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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If it's from Apple, the battery life will be awful. Apple blew that big time with the iPod Touch and iPhone. Apple makes good looking hardware with poor performance in the real world.
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I don't have a clue what you're talking about. Really, I don't... for everything the ipod/iphone does it gets incredible battery life. I've been using an iPhone since launch (1st and 2nd models) and the battery life is great. I can go days without a charge and I listen to music all the time, browse the web a lot, etc. If I DON'T use those features a lot, it can go on for days and days without running down - just like any other phone I've had. And the iPod touch is even better! It's an LCD, so it uses juice more than an eInk device but compared to every other phone or device I've ever had (and I've had everything from old school nokias, samsungs, palms, and MS mobile devices) it blows them all out of the water for how much use I get per charge.
I think this may be an issue of weird expectations, John.. no offense. But I don't know of comparable products that get BETTER battery life. And I do mean comparable - not "does everything an iPhone can do, but about 1/6th as efficiently and looking like crap while it does it." My old Samsung A320 could do almost all the main things my iPhone can do - but besides talking, I wouldn't want to have to do them on the device (and often would rather just not!)
Their laptops are also very efficient. My Macbook gets almost 4 hours per charge, and that's a lot less than the new one coming out that gets something like 8 or so.
Obviously, power consumption will be a necessary consideration with a device like that, which may be part of the reason they haven't came out with one yet. But I see no reason to go "Apple can't handle power issues."
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As an ereading device for 8 hours of use? Yes, it wouldn't have power for that probably. But it's not MADE for that, and more to the point - there isn't much that could that uses an LCD screen that size! But it gets about 36 hrs of music play, 6 of video!