"bat" <bat@bats.com> wrote:

> H> Battery life
> H> Yes, the iPhone has a longer rated talk time than many other smart
> H> phones, but in our CNET lab tests, we've had quite a few devices give us
> H> that much juice or more. The Cingular 8525, the I-mate Jaq, and Nokia's
> H> N95, E61, and E62 each had eight hours of talk time battery life; the
> H> RIM BlackBerry Curve and the Sony Ericsson P990i went for 8.5 hours; the
> H> T-Mobile Wing offered 9 hours; and the Nokia N73 lasted 9.5 hours.
>
> H> Yet the iPhone could surpass all of the above.
>
> Isn't it remarkable that first there go descriptions of all these whistles -
> music, and internet, and video camera, etc., but then battery life is
> measured by talk time. How about listening/surfing/shooting time? or they
> know that after the brief period of excitment, the whistles are naturally
> forgotten and 99.9% of the users are back to talking-only?
>
> Seriously, I wonder, are there many cellphone users who on regular basis use
> the phone for anything but talking? I occasionally shoot a photo, once in a
> month perhaps, but I don't recall myself using organizer, calculator, voice
> memo, and so on. Once you recall it's there, the thought is "cool, I should
> be using it more", but somehow it never materializes. Wondering, is others'
> usage much different?

but that's because you are still trying to use a Windows PC. On a Mac
all that stuff is integrated into the OS, so when you sync, everything
syncs. Pretty cool, too bad Windows can't do it... without A LOT of
extra work.

So get a Mac and you'll start doing it.