[maccard]

> When my phone was new and I was commuting with it, I would typically get between eight and ten hours on a charge.

Sounds like you got a dud phone.

but being serious, It's one of the trade offs of modern smart phones. THey're designed to last roughly a day of usage. If you use them like you used your old phone, you'd get 2-3 days out of them, but then you might aswell just run with an Alcatel[0] and get the super long battery life.

[0]: https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/alcatel/1040/#contractType=...

[simoncion]

I'm confused. If this was what you were going to reply with, why on Earth did you bother asking the question?

Anyone who's even remotely techy knows why their smartphone battery lasts far less than a day on average. That doesn't mean that they're happy with the (often fashion driven) tradeoffs made by phone designers, or that they don't actually want a vaguely-smart-phone that also has battery life of a week or more.