Apple Announces iPhone “Juice”
Apple announced this week that the iPhone, which was previously reported to only have 5 hours of talk time, was testing at closer to 8 hours. This substantial improvement adds meaningfully to the marketability of the product.
The iPhone, which is Apple’s first foray into the mobile phone arena, has generated substantial chatter in the mobile phone community. On one hand the form factor is sleek and the operating system looks innovative for its beauty and simplicity. Consumers have snapped up Apple’s other iPod products, and analysts expect this one to sell well. On the other hand, the iPhone has no physical qwerty keyboard and limited support for third party software, fitting more closely the definition of a feature phone than a smartphone. The device does not support mainstream server software (at least yet), and is not being welcomed with open arms by enterprises as a result.
Apple expects to launch the iPhone next week.
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Awwww, what does Apple know?
As Palm has demonstrated by their recent releases, everyone’s looking for *LESS* battery life, not more!
I stopped buying iPods once they got those Nanos up to 24 hours of runtime. After all, all that battery life made the device far too big anyway.
Soon Palm will get the battery life in Treos down to about 30 minutes of talk time and they will rule the industry! (and Seidio will sell enough “rumpshaker” batteries to buy out Palm…).
I would love to have an interface like the iphone on my treo!