ktm97
Well-known member
I think the battery is a big concern, not being able to change it out and then having to send it in for replacement would not work for me.
Archie, you are posting on a Treo website and you have the chutzpah to say that you are glad Apple chose to engineer a built in (non-swappable) battery. Let me be the first to tell you that you are alone in that opinion. The Treo 600 drove everyone NUTS with its non-swappable battery.
surur,
Now I ask you surur, how can you say this is the same kind (or anywhere even approaching being near the same kind) of battery as what Apple uses in their devices.
, it's also not called the SPECULATE WILDLY ABOUT THE iPhone AND TAKE ALL STATEMENTS AS FACT FORUM.
- a device that a large customer base will upgrade every year or so when the newer version is released. I'll go out on a limb here and predict that it'll well exceed all your worst case scenarios and actually be usable...
Yes Archie, we all fail to be amazed at the "engineering feat that Apple has accomplished" They really bucked the trend of making cell phones thinner and lighter then things that came out a year ago (adding 0.1 mm to the thickness of the Moto Q while using old radio technology is light years ahead of the competition).I can't believe that people still fail to grasp the engineering feat that Apple has accomplished here in regards to power management and engineering.
You would think the "miracle workers" in Apples' engineering department could figure out a way to include a removable battery without "losing a greater overall percentage of its mass," wouldn't you? Even the mediocre engineers at Motorola figured that part out. Moore's Law would lead most people to believe Apple's design is at best evolutionary (given the 2 years newer status it has over the Moto Q design or the 6 year advantage over the seemingly unchanging Treo design) - if not a step backwards. Where's the GPS? Where's the removable storage? Were they even trying to be anything more than "pretty?"Yes Archie, we all fail to be amazed at the "engineering feat that Apple has accomplished"
Well... if you have ever looked at the device you will be able to note that it IS Zirconia!!
See, besides the Zirconia body thing you mentioned (which while nice, companies attempting to improve reception is also not a new advancement, they just have yet-another-method) you're just jumping back into the UI features while I was discussing hardware and Apple's supposed amazing engineering which you proclaimed.You fail to grasp the extent to which Apple has gone in designing (AND innovating) the iPhone. I have a few more for you.
• Zirconia body to allow for superior radio reception with the antenna enclosed — also giving it a durable shell.
No one has thought to do this and the fact that Apple has and you choose to ignore it reveals much.
• Visual expansion technologies. The OS can expand an area of the touch screen display proximate the location of the touch. This includes any portion of the graphical information like windows, fields, text, dialog boxes, menus, icons, buttons, cursors, UI controls, etc.
So say for example, when your finger is placed over a particular window, field, dialog box, menu, icon, button, tool bar, user interface element, scroll bar, scroll wheel, slider bar, dial, control box, or footnote (all of which have been listed in Apple patents), all of the element or only part of it, as appropriate, is expanded so that they can be easily used by your finger. I have spoken before of this ability in editing text for example; holding your finger over the portion of text you wish to edit to get a blow up/expansion bubble to precisely place the cursor to backspace or insert text or whatever.
I have seen all of these aspects in action and can tell you that there is no speculation in their inclusion of the iPhone.
I mention these additions not because I feel it necessary to prop the iPhone but more so to see how you will discount them as you have with other things that I mention like Apple's use of proximity detection, WHICH, no one else has thought to do.
I am really quite amused by your failure to acknowledge Apple's accomplishments with your sarcastic tones.
No.Archie, dont you think Steve would have touted this wonderful innovation as he did with all the other insignificant touches?
Funny that you are "SPECULATING WILDLY ABOUT THE IPHONE" in the same post
Seriously, speculation is all there is, because no one has seen/heard/looked at an iPhone yet. It's all you do, it's all I do, it's all everyone does right now. If you're gonna criticize, be fair about it.
I will reitierate, you assuming that the iPhone battery will last all day is VERY optimistic of you. I have a hard time believing that I will be able to watch video's, listen to music, surf the web, read and send emails, and make phone calls ALL DAY in one charge cycle every day. Of course there are days that I hardly use my phone, but there are also plenty of days where I use it a lot.
BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT, to make a long story short...
You clearly do not see why Apple is making this phone.
No.
You clearly do not see why Apple is making this phone.
You just don't get it and there is nothing I can say that will make you understand or admit it.