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Apple announced it had found some flaws in iOS 5 that could be fixed with a patch – specifically to help address the battery life issues experienced by some iPod and iPhone users.

Apple released an initial beta iOS 5.0.1 build 9a402 to developers to begin testing the new update on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The company says the new build “contains improvements and other bug fixes including:

- Fixes bugs that believe to have affected battery life.

- Resolves bugs to do with Documents in the Cloud.

- Contains new security improvements.

- a number of other improvements including voice recognition and storage options

A number of users have complained about serious battery life issues since the release of iOS 5, although the problems appear to relate to different settings and usage which makes it difficult to identify the bugs in the firmware and diagnose and address.

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Apple had reportedly been actively investigating the issues with specific users to determine what fixes could be rolled out to general audiences to broadly resolve the problems.

Some users have discovered specific settings that seemed to be actively consuming battery life, including the automatic date and time setting, iTunes Ping, per-app notification settings, and even the “raise to speak” feature in Siri.

Apple’s latest iPhone 4S uses a much faster A5 processor with twice the graphics cores and a higher clock speed, but the company notes that average talk time, WiFi browsing and audio and video playback should be roughly the same as the previous A4-based iPhone 4, thanks to new technologies including a slightly larger battery.

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