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Here’s one example. Apparently RIM’s employees collectively thought it was impossible (to achieve the stated battery life); I think they count as experts: > R
by comex 8y ago
Here’s one example. Apparently RIM’s employees collectively thought it was impossible (to achieve the stated battery life); I think they count as experts:
> RIM had a complete internal panic when Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, a former employee revealed this weekend. The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage, and to have made outlandish claims about its features. Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was.lying.on.iphone.in.2007/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was...
- oldgradstudent 8y agoI had the first iPhone. Let me just say that the official battery life was somewhat aspirational.
- teraflop 8y agoThe comments summarized in that article seem to no longer be available, but I have a hard time believing the summary is accurate. When the iPhone was released, there were already PDAs on the market with screens the same size or bigger.
- URSpider94 8y agoThe devices at the time with larger screens were larger, heavier devices that had shorter battery life. Nobody made a pocketable device with a screen that size.
- ceejayoz 8y agoPDAs that could run a processor powerful enough for actual desktop-quality Webkit, a cellular radio, etc.?
- megablast 8y agoI had an iPaq at the time, had maybe 4 hours battery life, and that was with wifi used sparingly. No 2g or 3g was possible. Slow processor. Crappy screen.
- MBCook 8y agoThat was exactly the anecdote I was thinking of.
- sjg007 8y agoIt's all in the power saving software.