Apple Pits the iPhone against Nokia N95

Apple claims to be the leader of the smart phone pack when it comes to battery life. In a press release yesterday, Apple claimed that the iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.

Quite like the ultra competitive embedded CPU business, the battery segment happens to be the hot bed of innovation. This announcement is reminiscent of what happened with the iPods. The Gen 5.5 iPods had considerably more battery life that its Gen 5 ancestors, albeit with a brighter display and a little lighter in weight.

This seems to indicate that the OEM battery manufacturers for Apple have probably improved their batteries. This could also be coupled with CPU (Most likely an ARM core, quite like the iPods) throttling improvements to the OS Kernel, by Apple. Unlike most smart phones available in the market, iPhone’s battery cannot be swapped with a freshly charged battery by the user; however that should be compensated with 8 long hours of talk time.

Apple claims that there has never been a phone like iPhone and to prove this, they have provide a neat comparison chart which compares iPhone with other popular smart phones like N95, Samsung Blackjack, Blackberry Curve 8300 and Palm Treo 750.

With just 10 days left, Apple also revealed that they’ve upgraded iPhone’s entire top surface from plastic to optical-quality glass for superior scratch resistance and clarity.