AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:40:28 -0600, Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
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>> Everyone is making too much of this, IMO. With GSM, changing phones is
>> almost as easy as changing socks, and the SIM can easily be placed in an
>> old or loaner phone for the week it'll be at the shop.
>
> Does the iphone have a removable simcard?

Yes, based on Walt Mossberg's Mailbox column this week. You have to use
a paper clip to get access to it.

> How many people will know to keep their old phone handy? (Reminds me of
> AT&T wireless of 2000 where one had to keep their old phone handy to make
> analog calls in fringe digital areas because AT&T was too fucking cheap to
> arrange fallback analog coverage anywhere within 100 miles of a digital
> coverage area)
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>> Plus, in this day and age, peoople don't tend to keep phones long enough
>> for batteries to die! The replacement issue will be a problem for the
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You're really reaching.
> I guess I shouldn't be surprised that nobody expects an iphone
> to last more than a year.

Your batteries last only a year??? My Treo battery is 18 months old,
and going strong.

My wife's Kyocera 6035 has to be 5 years old, and its batteries are
working just fine. Okay, so we swap batteries once a week -- so its
batteries have at least 30 months' of uptime on them, each.