I agree. I was really, really hoping for a MacBook Air-style 2x improvement in battery life (either through a physically larger battery and/or silicon improvements).
The problem with battery life:
1) It's already terrible. If I go out to a bar or whatever after work and I haven't charged it through the day to >75%, it will be dead most likely by the time I'm trying to get directions home/phone a taxi.
2) No VoLTE support, so you need to have both the 3G & 4G radios on when making a call and using data at the same time, which sucks.
3) iOS7 will likely allow much more aggressive multitasking by developers, which will reduce battery life further. This hasn't really been seen on these benchmarks but I think once developers start pushing through these things, battery life is going to take a nose dive.
4) iPhone batteries aren't user replacements and people use them very heavily. I imagine many people will easily do 500 cycles a year, which makes performance suck pretty quickly.
VoLTE is largely a matter of carrier support, when it does get enabled on a major network it shouldn't be too hard to add support for it via a software update. The baseband might need to be updated as well, but the radio support is all there simply by supporting LTE.
The problem with battery life:
1) It's already terrible. If I go out to a bar or whatever after work and I haven't charged it through the day to >75%, it will be dead most likely by the time I'm trying to get directions home/phone a taxi.
2) No VoLTE support, so you need to have both the 3G & 4G radios on when making a call and using data at the same time, which sucks.
3) iOS7 will likely allow much more aggressive multitasking by developers, which will reduce battery life further. This hasn't really been seen on these benchmarks but I think once developers start pushing through these things, battery life is going to take a nose dive.
4) iPhone batteries aren't user replacements and people use them very heavily. I imagine many people will easily do 500 cycles a year, which makes performance suck pretty quickly.