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Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 by mike-cardwell on Monday December 27, 2010 @07:19PM (#2044102)
Whenever I go camping now I have to turn my Android G1 phone off for large periods of time so it will survive the weekend and be available if I need it. Never had this problem with my old mobile phones. They'd last a week or more a lot of the time.

I don't get the obsession with thin phones. I'd much rather have a thicker phone if it lasted 2-3 days instead of 1.

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Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 by billswift on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @11:00AM (#2045762)
I haven't had a smart-phone yet, but I made a similar observation once about antennas - I would much rather have a stub antenna and better reliability than an internal antenna and have to worry about reception. I wonder if there is a market for a really reliable, long battery-life, etc, phone that was maybe the size of a small walkie-talkie?
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Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 by naa42 on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @05:53PM (#2050477)
Take a look at Philips Henium 9@9 series. http://www.asia.philips.com/promos/xenium/en/phone_other.htm...
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Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 by disruptivetech on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @06:38AM (#2045207)
I'm still using my G1 and when I first had it the battery life was terrible to point of me taking it back to the shop to demand another phone. The shop upgraded the software and it has been more reasonable since then. I had one of the first G1's in 2008, so there were still enormous battery issues on new phones even after the iP.
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Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 by bobbyi on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @12:39PM (#2046069)
Why not just bring an extra (charged) battery when you are camping and swap it in when your phone tells you it is low?

Rather than being stuck with the extra weight everywhere you go, you just incur it when you actually will be away from a charger for multiple days.

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