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When Will The iPhone Have A Replacable Battery?
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You could use an external battery.
It may be 100% better for you, but you are not Apple's only customer. It would benefit the small percentage of users who actually carry a spare battery, while inconveniencing everyone else with shorter battery life and a larger form factor. An external battery seems like a good compromise.
Or instead of going to the store that sells Blackberry batteries, she could go to the Apple Store and have it replaced for her. And that actually wasn't the point. You claimed that you can run a Blackberry HARD and have it last two days. With only 4 hours of talk time, that's just not true.
That was my point. It's all the extra features that you use on an iPhone that reduce it's battery life for you. If you did the same exact things on your iPhone and your Blackberry, the battery life would be very similar. Not the 4x as long for the Blackberry that you claimed.
I don't need a replaceable battery. The battery that comes with the phone works great.
The AC charger and car charger even fit in my pocket.
The AC charger and car charger even fit in my pocket.
Let me just throw some 411 at everyone...
You don't have to pay for an iPhone battery replacement unless it is out of warranty. Which is the same as Blackberry.
iPhone wont make it in business? According to this article iPhone BlackBerry has twice the fail rate that iPhone does. I do NOT consider myself a "Fan Boy". While working for AT&T I was given all the iPhones, the Blackberry Curve, Pearl, 8820, and Bold. Since exchange support came though last year I was able to get my AT&T email on the iPhone and from then whenever I was given a new Blackberry I still went right back to the iPhone within a week because in my experience it worked better for me in a business environment. For what it's worth I was always able to make it at least a full day on the iPhone battery and about the same with the Bold.
Sure, more people use BlackBerry in business, but BlackBerry was also introduced in 1999 and had a 8 year head start on iPhone. You can't argue that what iPhone has accomplished in 3 years as far as being accepted by the different professional communities (medical, business, etc) is nothing short of astonishing.
But getting back to battery life. While working at AT&T the number one complaint of BlackBerry was the battery, at one point there was a time when we couldn't keep the batteries in stock because we had so many warranty exchanges on them.
Tell me General, what do you have to do when your Blackberry battery fails? Take it to the store you bought it from and have the battery swapped out. What do iPhone users have to do when their battery goes bad? Take it to the Apple store and have it replaced... The same painless process.
You don't have to pay for an iPhone battery replacement unless it is out of warranty. Which is the same as Blackberry.
iPhone wont make it in business? According to this article iPhone BlackBerry has twice the fail rate that iPhone does. I do NOT consider myself a "Fan Boy". While working for AT&T I was given all the iPhones, the Blackberry Curve, Pearl, 8820, and Bold. Since exchange support came though last year I was able to get my AT&T email on the iPhone and from then whenever I was given a new Blackberry I still went right back to the iPhone within a week because in my experience it worked better for me in a business environment. For what it's worth I was always able to make it at least a full day on the iPhone battery and about the same with the Bold.
Sure, more people use BlackBerry in business, but BlackBerry was also introduced in 1999 and had a 8 year head start on iPhone. You can't argue that what iPhone has accomplished in 3 years as far as being accepted by the different professional communities (medical, business, etc) is nothing short of astonishing.
But getting back to battery life. While working at AT&T the number one complaint of BlackBerry was the battery, at one point there was a time when we couldn't keep the batteries in stock because we had so many warranty exchanges on them.
Tell me General, what do you have to do when your Blackberry battery fails? Take it to the store you bought it from and have the battery swapped out. What do iPhone users have to do when their battery goes bad? Take it to the Apple store and have it replaced... The same painless process.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/17/incase-power-slider.html
There you go General, about the same huge size the iPhone would be if it had all the mechanisms and such for a removable battery(which by the way hasn't stopped it from selling like hot cakes).
There you go General, about the same huge size the iPhone would be if it had all the mechanisms and such for a removable battery(which by the way hasn't stopped it from selling like hot cakes).
