At 08 Jul 2007 21:18:38 +0000 AZ Nomad wrote:

> Does the iphone have a removable simcard?

Yes. It's a GSM phone.

> How many people will know to keep their old phone handy?
Some will, some won't. Those that won't can use a loaner.

> >Plus, in this day and age, peoople don't tend to keep phones long
enough
> >for batteries to die!
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You're really reaching.
> I guess I shouldn't be surprised that nobody expects an iphone
> to last more than a year.


In my experience, modern Li-Ion Batteries last at least twor three years.
I have a four year old PPC (Audiovox Maestro) with a non user-
replaceable battery still humming along. I just bought my first
replacement battery for my Nokia 8290 (my first GSM phone, and my first
phone with a Li-Ion, purchased Oct. 2001) earlier this year. It's
battery gave up the ghost about two years ago but when I found a good
deal on an OEM battery on eBay I brought the 8290 out of retirement for
old times' sake. You can borrow it if your iPhone needs a battery
replacement! ;-)

Again, I don't have (or want) an iPhone. And, all else being equal, I
prefer user-replaceable batteries. My point was only that people are
making too big a deal about this. The iPhone has far more serious flaws,
IMHO, than a soldered-in battery!




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