RIM Complains About iPhone Battery Life
From the APC article:
“If you look at the iPhone as an example, and it’s a beautiful looking product, but it doesn’t give the heavy user a full day of battery life. One reason is that it’s not really a push email device, it’s what we call ‘poke and pull’ – the device wakes up, checks for email, and if there’s no email it goes back to sleep. But all those sessions consume power and reduces battery life every time it wakes up. In a push system the device doesn’t need to do anything because email is pushed down to the device”
This might be excusable if the quote was from right before or right after the iPhone 3G launch, but just barely. Battery life was fine on the original iPhone, and the 2.0 software, while offering terrible battery performance with 3G turned on, had push mail from Exchange servers.