On Jul 15, 10:53*am, "Carl" <croth...@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote:

> Please see my post, somewhere above, on a typical plane trip I might take,
> and consider whether you would count on that battery lasting for you through
> that day. And I mean DEPEND on it, as if the phone part might be imminently
> important to you at the end of that day.

s/imminently/eminently I think. But anyway: Maybe I am such a
stimulating person that I energize the electronics around me, or maybe
the 3G just sucks - I don't know - but I do know that the 1st gen
iPhone battery meets all my needs. I don't use video at all, and I
strongly discourage people from calling me in voice mode; I primarily
use SMS and email, plus audio playback. I do a lot of email (mostly
wifi) and SMS during the day.

On a "bad day" where I have been listening to the iPod for a
significant percentage of the day while working, without power, I
usually get the 20% battery warning on my drive home, but of course I
have a car adapter to recharge it. I don't spend entire days traveling
on airplanes with no source of external power - and if I did, I would
not find it onerous to carry a couple of AA cells in a battery
extender.

I don't know the reasons why Apple chose to make the battery
nonremovable in all these appliances - of course we all suspect
"sleek" beat "replaceable" but nobody will ever know for sure. But it
doesn't make the device a non-starter for my lifestyle - and clearly
for many others it's the same story. I bought the iPhone because I
already carried a BlackBerry 7290 and 60GB iPod, and I was considering
purchase of a N800. The iPhone means one device to carry, one device
to remember to charge, and it's $30/mo cheaper to run than a
Blackberry with unlimited data. And a much more powerful web browser,
which is important to me.