The iphone is becoming a serious gamers machine guys.

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drpunk said:

iron_megalith said:

I heard that the battery life span is short... and I'd hate to be left out with no phone because the battery dried up from gaming. I'd rather have a seperate device for gaming.

Yeah, the battery life's my biggest gripe with the thing. As soon as you do anything with it other than use it as a phone or an ipod the battery drains quick.

I have to charge it everyday, and that's probably about 4 hours use on average a day (it tells me my usage). Just browsing websites mainly, via wifi (using 3G's an even BIGGER drain on the battery).

 

 

This is my biggest beef with the iPhone as well. Now if you only use it as a phone, browser, and local video/music viewer it should be more than enough to get most people through the day. But if you add in gamings the sucker gets eaten up. For instance Hero of Sparta, which is one of the best looking games takes about 3.5 hours to go from 100% to 10%. Of course there are ways to get a bit more out of it like disabling wifi/3G/EDGE and lowering the brightness. But people should not be expected to do that just to be able to get a reasonable play time out of it. If nothing else battery life alone will keep the iPhone in the casual only crowd. Of course Apple could always change that.