January 12, 2007
Apple phone
There's one thing that confuses me amid all the "backlash" against the iPhone: people are complaining that you can't remove the battery.
The only time I've ever removed the battery on my 'ordinary' phones is when they crash. Assuming there's some other way to do a hard reset of the iPhone, why would people actually want a removable battery?
I'm sure there'll be third-party battery life extending plugins via the dock connector (pictured), and the phone will be obsolete before the battery becomes useless anyway.
So, what gives?
Posted by savs at January 12, 2007 12:26 PMWell,
one reason why I do like removeable batteries, is that in the 1,5 year before my Ipods harddisk totally broke, I had to wait for about 10 times to let the batteries exhaust on a crashed screen, because the ingenious reset mechanism was even stuck. I have cursed a lot only because of the presumtuous "we do not need mechanical switch off" behavior. I am glad the Ipod died! :-)
Ard
Posted by: ard at January 16, 2007 8:11 AM