Wow, are you serious? Do you live under a rock?
You can't leave the iPhone because no other phone can achieve battery life like the iPhone? My BlackBerry could go 2 days on a charge with heavy use - including game play, push services, etc. Heck my son's Droid gets better battery life than my iPhone4.
That said, I am not bashing the iPhone at all, and the battery life is much improved... but don't get carried away with it... the battery life is better than any iPhone before, but there are other quality phones with battery life as good or better.
Lol ohhh k, I think there's a misunderstanding here.
First, I said it's probably ONE of the biggest reasons. Not the only reason. Example: the Evo is an awesome phone... I'm sure that would be a very comparable phone for me to switch to... if I would be alright with a quarter of the battery life. It's literally terrible compared to the iPhone and anyone can tell you that.
If it was all about battery life I'd go back to the old Nokia flip phones my parents (try to) use and get a week's worth of usage/standby out of them. That's obviously not my biggest concern.
I'm not even going to comment on the Blackberry comment. That's comparing apples to oranges.
Does your son have the Droid Incredible? Just for comparison sake - my friend has the Incredible which I also think is a really nice phone. However, he said he was able to achieve just about the same battery specs as advertised.
Incredible - Usage Time: Up to 312Minutes/Standby Time: Up to 146Hours
iPhone 4 - Talk time: Up to 7 hours on 3G/Up to 14 hours on 2G/Standby time: Up to 300 hours
My biggest thing is the overall experience. I've been using the iPhone since day one 3 years ago, and have had every one since then. I've seen it come a long way and have thoroughly enjoyed the changes, updates, and revisions. My point I was trying to make is that to get a phone with equivalent battery life, a fantastic touch screen (b/c most Droid touchscreens aren't QUITE as accurate, very good, but not quite), an
awesome OS, more Apps than I could possibly imagine, easy updates, good syncing capabilities, etc etc. I can't find all of these features on another phone out there. Every single Droid that comes out everybody dubs the newest "iPhone killer" and then 3 months later it's gone and no one knows anything about it. There isn't a "whole package" that's as good as the iPhone 4 and there surely has not been an "iPhone killer" yet... there's no attacking here that's just my point I'm trying to convey.