I get about 2/3 of a day out of my iPhone battery.
Guy Kawasaki recently explained how to lengthen your iPhone battery. Turn off a load of stuff.
Balls to that.
I have two phones. An iPhone 3G which lasts about 8 hours. And a Nokia 6300 which lasts about 3 days.
Strike one for Nokia. Er, no. Because the only thing the Nokia actually does is sit there and do nothing. The iPhone is constantly downloading twinkles, grabbing email every 15 minutes (and receiving email pushes constantly) and footering with the GPS.
So it lasts 8 hours. Buy a PowerMonkey and get over it.
Balls to the fact that you can’t insert a spare battery into the iPhone, like you can do with virtually any other mobile device.
I’d rather have a shitty phone that can’t do as much….
Oh no, hang on…
(and before you start, the N95-8GB is no comparison)
Settle yourself!….I actually bought a 1st gen iPhone last month from a work colleague to use for BBC iPlayer and various other things. Still have the Nokia N95 8GB and will have for some time.
It might be a minor thing, but not being able to take out the iPhone battery means you could be forced to let the battery go flat before you can reboot the iPhone.
And accepting the iPhone’s poor battery performance by suggesting a clever work-around is fine, as long as you also accept its leading role as the phone with one of the largest carbon footprints.
I’ve never had to let it go flat to get it to reboot in a year of use but that’s anecdotal.
I don’t think the iPhone has poor performance in power terms, in contrast I think it has excellent utility.
And besides – Phones don’t have carbon footprints. People do. When I’m using my iPhone I’m not using my MacBook Pro which has an 85W Power Supply.