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Palm was very successful with its Treo 600, and one of the major improvement’s they made to the Treo 600’s successor (the Treo 650) was a user-replaceable battery. The concept of the user-replaceable battery is something very important to all smartphone users. Often, your smartphone will be used away from your home or office (hence why you are using a cell phone and not a land line); this results in a lack of electricity available to charge your device. When battery technology has been pushed to the limit, the only solution for long battery life while away from the home or office is to carry multiple batteries.

This is where the problem occurs; the Apple iPhone does NOT have a user replaceable battery. Uh-oh. Oops! Apple had to forget something. Now, when you take your iPhone with you on a long trip, away to your cottage, or on business and you don’t want to carry a charger along, you will essentially be screwed. You will not have the option to change your battery when you run out of juice.

Look for this to be improved upon in future revisions of iPhone.

Apple has had its engineers working on this iPhone for a very long time, so it is hard to determine if maybe they know something we don’t. Maybe there is a top secret reason why Apple chose not to make the battery user-replacable on a device like the iPhone. The other obvious problem with a non-user-replaceable battery, aside from not being able to carry backups on the road, is ‘what happens when the battery life degrades on the iPhone?’
Will you have to toss your iPhone and get a new one? Brilliant thinking on Apple’s part.

written by iPhone News Team

iPhone News sources suggest that Rogers Wireless will carry the iPhone in Canada. The expected date for iPhone’s arrival in Canada is late fall 2007.

Rogers Wireless declined to comment on the story.

It is unclear how successful the iPhone will be in Canada, where mobile data prices are much more expensive than in the US. Also, there is a lack of city-wide wifi hot spots in Canada which renders the iPhone’s built in WiFi useless in most of Canada’s rural areas. Hopefully Rogers will include new, less expensive data packages with the iPhone and realize the potential for their company to excel in this market.

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Only a few weeks after the release if the iPhone and there is already speculation on future models. Following the iPod model sequence, there has been an iPhone Nano and an iPhone Shuffle model created. In essence, each model is the exact same as the regular iPhone, but slightly shrunk. There are two separate predictions for the iPhone shuffle; one based on the older iPod shuffles and one based on the new “clip-on” iPod shuffle.

The iPhone nano is not very likely, and the iPhone shuffle is even less likely- squeezing all that technology into an even smaller package than the current iPhone is a pretty far fetched idea. A possible future iPhone model may include increased internal memory, possibly a 30GB model, but a decrease in form factor for said device is highly unlikely.

Here is fun mockup of the iPhone Shuffle (clip on style).

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