iPhone Battery FUD Corrections

Quoted from Alex Taylor’s linked item, Steve Jobs Is A Battery Fiend, from a few weeks ago:

The lithium polymer battery on the iPhone does not come out and wears out after 300 to 400 charges

That sounds audacious! Yet, if one were to do actual research and go to Apple’s very own website, one would come across this contradicting bit of info:

Each time you complete a charge cycle, it diminishes battery capacity slightly, but you can put notebook, iPod, and iPhone batteries through many charge cycles before they will only hold 80% of original battery capacity.

So, as opposed to your hypothetical iPhone’s lithiom ion battery being a suitable doorstop replacement after roughly two years of use (a rather bold claim), it turns out that it’ll only retain 80% of its original battery life…

Here’s Steve Johnson’s rebuttal to Nocera’s incredibly flawed piece of pseudo-journalism apropos the iPhone’s unremovable battery (just like how the iPod has an unremovable battery…).

Steve Johnson:

How ludicrous and superficial — not to mention consumer unfriendly — to think that people might like a smartphone that’s signficantly lighter and thinner than the competition!

For an extended correction of the media’s FUD, check out Macworld’s comprehensive article, The truth about iPhone battery lifespan.