iPhone 4S battery-gate: is it real?

Last year’s iPhone 4 was a big hit, but it came with one huge blunder dubbed “antenna-gate.” The iPhone 4S fixes the reception issue radically and very effectively using a dual-antenna setup and the phone “intelligently” switches between the two for better transmission and reception. But could there be another huge issue lurking to discredit the iPhone 4S incredible initial success?

“Battery-gate” as many have already started referring to, stands basically for a very quick drain of the battery on the iPhone 4S. Some users say their year old iPhone 4 has also been affected after the iOS 5 update and many are seeking the root of the problem in constant iCloud syncing, but really the problem doesn’t seem to be effectively solved yet.

Here’s what some users on different forums had to say:

“I've noticed it too, just overall much worse battery life. The phone also seems to be running hot more often as well. I was hoping that it was some initial syncing or backing up. My Rdio app had to re-sync it's offline collection for example. Very annoying,” the user vish wrote.

“The major problem here is that this drain was never this high pre the upgrade to ios5, so I can not blame my corp mail account just yet, but this is realy frustrating as the phone is nothing more then a brick, I expect all things to work for at least a regular 8-10 hour business day,” Andre3G shared on Apple Discussions.

We’d love to hear what’s your experience with iOS 5 and whether the issue is really as widespread as it seems, so don’t hesitate to cast your votes in the poll below. We’ll publish the results on Friday, but in the meantime you can also chime in with your detailed experiences in the comments below.

source: Apple Discussions, gdgt

Thanks to everyone who mentioned the iPhone 4S battery issue in their comments earlier!