Dave Burrows – Tech / iPhone Blog – Technical Evangelist

A lot of people see me throughout the day using two iPhones and wonder what it can be like. Well, it’s really great. For a first, you essentially have double the battery power, so that’s got to be good.

I currently have both iPhones setup similar (but not exact), e.g. one iPhone uses a contract SIM on O2 and the other a PAYG SIM on O2. I don’t have all of the exact same apps/games installed onto both, but both have my core apps/games, so if I want to switch between one and another then I can do at ease.

I charge both iPhones up over night, only one gets used for calls in the day. When my backup iPhone isn’t being used and I’m at a desk, then it gets charged up in my JBL Speaker Dock. I charge the main iPhone probably a couple of times a day (more so when I’m using the phone for around 4 hours in a day).

If I’m going for what I’ll call a heavy use session on the iPhone, e.g. game playing or lots of surfing or social media then where possible I’ll use my Philips SCE battery charger (I usually carry two of these). The Philips charger allows me to get at least one full charge of an iPhone. So effectively you could say that on any one day, I have the battery power of 4x iPhones.

On a real power hungry day then I might take my Juice Pack Air battery sleeve with me, that kinda got neglected until recently, but now the dust has come off the cover and I’m using it a little more.

Do I really need two iPhones? The answer for me is Yes, because I do a lot of testing.
Do I really need 5x the battery power? Oh yes! You can’t believe how handy this is.

With the Philips battery chargers, I can carry two of these around in a soft pouch, basically equaling the size of a regular iPhone. They can slip into any of my pockets and go unnoticed and I can whip them out with an Apple USB charger cable at anytime to give me a little battery top-up.

Personally I try not to run the battery power much below 50% although on some heavy days if I don’t charge often then I can get down to below 20%.