GOT IT. and I like it! One of the reasons I like it so much is that I can sync it and charge it and the iPhone using a WORLD STANDARD mini USB instead of carrying the Apple specific cable (which has known issues with the cable coming apart)
BTW Using the Mini USB would be another smart move for Apple and MAY become manditory! Bring it on people SLAM me some more for that statement!
You are basically begging people to attack you with how ****ing arrogant and argumentative you're being. You are THE worst kind of poster, the one who barges into a thread, acts like he's the biggest and baddest and absolutely will NOT be swayed, and acts like everyone is attacking him.
You're rocking the boat and not expecting any water to come in the sides. Tone down your approach, don't act so high and mighty and maybe people will see your point.
first off, if you're that worried bring a charger. If you will be without a plug for a long time, then don't waste battery. if you're on a long flight, turn all the battery using options off and use airplane mode.
Don't they have those things you can plug into the charge port to give it more power? that would be a better option than a removable battery. Then people don't have to be forced to have a removable battery, and those who need a lot more juice can attatch it as needed.
Don't they have those things you can plug into the charge port to give it more power? that would be a better option than a removable battery. Then people don't have to be forced to have a removable battery, and those who need a lot more juice can attatch it as needed.
I work for the government there are 1000's of BlackBerrys, which have been around a lot longer than the iPhone thus entrenched (which is why businesses use them more for the most part) and there are next to no users in the government that have 2 batteries, because they would have to buy a second one themselves.
I also use to work in the automotive industry and I'd say less than 5% (probably less than 1% had spare batteries) for their BlackBerrys.
They probably sell more charges because they don't have swpare batteries which could all be charged at home. I have 5 chargers and they are all over the place so I can plug it in whenever and where ever I am.
I really don't think a replaceable battery is a big sticking point.
The $85 replacement is most likely what it would cost for a spare user replaceable battery anyways.
The Charger isn't a world standard, it's a standard in Europe.
Oh, in case you want to yell at me for not having sources... here.
Probably closer to $60 for an OEM.
Oh, in case you want to yell at me for not having sources... here.
Probably closer to $60 for an OEM.
Aint gunna happen buddy
Well said brotha, well said.
the iPhone will get a user replaceable battery when hell freezes over. Apple is always looking for ways to make profit.
your right
because fortune 500 companies aren't major businesses. So their use of iPhones must mean it isn't being taken seriously.
Also, your coming up with them to make more money on the iPhone by WASTING money to design accessories almost none of their tens of millions of customers will buy
and you think it'll make it be taken seriously and make it sell more...being the most popular cellphone in america (cellphone, not just smartphone), I doubt they're too concerned about not selling enough units.
Apple has a fairly substantial market share with A SINGLE DEVICE. So that single device, is pretty much owning souls in the sales department.
Wouldn't mind having an extra battery... but I dont think it will ever happen Apple seems more set in their ways. I guess what I would rather see is someone build a better phone. Something along the lines of the iPhone but a little thicker with a decent battery and built a little tougher...
I must be in the minority here, but I personally agree with Apple's policy on this.
Once Apple allowed the user to replace his own batteries, there would be tens of third-party vendors selling replacement batteries. Many of them would not have the same quality that the Apple factory battery does. Quality-related accidents would most certainly occur.
I can easily see Apple wanting to avoid situations like that.
Once Apple allowed the user to replace his own batteries, there would be tens of third-party vendors selling replacement batteries. Many of them would not have the same quality that the Apple factory battery does. Quality-related accidents would most certainly occur.
I can easily see Apple wanting to avoid situations like that.
This is true. but is Apple stops producing the iPhone and it is such a hit wouldn't that open the door for another manufacturer to possibly bring something better tot he table? I mean they certainly would not bring anything worse, its evolution of a product
Nothing better or nothing on the market better? I mean all the people working on the iPhone currently would have to go somewhere. I would think that the Cell Phone industry is kind of like the Car industry... we have the 3rd version of the iPhone in our pockets... but the 4th, 5th, 6th and even 7th versions are out there on drawingboards and in R&D labs. I think we will see something in the future that truely rivals the iPhone. Similar in UI but away from apple and the mac world