Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 14 Jul 2008 14:34:22 -0700 4phun wrote:
>> This is a hoot with all the wannabe experts saying that the 3G iPhone
>> sucks because of its little built in battery.
>
> No, that aspect of it's design sucks because of the little
> NON-SWAPPABLE battery.
>
>
> You seem awfully chipper pointing to a chart from an article titled:
> "3G iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals..."
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/148348/
>
> (Of course, you only linked to the chart - not to the
> less-than-glowing article that spawned it. Hmmm....)
>
>> Weekend tech tests show the 3G iPhone little battery has the best
>> battery life of all 3G phones!
>
> No, it had the best battery life of the TEN smartphones PC World
> tested and put in the chart. No Nokia phone is listed, 3G
> "dumphones" like the Moto Razrs aren't listed, and I don't see any
> Blackberries. My wife's work- issued Blackberry runs so damn long
> compared to our WinMo phones, I've always suspected RIM has mastered
> Cold Fusion and just never told anyone...
>
>
>> It even beats Sprint's Instinct which
>> is a less power hungry network for voice calls.!
>>
>> Ha HA Boo Hah
>
>
> By about five minutes. Very impressive.
>
>
>> Here is the offical chart to view at your leisure...
>
> Oh, let's fix that link for you, 4phun:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/148348/
>
> So the iPhone's battery life sucks a little less than the other phones
> tested. Wheee...
>
> PC World said of that stellar performance: "the 3G iPhone beat out
> the rest of the current 3G smart-phone pack, most of which fell shy
> of the 5-hour mark that's the cutoff between a word score of Fair and
> one of Poor in our performance ratings."
>
> Wow. The iPhone's battery life is "fair" instead of "poor." I
> wonder if Apple will add that to the brochure?
>
> My AT&T Tilt's battery life (coming in nearly an hour shorter than the
> iPhone's on that chart) is absolutely terrible. (Or should I say
> 'poor'?) I REALLY feel for the owners of the five phones on the chart
> that the Tilt beat. Hopefully those phones come with an external
> batery pack- maybe something along the lines of a backpack with a 12V
> deep-cycle marine battery in it! ;-)
>
> Looking at the chart you linked, I should be thrilled with the Tilt's
> battery life- it's 80+% of the iPhone's! If that's the case, the
> iPhone would get maybe 15 hours of life from my usage pattern
> compared to the 12 my Tilt gets. Wheeee...
>
> PC World summed it up with: "the good news for 3G iPhone owners is
> that they're probably better off than other 3G handset owners in
> terms of battery life. But that won't help when your 3G iPhone stops
> running at the end of a long and busy day."
>
And it's this last paragraph that is at the heart of this entire thread:
there is some point, for some users, that the iPhone will stop running, most
probably at some inconvenient time and place. And there's very little they
can do about it, short of carrying around another box, larger than the phone
itself, which advocates call "battery extenders". Someone made a reference
earlier to the Bat Belt. It appears that's where this new technology is
headed.