iPhone 4 Battery Life Part 2 - 3D games, minimum settings

So, is the iPhone 4's battery life really longer? How much longer? Let's find out by of course playing hours and hours of games on it!

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For this test, I turned everything off or down to the minimum and it lasted 6 hours and 36 minutes. (!)

Minimum brightness
No sound
No vibration
Airplane mode (no cell, wifi, Bluetooth or GPS)

As always, I conduct extremely meticulous, scientific tests to ensure that my results are always consistent and comparable....yeah, right. But this is a rough idea of what you can expect out of a typical charge cycle with these settings and this gameplay.

The games played:

0:00 Cro-Mag Rally
1:00 Waveblazer
2:00 Heavy Gunner +
2:35 Super Monkey Ball 2
4:00 Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Music for the video: Musicshake artist pooj. Song titled: PHOENIX

http://eng.musicshake.com/Listen/Song/SongContent/?CONTEST_NUM=56642

So, if you find yourself up late at night in a place where you don't want to disturb anybody with sound, and don't feel like using it as a phone or Internet device, you can get at least a good 6 hours of game time out of it.

Yes, I have spent entirely too much time playing around with this stuff.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• apple
• iPhone 4
• battery life
• battery test
• 3D games
• app store
• Cro-Mag Rally
• Waveblazer
• Heavy Gunner
• HeavyGunner
• SMB2
• Super Monkey Ball 2
• C&C
• Command & Conquer Red Alert

[ronakamrmagic]

I have noticed with certain games that are 2d you can get more playtime out of then you can with 3d. you should check that i think with just 2d playing in this setting you had for this video you would probably get close to 7 in half hours and with just 3d it would be 5 in half maybe 6 so that's not bad for this phone. with the iphone being thinner i wonder how they will fit a bigger battery and get more battery life with the new ipod touch since they like to make their products thinner

[flurffmeister]

@ronakamrmagic This is absolutely correct - 2D games don't tax the processor and graphics card nearly as much (save for maybe physics calculation-intensive games such as Aqua Forest). So, with 2D games, you'll get more battery life. As for the new iPod touch, they'll probably move to a similar, squared off design that gives them room to cram things into the edges like they did with the iPhone 4 and make the battery a bit bigger while keeping a slim profile. Wonder if they'll do that to the nano.

[applefreak32]

hey flurffmeister where do you find these really cool games i normaly dont see them in the top charts what do you type in the app store i must know

[flurffmeister]

@applefreak32 Some I find through the featured apps, some through the top charts, but mostly, I just listen to the discussion on Twitter, IRC, podcasts, and forums to see which games people are finding.

[manyax1111]

Not much as i hoped. İ expected about 10 hours but whatever. Thank you for trying that.

[flurffmeister]

@manyax1111 it's pretty hard for a handheld device of this size to squeeze this much battery life out of it as it is. I was impressed with 6 hours and 36 minutes, to be honest, even having turned everything off. And there's not much more they can do without making the battery even bigger, which would make the phone thicker. Sadly, I doubt they will do that, they'd risk losing their "thinnest smartphone ever" status.

[havenoemail]

i absolutely love your work. thumbs up mate.

any chance you could perform battery tests on the ipod touch 4g?

thatd be great. thanks

[ronakamrmagic]

Yea can't wait to see how this new iPod touch looks like and what other features it has also can't wait to see your next video I know you must be busy and I appreciate that you do these tests cause a lot of us do like to know what the battery life is for gaming for these devices like the iPad one was great will be getting a iPad this holiday and again thanks for your work

[LarryTait]

HEY! You have this song? I made this song I am Pooj :D I have a question is there a way you could send this to me? Like through email? MY account was taken down and I no longer have access to this song :(

[L0L247]

Nice Vid I got about 5 hrs and 15 min of use with brightness turned a bit passed medium with wifi on 3G on location services on notifications on data push on manual..... I was playing a few games reckless racing online and some web browsing and watched some streaming on Justin.tv. I finally charged it when I got to 7%.

[sicandmorfacbani]

iphone games and apps without the app store at iphoneshare,org #OMG

[ucheucheuche]

A timer would make this video awesomer.