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iPhone 4 Battery Life When Making a FaceTime Video Call

iPhone 4 Battery Life When Making a FaceTime Video Call

Posted June 24, 2010 at 3:00pm by iClarified
iLounge has taken the time to measure how long you can FaceTime video chat on your iPhone 4 before its battery dies.

Three hours and 10 minutes, give or take a little, from a completely charged iPhone 4. That’s via Wi-Fi, as compared with a promised 7 hours of voice-only talk time over 3G, and 10 hours of standard data time over Wi-Fi—the difference is attributable to iPhone 4’s camera, mics, speaker, video and audio encoding and decoding capabilities all being used at the same time.

iLounge tested this on two devices and saw an average battery consumption of 30% per hour.


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iPhone 4 Battery Life When Making a FaceTime Video Call
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Joe
Joe - June 25, 2010 at 8:57am
I had an hour+ facetime convo last night, that sort of battery life is tolerable and expected. The camera, screen, accelerometer, wifi radio, and two data streams to encode and decode with surprisingly low latency.
David
David - June 25, 2010 at 1:25am
I can't imagine how my arms and shoulders would feel after a 3+ hour FaceTime chat.
Boy1da
Boy1da - June 24, 2010 at 7:40pm
Am I correct in assuming FaceTime calls are considered data, therefore are free when making global "FaceTime" chats? Basically im wondering if there are roaming charges?
iPwn
iPwn - June 24, 2010 at 4:55pm
it will be even less if u use multi taskinking. lets say do some browsing in between.
ipwn
ipwn - June 24, 2010 at 4:58pm
what i meant to say is, multi-tasking. sorry.
c
c - June 24, 2010 at 3:47pm
thats not bad at all considering its constantly streaming data for 3 hours
Anthony
Anthony - June 24, 2010 at 10:43pm
Yeah, when I iChat on my macbook i get less than that even..
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