RBM wrote:
> "Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in message
> news:487bd2b9$0$7337$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>> 4phun wrote:
>>> This is a hoot with all the wannabe experts saying that the 3G
>>> iPhone sucks because of its little built in battery.
>>>
>>> Weekend tech tests show the 3G iPhone little battery has the best
>>> battery life of all 3G phones! It even beats Sprint's Instinct which
>>> is a less power hungry network for voice calls.!
>>>
>>> Ha HA Boo Hah
>>>
>>>
>>> LOL
>>>
>> I don't know what other people are saying, but I think you miss this
>> point by a long shot. It doesn't matter that in some lab "test"
>> done under non-real-world circumstances that the iPhone's battery
>> "beats" some other battery. That's like believing the gas-mileage
>> figures posted on new cars, figures which have little relationship
>> to real-world driving. Here's an example. I, for one, travel to Cabos, Mx
>> once a year. The
>> one-way trip takes me up to 9 or 10 hours with plane switching, not
>> counting potential delays. If I wanted to listen to songs for the 7
>> hours I'm on a plane, and browse the internet for the 3 hours of
>> 'other' time wasted in airports, even leaving out watching a movie
>> on the thing, will the battery last me for that long? What do I do
>> if it doesn't? Do I have an option? Even worse, on the return trip
>> can I count on having enough battery life left to make a few phone
>> calls, like to locate my car service or meet whomever is picking me
>> up, after using the device for 10 hours on the trip? Can I COUNT on
>> it, is the key operative phrase? Other phones' batteries may not last as
>> long in lab testing, but you
>> can bring an extra or two, or three, and COUNT on the device being
>> operative if and when you really need it.
>>
>> I don't know your life, but if you're a person who stays close to
>> home, and your only concern is if you can squeeze out an extra test
>> message or two to your friends after you've received a few phone
>> calls or listened to your tunes while you're at the gym for an hour,
>> and you're not worried because if your battery runs down you're not
>> that far from home, then we have different expectations and a way
>> different perspective on how we need our phones to operate.
>>
>> No matter how you slice it, Apple's failure to make the battery
>> user-replaceable is a huge error imho. I suspect that, should decide to
>> ge an iPhone, I'll be spending a lot of my time being
>> fearful of using it for the reasons mentioned above.
>>
>> See Carl, you've got it all wrong, the way these folks think is more
>> like: if apple doesn't make it, you're an idiot for wanting it. You
>> can buy an apple doohickey to do anything apple wants you to do with
>> their toys, but God forbid you don't feel like sitting with your
>> portable toy plugged into and outlet, a pc, or charger of any sort
>> and just want to carry a spare battery on your camping trip or
>> whatever, geese, what kind of moron are you
>
There does seem to be that mentality RBM, I agree. As I said in another
post, some of these guys are willing to adapt their world to the device
instead of expecting it to adapt to theirs. any of those recommendation were
silly, impractical, and immature.

It seems a little incongruous to me that some of them feel it's OK to have
this little, portable device, and EXPECT and ACCEPT that they'll be tethered
to the wall or a power pack that's larger than the phone itself. And they
think that's a solution for someone who bought a minitaure device- that
cables, power-packs, and wall sockets have to come along with it!

Some offered solutions that weren't unthinkable, but were often expensive
and/or added size and cumbersomeness. All to rationalize what could have
been an easy solution: make the battery pack user-changeable. Period.