iPhone 3G is Great but Needs Better Power Management Tools

August 15, 2008 by admin

I picked up an iPhone 3G last night after standing on line for much longer than I should have. Unfortunately a friend who was traveling with me couldn’t get one due to some number porting issues
with Sprint.

It’s not much different from the previous iPhone, with the exception of a GPS and faster data speeds. All of its software features are currently available to owners of the original iPhone with the new 2.0 upgrade that became available yesterday.

I do have one gripe, and that has to do with power management. Watch my video to see what I’m talking about:

This has been bugging me since the original iPhone came out last year. It’s crazy how many different menus I have to go through to disable or enable a radio (bluetooth, wifi, etc). I was hoping that the 3G iPhone, with a total of four different power draining radios, would have a single place to manage all of them. Unfortunately it doesn’t.

Hopefully Apple will move all of these settings into either a single app or change the layout of the settings screen to have on/off sliders for all four radios just below the airplane mode slider. Giving us an easier way to manage power consumption will most certainly result in happier customers!

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