Impressive. But what would it be with texting once every 10 minutes while listening to music and spending about an hour on the phone through a bluetooth headset? Thats more something I would do.
~Lordbob
I don't have an iPhone, so I don't know really, but considering up to 5 hrs of actual talk time on 3G (probably the most resource taxing thing you'll ever do), even that intensive usage would allow the battery to last for 1-3 days.
But you'd get roughly that without the music, because music is so relatively cheap in resource use.
That's not great, but I don't see it as bad enough to warrant purchasing a relatively bulky $200-300 player for just music and short video clips. Even if it is superior, it has to completely leapfrog all the competition to make that additional weight, complexity, and expense worth it. And besides if charging once every two days is too much, buy a external battery pack case. Would be cheaper and simpler than two dedicated devices.
The only market I see for this is for people who don't have a phone capable of playing music reasonably well, which is a shrinking. Much like PDAs and PocketPCs have all but been killed by smartphones, so will mp3 players.
This kind of thing happens all the time in technology, once functionality matures enough to be a commodity, it is integrated into simpler, smaller, all-in-one devices. (For similar reasons, I think with the advent of SSDs and other technological advances, laptops will start closing the performance gap with desktops within the next 2-3 years, and the desktop will continue on its slow relegation to professionals and niche gaming)
