Apple provided iPhone Comparo with Increased Battery Life/Glass Display Announcement

Apple announced that the iPhone will have a talk time of up to 8 hours. This is far longer than the 5 hours preliminarily announced back in January. In addition, the standby time is up to 250 hours, Internet use is up to 6 hours from 5, video playback is up to 7 hours rather than 5 and audio playback is up to 24 hours rather than 16. This is a huge change that should remove some of the worries of battery performance.

Included in Apple's announcement was the news that the iPhone will have an optical-grade glass top-side display surface rather than one made from plastic to improve the quality of the iPhone and to increase its scratch resistance.

Apple also release a chart comparing the iPhone's specs and performance with its current main competitors. Here is the comparison chart:

The iPhone comes out on top, of course. [Bill Fox]