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Originally Posted by Laurens
The guy at the start and the end didn't have much to say and he didn't look very comfortable either.
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I got the impression that he just kept flipping into "Marketing Mode" every time he opened his mouth. The other annoying thing was his use of "teenage" words.. "Cool!" "Awesome" "Neat", and whatever else. Come on, you're a product manager, talk in terms people understand. People don't buy $500 phones because they're "Cool" or "Awesome", they buy them (and it truly is an investment), because they solve a problem that they have.
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The question about battery life was stupid to begin with: as anyone knows, this depends on the hardware configuration and the actual usage (i.e. playing MP3/video, brightness settings, etc.) There's no way the guy could've answered this. At least he tried to give an impression.
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I completely disagree. He dodged the question about the power consumption and battery life with his "bluetooth on the plane" answers.
He said it lasted the whole flight to San Diego. From where? Los Angeles? Chicago? France? Were you typing on it the whole time? Or did you just have it "On" in your tray? A completely useless answer that gives zero indication of actual battery life. Besides, at that altitude (assuming more than a 45-minute hop), your phone isn't polling for towers, causing more battery life to get sucked out of it. Did he turn off the phone piece and just leave it as a portable doc-writing tool?
Not enough information to be useful.
My Nokia 3650 lasts about 5 days on standby (bluetooth headset about 3 days on standby), on a chiclet-thin battery wafer. Does the next generation phone last 1/3 as much, because it has "active background polling" on all the time and bluetooth and a faster processor and higher dpi screen and 3D games and so on? If so, I don't want it, and I'd wager to guess most other people don't either. You're not always within an hour of a charging cradle, so unless it can last a full day on one single charge, it is still satisfying a niche market.