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Consumer-friendly material? As opposed to what? Something that electrocutes you? The iPhone 3GS battery is not really consumer-unfriendly, it's just hard to a

by zweben 16y ago

Consumer-friendly material? As opposed to what? Something that electrocutes you? The iPhone 3GS battery is not really consumer-unfriendly, it's just hard to access. iPhone 3GS battery: http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/sRE6GIaYuMouSGsY.huge http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/sRE6GIaYuMouSGsY.huge

whalesalad 16y ago
Yes you're right. But.. you probably wouldn't find any of the batteries on the shelf in an AT&T store looking like that (http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg) I was implying that the battery in the leaked photos looks like it's the kind you can remove from your phone. Coated in plastic, with a barcode, serial number, etc... the opposite of what you would find inside a traditional iPhone. That's part of what leads me to believe that these are fake, because I don't see Apple moving towards a device with a removable battery any time soon. TL;DR you linked to an internal battery, which is not what you see in the photos of the leaked iPhone 4G. What you see is something more on the lines of what you might buy for your Nexus One (or other device with a removable battery). But, alas, if this is just an internal testing machine for Apple purposes only, I suppose something with a removable battery might make sense.
- joezydeco 16y ago
  When you're building a prototype device, you usually tag everything and anything so you can track various problems. You might put 4-5 different batteries from different vendors in there to see which one performs better, or if one explodes you can track it back to the vendor and lot #. So if this a prototype phone then yeah, you're probably gonna see labels and tags on it that you don't see on a production device. I'm not taking a side yet on if these photos are real, but in the CE world you see something like this a lot.

by zweben 16y ago

whalesalad 16y ago

Yes you're right. But.. you probably wouldn't find any of the batteries on the shelf in an AT&T store looking like that (http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg) I was implying that the battery in the leaked photos looks like it's the kind you can remove from your phone. Coated in plastic, with a barcode, serial number, etc... the opposite of what you would find inside a traditional iPhone. That's part of what leads me to believe that these are fake, because I don't see Apple moving towards a device with a removable battery any time soon. TL;DR you linked to an internal battery, which is not what you see in the photos of the leaked iPhone 4G. What you see is something more on the lines of what you might buy for your Nexus One (or other device with a removable battery). But, alas, if this is just an internal testing machine for Apple purposes only, I suppose something with a removable battery might make sense.

joezydeco 16y ago
When you're building a prototype device, you usually tag everything and anything so you can track various problems. You might put 4-5 different batteries from different vendors in there to see which one performs better, or if one explodes you can track it back to the vendor and lot #. So if this a prototype phone then yeah, you're probably gonna see labels and tags on it that you don't see on a production device. I'm not taking a side yet on if these photos are real, but in the CE world you see something like this a lot.