iOS 5.0.1 Upgrade Tested: Better Battery Life for iPhone 4S

Apple officially released iOS 5.0.1 update currently, fixing-among other things-Battery life troubles that had been affecting the iPhone 4S. So just how much a lot more juice are you acquiring?

               

Amazingly, this iPhone 4S Battery-life car-crash may perhaps not basically be fixed by the iOS 5.0.1 update! Some users are even complaining that it's worse than prior to. 

We downloaded the developer's preview of iOS 5.0.1 yesterday, and then ran the Laptop Computer Battery Test (internet surfing more than Wi-Fi) on 3 iPhone 4S devices, 1 with iOS 5.0.1 installed, and two operating iOS 5. Though our final results were somewhat inconclusive, we did locate that that the model operating the newest iOS 5.0.1 update ran longest.

A Sprint iPhone 4S operating iOS 5 lasted 7:41, an AT&T iPhone 4S operating iOS 5 lasted 8:41, and a Verizon iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1 lasted 9:07. We conducted our tests with Locations Services turned on and Notifications turned off. We?re going to update all 3 phones to the most current OS and report back with additional final results. The most curious result was the low runtime for the Sprint iPhone 4S, but we'll have to retest to decide whether that's just a fluke.