After making a lot of customers very anxious as to whether the iPhone would have any sort of battery life, Apple has assuaged some fears with new battery life numbers. Here’s the breakdown:

• Talk time: 8 hours
• Standby time: 250 hours
• Internet use: 6 hours
• Video playback: 7 hours
• Audio playback: 24 hours

Now, AppleInsider is reporting on some talk of iPhone battery life by frequent Apple analyst Shaw Wu from American Technology Research that says these numbers are optimistic, but what company doesn’t offer the best-case battery life numbers? Even if we make our expectations more realistic, it’s looking like the iPhone will at least be no worst than the majority of phones in the same product category.

One thing we would like to see, though, is some connectivity to allow the iPhone to be powered while on an airplane for in-flight music, movies, etc. Hopefully that will just be a matter of time and a company will take advantage of this ‘third party opportunity.’

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