As an EE of 45 years experience I can assure you that would not be a problem. Writing code for nearly as long would lead me to believe that it was a software issue concerning radio usage (both phone and GPS) and the percentage of time that the device was "awake" to the user. This fundamental clock determines the amount of delay you are willing to tolerate between the time you touch the device and the time it wakes up. This is critical in battery usage.
>As an EE of 45 years experience I can assure you that would not be a problem.
And as an EE myself I can assure you that leaving a high-impedance input floating does cause excessive currents to flow in a device, not that this is the problem here. Look it up. As a matter of fact I was making a little joke based on an experience I had after switching to software development in which I no longer designed my own PCBs.
I would tend to agree. However that would mean that they have either completely ignored this problem from the last release to this one or they can't fix it.