"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
news:487c98f0$0$20909$607ed4bc@cv.net:

> Larry wrote:
>> "Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
>> news:487bd2b9$0$7337$607ed4bc@cv.net:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think I've found a solution!
>> http://www.earthtechproducts.com/p2649.html
>> Should keep a FruitFone running for days, especially if you leave it
>> in the sun!
>>
>> It may be the ONLY solution.....(c;
>>
> So the new Apple iPhone, coupled with one of these, is reminiscent of
> the original "bag phones" (of which I had one) of the early '90's, but
> minus the 3 watts of transmit power. So, are we then actually moving
> backwards in technology??? :-)
>
>
>

Looks that way if you wanna talk and play all day or on a trip...(c;

I had several bagphones....worked great!

I stood in the eye of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 talking to someone in Ohio
on my Motorola bagphone describing how beautiful the stars were...mostly
because all the trees that USED to be in the way, were now somewhere
else and someone else's trees were laying on the street from miles away.

.......then the other side of the storm tried to move the house I was a
refugee in back the other way the 6" it had already moved by the front
side of the storm.....in the pitch black dark, the power system of SC
having been destroyed....