Wanna Save Your iPhone Battery?

This is not one of those "Turn off every useful feature of iOS" posts that grinds my gears. My goal is to deliver practical steps to truly solve your iOS battery woes.

One quick thing before we start — 99.9% of the time it is not actually iOS that is causing your battery to drain quickly. I guarantee you that if you erased your phone and there were no apps or email on it, it would last for ages. But, no one uses their device like that, nor should they. Hopefully with these steps you will be living in iOS battery bliss while still using all the apps and features you love.

I will be reformatting my iPhone 5 again and start fresh with iOS 7.1. A few weeks ago, I installed iOS 7 which did posses amazing battery life, but after I started installing a few of the hundreds of apps that I use, my battery would eventually only last half a day! I'm going to have to start deducing what's really going on.

via OverThought by Scotty Loveless

A Thorough Review of the iPhone 5c

An awesome review by Rene Ritchie at iMore. Worth the read if you don't want to go full iPhone 5s or just love great writing.

The iPhone 5c, it turns out, wasn't a pure budget play at all. It's play was pure pop.

The 2013 iPhone 5c may sport mostly 2012 iPhone 5 guts, and it may sit in that same $100 off slot, but the first time, it's a first-class member of the product lineup.

I'll admit it, I like the iPhone 5c more than I thought I would. After using it non-stop last weekend, I missed it when I switched to the iPhone 5s. I missed its color. I missed its feel. The iPhone 5s screams premium, all gorgeously metallic and scorchingly fast. But the iPhone 5c really is fun. When I put it down, that's what I missed. And when I switched back to it on alternate days, that's what I enjoyed.

via iMore

iPhone Are Selling... Duh

Setting a new record year after year and people still saying that Apple's not doing well?

Apple® today announced it has sold a record-breaking nine million new iPhone® 5s and iPhone 5c models, just three days after the launch of the new iPhones on September 20

via Apple

Apple's new iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c

If you haven't been following the news of my twitter stream today, around 10AM Apple started its annual iPhone event.  You can read all about it on Apple's website but here are a few details.  The iPhone 5c is a colorful addition to the lineup with white, pink, yellow, blue and green while the 5s will be offered in silver, space gray and the new gold. The biggest highlights come from the iPhone 5s debuting a new camera, dual LED flash, slow motion video at 120fps, and the new biometric Touch ID home button that can be used to purchase apps on the App Store and primarily  unlock your phone.  For the techies out there, it's also the first smartphone in the industry to have a 64-bit A7 processor making it 2x faster than the now defunct iPhone 5.  The 5c starts at $99 available for pre-order this Friday while the 5s can be ordered starting on the 20th.  At $199, you'll have to chose between a 16GB iPhone 5s with all those new features of the 32GB iPhone 5c.  Which one will you go with?

If you want a thorough update on what's new on the iPhones, check out 9to5mac.  You can also find both iPhone 5s videos on Apple's website here.