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Apple claims to be the leader of the smart phone pack when it comes to battery life. In a press release yesterday, Apple claimed that the iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.
Quite like the ultra competitive embedded CPU business, the battery segment happens to be the hot bed of innovation. This announcement is reminiscent of what happened with the iPods. The Gen 5.5 iPods had considerably more battery life that its Gen 5 ancestors, albeit with a brighter display and a little lighter in weight.
This seems to indicate that the OEM battery manufacturers for Apple have probably improved their batteries. This could also be coupled with CPU (Most likely an ARM core, quite like the iPods) throttling improvements to the OS Kernel, by Apple. Unlike most smart phones available in the market, iPhone’s battery cannot be swapped with a freshly charged battery by the user; however that should be compensated with 8 long hours of talk time.
Apple claims that there has never been a phone like iPhone and to prove this, they have provide a neat comparison chart which compares iPhone with other popular smart phones like N95, Samsung Blackjack, Blackberry Curve 8300 and Palm Treo 750.
With just 10 days left, Apple also revealed that they’ve upgraded iPhone’s entire top surface from plastic to optical-quality glass for superior scratch resistance and clarity.
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wrote, on June 19th, 2007
Sounds exciting! Any word on how much is it going to cost (both in and out of India)?
wrote, on June 19th, 2007
Oooww… This sounds interesting, Thilak! It make me down now…. I’ve just bought N73!!
iPhone looks really good on me! May be I should auction my N73! hehe
wrote, on June 20th, 2007
What about the camera? iPhone has a 2 MP camera I think. A normal camera.
wrote, on June 20th, 2007
SJK: $499 for and $599 in US, no idea in India.
Ken Xu: Yeah, same feeling on my side, but I think by the time iPhone arrives here in India. N95 will already be outdated, so I don’t have to auction it. In any case, all the glitters is not gold, so we should cautiously wait and see the goods and bads of the iPhone before actually purchasing it.
Phalgun: 2 Megapixels seems to be a standard these days and I believe that should be enough for any cellphone. Cellphones can never compete with Digital Cameras and I have a first hand experience.
wrote, on June 20th, 2007
OH, I’m sure we’re going to have a lot of comparison charts like this over the coming months. It’s amazing to think that this is just the 1st generation of the iPhone too.