On
Alert Sounds and Vibrations On

So, if you’re gonna be gaming and you need to push and fetch email & IMs in the background, you can at least save a bit of battery life by turning 3G off. It’s apparently not the biggest killer while you’ve got WiFi on as well, so in the next video, I will turn 3G back on and wifi off and see how it handles the fetching and pushing all on 3G.

Subscriptions will be rewarded with leg humps. And also notification of when I upload my next video. (But don’t watch them the very second they show up, cause I’ll likely be doing the AudioSwap thing to give you some music to listen to.)

Duration : 0:2:48

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Technorati Tags: 3GS, App, assassin's, battery, creed, doom, games, gaming, iphone, siberian, Store, strike

You remember my iPod touch torture test. How does Apple’s newest phone compare in battery life during constant gaming?

This time, I started with the worst case scenario, and it lasted 2 hours 36 minutes. This video is a time-lapse, showing a minute of gameplay every second.

Games featured, in order of appearance:

DOOM Resurrection (I love this game)
1:27 i Love Katamari Lite (eternally frustrating as always)
1:32 2XL Supercross Lite
1:37 Star Defense
2:06 Glyder Free (reached 20% warning in this one)
2:20 Hero of Sparta (an old favorite… got the 10% warning shortly after starting this one)

When the phone was out of view early in the video, it’s because I was taking a call. Also, sorry about the long auto-pilot in Star Defense. Somebody came to the door, and then I took the opportunity to cook lunch. Battery was lasting longer than I had expected

Settings:

Wi-Fi on and connected
3G on
Sound at 50% volume
Full brightness (no auto-bright)
Location services on (and MobileMe “Find My iPhone” activated)
Bluetooth on (but nothing connected to it)
Fetch Mail Every 15 minutes
Push Mail On
Push Notifications On
Alert Sounds and Vibrations On

In the next videos, I’ll see what features you’re gonna have to turn off in order to get decent gaming battery life out of this sucker.

Duration : 0:2:37

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Technorati Tags: 3GS, App, battery, doom, games, gaming, iphone, Store

With the guys going MIA, the CTV Girls are kickin it full gear with tech news with the low down on new Samsung phones, awesome DigiCams, Audiophile underwear, and much much more. Check it out!

Sites:
AOL acquires Patch and Going

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10262680-36.html

Casio’s new Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-H10 – Extreme Battery Life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061103075.html

Samsung’s Android Phone Coming to T-Mobile

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/samsung-android-2/

No Charge cell phones

http://www.switched.com/2009/06/11/future-cell-phones-could-pull-electricity-out-of-thin-air/

Match.com Posts Fake Profiles

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0939287520090609

The Future of Websites?

http://ytbizblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/thinking-outside-website.html

A well-traveled family photo

http://news.aol.com/article/christmas-card-photo-in-czech-ad/522807

http://www.extraordinarymommy.com/blog/

Web 2.0 is the millionth word in English language

http://www.switched.com/2009/06/11/web-2-0-becomes-millionth-english-word/

http://com.puter.tv/computertv/blogs/bettys-blog/

NVidia Updates its notebook drivers.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14178/34/

Audiophile Underwear.

http://www.geeksugar.com/3276085

Windows 7 auto Shut Down

http://gizmodo.com/5287086/reminder-windows-7-beta-will-start-shutting-down-on-you-on-71

Asus Has Secret Console “Better Than Wii”

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-nintendo-wii,8043.html#xtor=RSS-181

HP offers dual-core Athlon Neo in new Pavilion dv2z

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17046

Sarah Sharp, has coded the first USB 3.0 driver for Linux

http://gizmodo.com/5286999/the-first-usb-30-driver-for-linux-or-any-os-is-here

Doom Resurrection for iPhone is due next week.

http://gizmodo.com/5286884/doom-resurrection-for-iphone-due-next-week-heres-the-trailer

Floating Garden Freshwater aquarium naturally filters fish poop into fertilizer.

http://gizmodo.com/5286777/floating-garden-freshwater-aquarium-naturally-filters-fishpoop-into-fertilizer

Lego digital camera, MP3 player, boombox, and walkie-talkie.

http://gizmodo.com/5286681/lego-now-making-gadgets-including-a-stop-motion-video-camera

Corsair’s HX750 and HX850 modular power supply

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16987

LG Wristwatch phone
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/LG-wristwatch-phone-launch-price,7980.html#xtor=RSS-181

Duration : 0:18:42

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Don Bluth’s Banjo The Woodpile Cat Adventure Game.
I found this while do a search for Space Ace and Dragon’s Lair. It’s been released on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. amazing graphics and Dragon’s Lair style game play, check it out!

Duration : 0:3:50

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Technorati Tags: Ace, adventure, american, animation, arcade, banjo, bluth, cat, don, Dragons, game, iphone, itouch, Lair, laser, movie, nimh, of, secret, Space, tail, woodpile