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Old 07-27-2007, 08:59 AM
     
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Originally Posted by amirmckelvey View Post
Iphone Fees....

So the Iphone battery will only take between 200-300 charges, then you have to send the iphone to apple, pay them $80, they hold the phone for 3 business days (you are SOL if you send it on a Thursday I guess) and potenially pay them $30 to use a loaner iphone while yours is in the shop getting a new battery.

So for me, when I get home from work, I need to charge my phone (5pm) then I do yard work (new house) and use my phone for a bit more, then charge it on my nightstand when I go to bed. Weekends I probably charge my phones twice a day as well, just incase I am going out that evening so I have a full charge.

300 charges, 2 charges a day, that gives me 150 days or roughly 4 to 5 months of use, then pay apple $80, be w/ out my phone for nearly a week, use my phone for another 4 to 5 months and pay apple another $80...

Apple wants to put What in their mouth??? yeah right.... you have to either have lots of extra money laying around and want to use a toy phone w/ ZERO practicle uses while trying to use the slowest data network to browse the web with no stylus... my fingers kept hitting the wrong web links on web pages.

Anyone wonder why apple only sold just over 100,000 of these the 1st weekend when they thought 500,000 would be the magic number? Well because the Iphone is just a bad product, on a bad carrier for data, and you have to use a bad minute plan.

Other than that, it's great to look at!! ooooooo shinny!! (sarcasim galore)

I'll come back w/ more positivly bad stuff w/ the iphone when I'm done customizing one of my new 3rd party apps on my mogul.
Battery is the LAST reason I returned it. It's 200-400 FULL charges. A typical day is 1/3 of the battery. So that's about 600-1200 charges 2-4 years. Battery on the iPhone is the best i've seen on a PDA phone. I'm sure there will be plenty of 3rd parties that will replace battery cheaper too. This with a bigger brighter, sharper screen. WIFI although uses more power does extremely well. I'd rather have iPhones power management and capacity than have to carry around spare batteries during the day any time. I'll be the first to bash stupid choices Apple made but I'll also credit them where they made good choices. The Battery is perfectly fine. Your comparing battery usage to historically poor PDA devices.
 
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