Long live the iPhone!

By Armando Hernandez on June 18, 2007 6:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) |

Apple Inc. announced Monday that its highly-anticipated iPhone (coming to a retailer near you on June 29) will have a longer-than-expected battery life (8 hours of talk time, 7 hours of video playback, 6 hours of Internet use, 24 hours of music playback and 10 days on stand-by mode), leaving the competition in the dust. Currently, devices such as Palm Inc.'s Treo and Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Curve offer 4 hours of talk time.

Apple said in January that it expected the iPhone to offer 5 hours of "talk/video/browsing" and up to 16 hours of audio playback.

Apple's announcement is good news for us long-distance commuters. Now we can weave our way through traffic all the way from L.A. to New York without having to recharge.

2 Comments

khai said:

sadly battery life is always much less than manufacturer says.
but let's hope for this one.

June 19, 2007 6:44 AM

Steven Rosenberg

said:

It's got to be nervous time for Apple. A new product category can be craptastic (Newton) or a world-changer (iPod) ... so the iPhone has a lot riding on its little shoulders.

As far as the battery goes, an easily removable one would've been nice.

And in true Apple fashion, the virtual touchscreen keypad takes the cell-phone industry into a new realm ... not that Palm devices haven't had stylus-touch screens for years, but the Apple's stylus-free touch screen still represents a step forward.

So when you put your $500 down, bring that bad boy into the office, why dontcha?

June 19, 2007 12:46 PM

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