Those silly geeks over at PC Magazine have put together an “iPhone Death Watch.” Essentially a countdown timer for your iPhone’s battery, the “watch” ticks off the seconds to the day that your iPhone will die. They say their countdown timer is based on “scientific calculations.”
Don’t take this “Death Watch” seriously folks. As we mentioned before, the battery is not dead after 400 charge-cycles, just reduced to 80% capacity. You’re not likely going to need to replace the batter at such time, but if you want, Apple offers their battery replacement program.
Keep in mind that a charge-cycle is defined by a full discharge followed by a battery-topping refill charge. So, the 400 charge
-cycle estimate is bound to last quite some time. PC Mag estimates that after 675 days, the iPhone’s battery will have such reduced performance that you will likely be looking for replacement.
Honestly, we’re not likely to keep the iPhone for anywhere close to two years, so the battery life problems is something of a non-issue for us. And, we figure most early adopters of the iPhone will be looking to replace it with the next-gen iPhone before the battery craps out.
Still, the “iPhone Death Watch” is pretty amusing. We got a good chuckle out of it.
Check out the countdown timer here.
[Via: The Raw Feed]