Apple iPhone 3GS Battery Life Playing Games, part 3

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

With Wi-Fi off, but everything else cranked up, it lasted 2 hours 37 minutes, which is 1 minute 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:

0:00 Real Racing
0:36 Galaxy on Fire
2:04 Siberian Strike

Settings:

Wi-Fi off -- The only change from the baseline in part 1
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

I'm surprised this didn't show a bigger difference, but it could very well be within the margin of error. Turning Wi-Fi off will apparently not save you much if you're still on 3G fetching data. But, at these settings, it is very likely that the true difference between fetching/pushing over Wi-Fi or 3G cannot be seen; considering brightness was the biggest killer on the iPod touch, it's probably very similar here. Thus, I shall turn the brightness all the way down on the next iteration and see just how long you can play as long as you're in the dark or don't care too much about...seeing the game...yeah!

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• iPhone
• 3GS
• gaming
• battery
• app
• store
• games
• doom
• assassin's
• creed
• siberian
• strike

[xXxLoveSetsunaxXx]

if you play a lot of games on your iphone without wi-fi, does it charge you money?