How to Improve iPhone Battery Life
One of the big downfalls of the old and the new 3G iPhone has been it’s battery life. Whilst it has some amazing features, you can’t use them if your battery is out of power.
However, with a few simple tips it is easy to increase the length that your iPhone battery will last.
- Full Charge Cycle - It is important that at least once a month you let the iPhone battery drain almost completely and then fully charge it again. This is a tip given by Apple themselves and really does work.
- Brightness - The brightness of your iPhone’s screen can highly affect it’s battery life. If you turn down the brightness a bit, you may find that you save some power.
- Turn on Auto-Lock - It is important that you turn on the iPhone’s automatic lock function, not only does this stop you accidentally doing things, but it saves battery life. Every time the screen is pressed, the light comes on, so if you have it auto-lock then the light will not have to come on and you will save on power.
- No Network - If you are in a remote area or an area that will be in for a long time that has no phone signal, then you will lose battery very fast. When you have no signal the iPhone will be constantly searching for a new signal, so if you turn it off or just put it in flight mode, it will not search for a signal and you will save a lot of power.
- Bluetooth - When you are not using Bluetooth you should completely turn it off. This improves battery life and makes your phone more secure.
- Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi is a nice feature on the iPhone, but when you aren’t using it you should turn it off, it just sucks up battery power.
- Email - The iPhone has an automatic email check. Make the times that it checks less, or turn off auto-checking, and you will save a lot of battery life.
Each of these tips will make a small difference, but together you will save a lot of battery life.
mimobot - Beautiful USB Drives
mimobot make and sell designer USB flash drives. They create some amazing looking USB keys, the majority of them in the figure of a person or creature. They also have a range of special edition USB keys such as their Halo and Star Wars ranges.
This is an example mimobot. You can see that they are really inspired and aimed at people who want to have something different, and people that want to make something that is essentially quite boring, very fun.
I am a big fan of their Halo mimobot range. It is one of their smallest ranges, only featuring the Master Cheif and two Spartans.
mimobot USB keys come in a huge range of styles, you can get something pink and bright, to dark skeleton. They also come in 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb sizes, so you will be able to hold a lot of files.
I would recommend a mimobot to anyone and I will be receiving my one sometime soon.