Apple was hit by a class action lawsuit on Thursday that claims the company knew about a defect in the iPhone 5 line of smartphones that could result in high cell data usage.
The lawsuit, filed by consumer-rights law firm Hagens Berman, explains that the defect would occur when an iPhone 5 user "streamed high volumes of data for a period of 10-20 minutes." During this time, the hardware's GPU would take control of all video decompression, decoding and presentation, making the CPU unneeded. The CPU would then go to sleep in order to conserve its battery life, but the phone would then switch from streaming via Wi-Fi to LTE.
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The lawsuit, filed by consumer-rights law firm Hagens Berman, explains that the defect would occur when an iPhone 5 user "streamed high volumes of data for a period of 10-20 minutes." During this time, the hardware's GPU would take control of all video decompression, decoding and presentation, making the CPU unneeded. The CPU would then go to sleep in order to conserve its battery life, but the phone would then switch from streaming via Wi-Fi to LTE.
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