Wanted: An iPhone power miser app

Bloggers crack me up. Always savin' that time. God bless them.

You mean like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timheuer/2781689897/? I tried writing this the day the SDK was made public (http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/07/14/iphone-3g-battery-drain-and-accessories-not-compatible.aspx), however in communication directly with Apple, the headers are not exposed for an app that would be accepted to AppStore based on the current terms.

Apple marketing would never allow such an app to be created. It would be tantamount to an admission that iPhone battery life sucks.

Yes! That would be awesome.

I can see it now....

In the preferences of this App you would be able to choose the settings for "Low Drain Mode" as well as the settings for "Full Power Mode," and you would be able to choose how you want the Brightness, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location services, and Push. Then all you have to do is open the App and tap which mode you would like.

:D

I think this is a great idea, although it may be better to have homescreen icons that allow you to switch these power sapping functions on and off, purely for flexibility. For instance if I need to turn the bluetooth on in my car for my headset I have to go through all the settings, as described above. But if there was a single button on the homescreen, like a shortcut to simply switch the services individually on or off, i think that would be great!

I suggested this to Erica the day the 3G came out. Erica, how about it?? :)

Great idea; Apple should just make an "energy saver" app that not only does this but that also could turn on energy savings when the battery reaches a user-defined threshold (so if you specify that when your battery drops to 25% then all extraneous processes are shut off).

After noticing a few of my friends and colleagues with new iPhones, the best thing anyone can do to improve battery life is turn down the display brightness to 25-33% (but keep on auto-brightness). If you need it higher, fine, but most will notice that the 55% default setting is too bright for normal usage.

The battery life will go up A LOT. ;)

Seems like you and Erica Sadun didn't cross paths in the office today. Checkout the previous post about Boss Prefs; it does exactly what you want. Maybe you don't want to jailbreak, tho.

I have thought of this idea also. Why not include something similar to profiles like on a blackberry. You could have Home and Road, High powerlow power, etc..

This is a concept thats been on laptops for years, and since the iPhone is a mini-laptop it makes sense for apple to include this as a feature.