Alright so, I’ve made no secret of my complete disenchantment of the iPhone. My primary reason for distaste is also because I think the battery is going to be entirely worthless. Nevertheless, something weird is going on with Mr. John C. Dvorak.
Last week he issued a proclamation saying that Apple should withdraw the iPhone (not a bad idea). He gave all sorts of reasons that didn’t amount to much, but this week he’s returned with claims that a Cingular tester told him that the iPhone only gets 40 minutes of talk time, causing myself, and others, to question why he didn’t mention this very key detail sooner.
Now, I’m absolutely certain that the iPhone battery is going to be appalling, but 40 minutes seems a little low. It’s possible, but I suspect that if the iPhone were to get 40 minutes of talk time, it’d require playing lots of audio and video in addition to talking on the phone. That’s the main problem as I see it, the current battery isn’t nearly sufficient to power both media and phone capabilities in addition to the WiFi that everyone is banking on for Internet.
Dvorak: iPhone battery dead after 40 minutes [The Apple Blog]
Beta test iPhones use a smaller battery, to reduce development costs.
Excuse me if I’ve missed this in an earlier post, but I thought the iPhone (according to Kevin Rose on DiggNation) was supposed to launch with a dual battery setup that separated powersourcing for the phone functions from the iPod functionality. Was this “rumor” determined to be bogus?
I hope that battery is LOT smaller. I don’t believe the 40 minutes but regardless of the actual battery life I doubt very much that it will be magically long and not being able to slip another battery in is incredibly lame and possibly pretty disasterous. I don’t know anyone with a smart phone that doesn’t have a 2nd battery.
No, no, no. That Cingular guy was testing the prototype of the “3G” iPhone that will be out in 20 years from now. Man, have you ever use a 3G phone, it sucks up the battery in seconds. ;)
lol sucked in