iPhone Problems - Touch Screen Typing, 5 hour Battery Life

iPhone Problems – Touch Screen Typing, 5 hour Battery Life

11 jun 2007

The biggest issue with the iPhone is not the hefty price tag but the battery life, the touch screen and absence of a keyboard. While Apple says that iPhone battery will survive your 5 hours of web surfing / talking / music / video play, there’s no option to swap the drained battery with another fully charged battery since the batteries are sealed inside the iPhone body just like the iPod.

The biggest issue with the iPhone is not the hefty price tag but the battery life, the touch screen and absence of a keyboard.

While Apple says that iPhone battery will survive your 5 hours of web surfing / talking / music / video play, there’s no option to swap the drained battery with another fully charged battery since the batteries are sealed inside the iPhone body just like the iPod.

Another problem is the much hyped iPhone touch screen as Dan Frommer puts it:

Many BlackBerry users, once familiar with the keyboard, can type without looking. Can you thumb out a text message on an iPhone screen without undivided attention? Will it work in the rain? Or if you’re wearing a bandage? Will it scratch, as the iPod screens have been infamous for? Link

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Maria C

I bought the iPhone at Apple SLC Store, I activated, its a great device, BUT… still has a few glitches, it gets too hot during use (even when its unplugged), the battery drains really fast and takes for ever to charge and some other little things.
Note: I returned it to Apple on the 3rd day, It was a hassle to cancel and to return it.
Apple wanted to charge a 10% re-stocking fee which I found ridiculous, ofcourse I did no paid it.
AT&T made me send them a copy of the returned receipt on order to cancel and to credit my account, (if cancel within tree days the $36 activation fee its credited back)
TechGeek

Anyone who just bought a “ginnie pig iPhone” is foolish (it should still be considered BETA). I’m gonna learn from everyone elses mistakes. Eventually Apple should create a 2nd gen, fixing most of the bugs found . After the product has saturated the market enough, within 6 months to a year it will probably be lower than the origional price. Not to mention at&t servers almost crashed on the evening of Jun 29th due to nationwide overload.

So why pay 5/600 now for a fluke 1st gen, or wait it out a few months and get a near flawless 2gen for less, when both the phone itself and network compatibility has improved. Hopefully it may be open to other more reliable cell carriers down the road too.

It’ll be like the iPods. First you paid more for less GB and lower res. Now you pay less for a substantially better quality product.
Sharyn

The activiation on both my iPhone and my husband’s iPhone went very smoothly. No problems there. However, starting yesterday, my phone has started acting up. I’m unable to unlock it for incoming calls. The “slide to unlock” feature no longer works at any time. The only way I can get into the phone is to flip the ringer on/off switch on the side of the phone. Sometimes that works…sometimes not. The iPod part of it is also malfunctioning. It will only play about 2 or three songs on my playlists then shuts down, even with a completely full charge. It has also started randomly calling people in my contact list while laying on my desk untouched. I’m beginning to think it’s possessed…. Back to the Apple Store I go. I knew I should have waited for the bugs to get worked out before buying one…..
bianca smith

Screen isn’t responding! After switching my service over and canning my old phone, this happens? After shelling out all that money? The stupid screen doesn’t work now? The problem of Sharyn’s is exactly what’s going on with my phone.

:(
bianca smith

Okay I just figured it out—- if you are experiencing the same problem I had, just RESTORE the iphone. Which sucks… because you lose everything that was stored in it. But at least it works again.

Okay, so I’m a guinee pig. Joke’s on me. :p
OHio User

On my 3rd Iphone. First one got too hot after a 30 minute call, I had to get off the phone it was bothering my ear and hand to continue to hold it. Second one the – my clients could hear me, and I could not hear them. 3rd phone got too hot again after a 20 minute call. Can you get an I phone that does not do this? My cell is a business phone and I had not seen this ever on a site as a problem.
ifchyd

my iphone has touch sensitive problem,it doesnt act as i touch but does nonsense,any solution
ifchyd

my dailing pad on iphone has problem, No 4,5,6 does not respond any suggestion please.iphone v 1.1.4

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