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Fuzzy Logic Behold the upgraded iPhone, even before June 29 release
Fuzzy Logic Behold the upgraded iPhone, even before June 29 release | Behold the upgraded iPhone, even before June 29 release |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Apple also says that the iPhone offers 250 hours of standby, a detail Jobs left out of the Macworld keynote completely. Apple has done the math and says this is more than 10 days of standby time, although it’s obvious that if you use the iPhone to make a number of phone calls during the day, listen to music throughout the day as well, do a bit of web surfing and send a few emails, and watch some video, battery life will be much less as the battery is taxed with all those digital activities. Of course, Apple spins it all positively, which you’d expect. Steve Jobs said in Apple’s statement of the 18th of June that: "With 8 hours of talk time, and 24 hours of audio playback, iPhone’s battery life is longer than any other ‘Smartphone’ and even longer than most MP3 players. We’ve also upgraded iPhone’s entire top surface from plastic to optical-quality glass for superior scratch resistance and clarity. There has never been a phone like iPhone, and we can't wait to get this truly magical product into the hands of customers starting just 11 days from today.” Apple’s statement also includes a chart comparing a brief set of the iPhone’s specifications compared with the Nokia N95, the Samsung BlackJack, the BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the Palm Treo 750. All the comparisons seem correct, save for Apple’s assertion that the Nokia N95 does not offer Wi-Fi. Indeed, it does offer Wi-Fi 802.11 b and g. We tried calling Apple’s US based PR people to point this out, but no-one answered. When we checked, it was 7.35am their time, so no-one’s there yet. Yes, we could have sent an email but phone calls are so cheap, why not call? We’ll try again later to let them know, although we suspect others may have already alerted them to this tiny factoid. Update: We have checked Apple's site again, a couple of hours after originally posting this sotry, and the N95's Wi-Fi status has now been changed to 'Yes' - it's good to see they quickly fixed the error. Also, Apple noticeably neglected to mention that the N95 offers both 3G and 3.5G capabilities, while the iPhone is stuck in a world of slower 2.75G EDGE speeds, which when there's no Wi-Fi is the only way you can connect to the Internet from almost anywhere. So… the iPhone has the screen we thought it would have from day one, and battery life has been increased to what sounds impressively longer than before. It's a pity Jobs didn't surprise us with the announcement that the iPhone is really a 3G/3.5G device, but we know he has it planned for future iPhones, as he stated at January's Macworld. But the extended battery life is certainly good news: let’s hope the battery life does indeed live up to these new claims, as we all await the world’s most anticipated digital media and communications device in living memory: the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone. {moscomment}
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