Apple today announced that iPhone will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time. Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.
“With 8 hours of talk time, and 24 hours of audio playback, iPhone’s battery life is longer than any other ‘Smartphone’ and even longer than most MP3 players,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We’ve also upgraded iPhone’s entire top surface from plastic to optical-quality glass for superior scratch resistance and clarity. There has never been a phone like iPhone, and we can’t wait to get this truly magical product into the hands of customers starting just 11 days from today.”
iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a revolutionary multi-touch display and pioneering new software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers. iPhone combines three products into one small and lightweight handheld device—a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and the Internet in your pocket with best-ever applications on a mobile phone for email, web browsing and maps. iPhone ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.
iPhone will be available in the US on June 29, 2007 in a 4GB model for $499 and an 8GB model for $599, and will work with either a PC or Mac. iPhone will be sold in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores, and through AT&T’s select retail stores.
“The next “One More Thing®” announcement will be that the touch keyboard has audible and tactile feedback. Or at least one can hope.”
I see no reason it wouldn’t do it, it seems such a very “Apple” thing to do, just like the iPod Click on the clickwheel. I very slight vibration of the device would be cool, too.
My prediction for The Big UnAnnounced Feature™:
iPhone is the Apple TV/Frontrow Universal Remote.
SJ is turning on the anti FUD machine. All of the BSing anal-ists and hedge fund schemers must be fouling their skivies.
Gee, we haven’t heard from stock boy in a long time — I wonder why.
Competitive data charts are so much fun when you get to choose the categories!
I wonder if Steve & Apple didn’t create the whole battery life/scratch FUD myths in the first place, so they could valiantly swoop in and kill it. Think “Syndrome” from The Incredibles. ;P
While this certainly good news, I’m puzzled as to why they wouldn’t have known this months ago when they tested it?!
Nice announcement of “upgrades” that’s been part of manufacturing for probably 6 months. However, “optical-quality” glass screens ABSOLUTELY does NOT mean scratch-proof, as anyone who has expensive eyeglasses or uses glass camera lens protectors know very well. Better than plastic, maybe-I don’t know- but the operative word is scratch-resistant, NOT scratch-proof.
I absolutely love the iPhone, but at $500-$600, there is no way I’m jumping in until 2G, or at least after a few weeks of testing reported on sites like this one.
NIce upgrades, but size of memory is the real problem and so easily resolved by just putting in bigger chips. I wonder if this might be the beginning of more surprises between now and June 29? I sure hope so.
What say you now “FUDMEISTER” and TECHNO NONSAVANT JOHN DVORAK? Big Mac got your tongue?
I would be happy if Apple ups the memory to 8 and 16 and finally says that Flash will be supported on the mobile version of Safari.
MDN word: music. As in it would be music to my ears
SJ rope-a-doped the Apple haters. He let them rant on about the battery issues and the screen marring for months, but now he lowers the boom and blows their FUD into a brown cloud — brown, because …
Good things come to those who wait….until the release of the iphone.
I am sure that the Zune phone will be just as great as the Zune. You and your asian friend should be very happy with one.
Your wait. Our dial. .™
iPhone vs All Others
Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride as opposed to surfing.
Rad!!
Hehehe he said astroturf —
Apple will announce that the iPhone is going to have a bigger capacity (16 and 32 gigs) sometime this week or early next week.
Just wait and see
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It would be cool if an upgrade announcement would come each day between now and the 29th. If so, by the 29th, the media would have it front and center.
Drooling a little while waiting for your poo colored pooTang troll phone, Zune Tang?
You’re eating this thing up and you know it, ZT…it’s our secret.
@ ChrissyOne, You are on a roll today! does that mean that your hung over is over? Keyboard feedback = lower battery life.
Well, FUD-sters. What you gonna come up with now?
Of course, Apple knew and AT&T knew and anyone who received one to test/use (like Eric Schmidt and Walt Mossberg) knew. But altho those people can flash it in front of people, no one else has been allowed to touch it. Now we begin to know why.
This is great marketing on Apple’s part to ratchet up the impulse buying during the first week of availability. There are lots of people on the fence about the iPhone, and these little “upgrades” will entice them to climb on board.
I have a question: With the Google Maps function, how does the iPhone know where it is? I am sure it works like Maps on other phones like Nokia e61 where you have to enter a starting address.
Since it has no GPS (yet) this would have to be the case, right?
@ kk
They get your approximate position based on the nearest cell towers. I have read it’s accurate to something like 150-500 feet. Not good enough for a precise location, but good enough to get you to the right city block.
@ Crabapple
I’ve had HANG overs but never a HUNG over.
But I never said I was hung over, I said I was drunk.
I’m half Celt and half Goth, and thus a mighty drinker.
Jay;
I don’t know how old you are, or how much experience you have with glasses, but optical glass IS scratch proof, unless you work in a factory where there’s a lot of diamond dust going round.
Glass cannot be scratched by almost all substances your iPhone is likely to encounter. It may get BROKEN, but not scratched. Mopdern glasses that need scratch-resistance coatings are NOT glass – they are of the modern, advanced plastic variety.
So don’t worry about scraches – but don’t DROP that puppy!
“With the Google Maps function, how does the iPhone know where it is?”
Check your iPhone bill carefully.
Every time you use Google Maps your iPhone will call Google headquarters and ask a Google CSR for directions. Standard rates will apply.
Interesting…. I had TWO comments very early on to this that have myseriously dissappeared.
Was it because they were negetive comments towards the choice of glass?
All other wireless handset companies = pwned