But to me that's like buying a Ferrari and using it to ferry the kids back and forth 5 miles to school and to run to the grocery store a mile a way. Why? That's not what you buy that phone for. My home Internet connection is 25 mbps. I could theoretically install software or set up some system to throttle my connection to 3 mbps when I'm not actively using the computer. Why in the world would I do that though?
You just contradicted yourself. Your general day to day stuff like web browsing & sending texts is like ferrying the kids & getting the groceries, so you're essentially using a Ferrari to do that & are then complaining about bad mileage (or battery life in this case).
On the flip side, most people who have Ferraris aren't always using them at max speed. You May think that's a waste, but in the end, THEY'RE IN A FERRARI! They still have the capability to go 200 mph+, they don't have to do so constantly. And I guarantee you that anyone who has a high performance vehicle and gets bad mileage, if they had a button they could push and get 1/3 better mileage with 1/2 the power when they're not lighting up the autobahn, they'd jump on it.
When Verizon announced LTE, they never said we'd get the same or better battery life, they'd just said it'd be faster. Faster always means more energy consumption.
The ironic thing in all of this is the people complaining about having to push a few buttons to save battery life. How many keypresses have you made typing your reasoning for not having to press a few buttons.
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