The demise of faster speed Internet has always been the additional taxing on our batteries. Sure it’s nice to have Wi-Fi on our phones, but honestly how much battery consumption is necessary to get more than 1000kbps download speed? Well thankfully, the latest news on the 3g iPhone 2.0 has leaked some very interesting details for those of you worried about battery consumption.
Rather than forcing users to run at 3g data speeds, iPhone users will be able to either enable or disable 3g within their Network settings. The source of this tasty bit of battery saving bliss comes from the 2.0 beta 5 preferences binary which had the details tucked away. Although this option is part of the 2.0 Software update, it will only be available for the new 3g iPhone launching in June since existing iPhones lack the 3g radio to take advantage of faster data speeds. Here is what the hacker who located this feature in the iPhone 2.0 software said:
Well, when you have nothing to do all day, this is what happens. Note that this is not fake, it is in the beta 5 .ipsw, but will normally not show up on an EDGE iPhone. Turning 3-G on will just crash the phone if you use an EDGE phone. If you do not believe me, then decrypt the beta5 rootfs dmg, and see for yourself in /Applications/Preferences.app/Network.plist
With the performance of the existing iPhone running off Wi-Fi, we can only expect impressive battery life of the 3g iPhone 2.0. On the other hand, the inclusion of a feature to enable and disable 3g data speeds could mean that the battery life of the 3g iPhone did not meet the standards of Steve Jobs. As a result, the feature might have been added in order to keep an option available to maintain the existing battery performance on first generation iPhones. Let the countdown for the 3g iPhone 2.0 launch begin and prepare yourself for an endless amount of rumors in the coming weeks.
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