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Seems that your battery would fail when you need it the most: namely, in the middle of nowhere with no cell coverage.

Ironically, it seems that this only happens when you are within service.

Another commenter speculated that when you're out of service, the software correctly identifies that there is no tower to connect to and stops trying. But when you're in service, the code repeatedly tries to do the 3G handshake because it can see a valid tower.

It may happen with a lot of devices if 3G appears browned out to them and not just plain unavailable.

Or the park in a garage with no coverage?

One can only hope that "smart" will have very bad associations in the future (for the general public).

If it doesn't already (or 5 years ago...), then I don't have much hope for the future.

There are huge swaths of areas with no service in the US that people regularly visit.