At least in the hands of a power user
The iPhone 4S may bear a disappointingly familiar look to the iPhone 4 for those who had been eagerly expecting a distinctive iPhone 5 under the Christmas tree, but the 4S sure sounds different than its predecessor, and no, I’m not talking about Siri.
Try this: Pry a 4S from the vice-like grip of an iPhone power user and hold it up to your ear. Hear that? Oink-oink-oink … snort … oink, oink, oink. That’s the sound of a data hog, all right, and according to a new report from network management software vendor Arieso, this new sub-species is a whopper.
From an IDG New Service story on out site:
Apple’s iPhone has put some operator networks under immense pressure since the first version arrived, as users download more data than their networks can handle. The iPhone 4S takes data consumption to new levels, according to Arieso’s report, which looks at usage patterns of at least 1,000 phones of each model, the company’s CTO Michael Flanagan said.
The latest addition to the iPhone family is the champion among smartphones when it comes to data usage. Owners of the iPhone 4S download almost three times as much data as users of the iPhone 3G, which Arieso uses as the benchmark, and twice as much as the iPhone 4, whose users were the most demanding in last year’s survey.
Another tidbit from the report: Half of all data is consumed by only 1 percent of users.
