Apple iPhone users were excited to be liberated from their USB cords on Thursday when the company released its first “over the air” update for an operating system, iOS 5.0.1. The update was also supposed to fix the rapidly-draining battery issue that some iPhone 4S users had reported, but so far, the complaints haven’t died down on Apple’s online support forums.In fact, some users have actually reported even worse battery life performance as a consequence of the update, with 70 percent battery drain in 6 hours. Apple advertises 8 hours of talk time for the iPhone 4S on 3G, compared to 7 hours on the iPhone 4, and 5 hours on the iPhone 3GS.
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