You can gab on that iPhone for 8 hours

Caroline McCarthy | Jun 19, 2007

According to Apple, you can ditch your fears over the rumor that the iPhone has 45 minutes of talktime. The company announced Monday that the much-anticipated handset will ship with much better battery life than was expected when it was first announced in January. The iPhone will finally be released, as you probably already know, in the US only on June 29.

The numbers from Apple? The company had initially anticipated that the iPhone battery would allow 5 hours of talktime (though rumors around the blogosphere suggested it was actually much less than that). But now Apple is boasting that it'll last a full 8 hours with a whopping 250 hours of standby time. Apple is also saying that you'll alternately be able to enjoy 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback, or 24 hours of audio playback. That's twice as long as the ultra-efficient iPod shuffle.

A comparison chart from Apple pitting the iPhone against its rivals. (Click to see more comparisons)
Additionally, the touchscreen of the iPhone has been upgraded from plastic to optical glass to make it clearer and more scratch-proof. So, with that and the extended battery life, maybe you can take your iPhone on wilderness excursions.

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