Apple iPhone - Great Battery Life, Slippery and Hard to Hold

By now, everyone and their grandma is expecting the Apple iPhone to launch on Cingular/AT&T with a 40 minute battery life. First, Dvorak starting talking smack on the iPhone. Then we get “reports” straight out of the component integrator, FoxConn, that the iPhone’s design falls short in terms of performance. But, would Apple really launch a product with such critical flaws? According to MacScoop, a source “we can trust but we can’t name now says,” that the reports are unfounded; Apple’s iPhone is healthy and ready to go.

The tipster reports that the official 5 hour talk/video/web time and 16 hour music playback time are reliable. In fact, after an in-depth examination of the iPhone, the tipster was confident that consumers would be surprised by the battery performance.

The only drawback that the tipster noted was the slipperiness of the materials used on the Apple iPhone’s casing. This resulted in a phone that seemed more prone to slipping out of the hand (similar to the feel of an iPod). Did you just cringe at the mental image of dropping a brand-new, glossy $600 phone on the concrete? Yea, we did too.

Now that’s a problem we’d gladly trade for a healthy dose of battery juice.

via: macscoop