Quote from S2007S:
The cellphones in the U.S. are about 2 years behind what they have in Japan. This phone is being extremely OVER HYPED at this point, im bullish on AAPL but I think there is just too much talk going on about this phone.
I was listening to some show and the mentioned battery life being approx 5 hours, I dont think thats enough. IF your going to develop something this big give it at least a 7-10 hours of battery life. Also the networks in the US are still way behind, still having problems rolling out 3G.
I feel as if I've already done this in another thread, but I just want to correct your misconception that apple's phone only has 5 hour battery LIFE. In fact, the 5 hours is of talk/video/browsing/etc. time. The audio playback time is SIXTEEN (caps for emphasis) hours. The standby time wasn't released, but I assume it is something much, much, muuch longer than 16 hours.
Finally, if you go on the PALM website and look up their newest Treo, the 680 I believe, it only has 4 hours of talk time. an hour less than the iPhone. Compare the screens and the quality of the picture - I could be wrong, but I feel apple's battery blows everything else away.